The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from allowing their voices to be heard by other women, further intensifying its repressive policies against Afghan women’s rights and raising concerns among human rights activists that such new laws could isolate them even further, preventing them from engaging in conversation or forming support networks.
For the first time in British legal history, a man was given a “deterrent sentence” of four and a half years in prison for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage after he was accused of arranging to send a young girl to Iraq.
An Iraqi woman and former sex slave kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) militants a decade ago was freed from Gaza following a complicated operation months in the making that involved the United States as well as Iraq and Israel.
A controversial, fugitive Islamic preacher from India went viral on social media after a video of him having a heated exchange with a girl during his visit to Pakistan emerged where the girl asked the preacher a question about the existence of societal ills, including pedophilia, in Islamic societies.
Two mosques in the United Kingdom were reported to the Charity Commission for recently hosting sermons where they said women should not refuse to have sex with their husbands, adding that a man can hit his wife if she refuses sex and that wives who refuse to have sex with their husbands have no right to receive financial support from their spouses.
A major child sexual abuse scandal involving a huge Islamic business network in Malaysia emerged after authorities rescued hundreds of children from orphanages linked to the conglomerate.
Malaysia: 572 children under age 18 rescued as Islamic group is investigated for sexual assault of children https://t.co/2EIzOWjAcq
A group of British Islamist journalists working for a popular Muslim news website expressed their admiration for the Taliban during a podcast episode where they marked the third anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from the country.
September 16th marked the 2nd anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom protests, which began after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died under police custody after she was arrested for “improperly” wearing the hijab.
The head of a controversial Islamic center in Germany, who allegedly serves as a representative for Iran’s Supreme Leader, appealed his deportation order after German authorities ordered him to leave the country after the center was shut down for promoting Islamist extremism.
Four men believed to be “Islamic Republic loyalists” were arrested in a western German town for attempting to gangrape an Iranian dissident in an attack that shocked the city, according to reports by the German media.
This is horrifying. An Iranian dissident man was gang-raped in Germany by four men who are believed to be Islamic Republic supporters.https://t.co/gNFyfXSCmw
