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Laws Banning Hindu-Muslim Marriages To Fight ‘Love Jihad’ Gain Steam In India

Laws Banning Hindu-Muslim Marriages To Fight ‘Love Jihad’ Gain Steam In India

Several states in India have proposed a new ban on marriages between Hindus and Muslims. The suggested laws come as many in the nation have been gripped by fears that Muslim men are forcing Hindu women to convert in a strategy deemed “love jihad.” According to The Straits Times, several politicians have spoken out about […]

4y ago

Anti-France Protests And Boycotts Sweep The Islamic World After Emmanuel Macron Defends Muhammad Cartoons

Anti-France Protests And Boycotts Sweep The Islamic World After Emmanuel Macron Defends Muhammad Cartoons

Anti-France sentiment has continued to grow and spread across the globe as South Asian Muslims flooded the streets to torch an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron. The 42-year-old leader has faced backlash after he defended the media’s right to publish satirical cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. According to France 24, huge crowds in […]

4y ago

Deadly Clashes Break Out Over Armenia And Azerbaijan’s Borders

Deadly Clashes Break Out Over Armenia And Azerbaijan’s Borders

A deadly clash has broken out along the oil-rich border of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The skirmish has claimed the lives of both military personnel as well as civilians. According to Reuters, at least a dozen people have been killed in the fighting. The area sits along the Nagorno-Karabakh border, which is internationally recognized as part […]

4y ago

Mohammed Hits The Top 10 List Of Boys Names In The U.S. For The First Time Ever

Mohammed Hits The Top 10 List Of Boys Names In The U.S. For The First Time Ever

For the first time ever, the name “Mohammed” (or one of its multiple variant spellings in the Roman alphabet) is one of the Top Ten baby names in the United States, as America’s ever-growing Muslim population tends to bestow that name on firstborn boys. There are few complications to sort out here before getting into […]

5y ago

Daring Saudi Woman Ditches Her Abaya Robe, Walks On The Streets In Stylish Western Outfit In Riyadh

Daring Saudi Woman Ditches Her Abaya Robe, Walks On The Streets In Stylish Western Outfit In Riyadh

While women in Saudi Arabia are strictly required by law to wear an abaya robe over their clothes in public, some daring women in the religiously-conservative country are defying the norms and going out of their way to celebrate their freedom. One such rebel is Mashael Al-Jaloud, a 33-year-old woman whose name is recently trending […]

5y ago

Royal Wedding Was Reportedly Threatened By Mohammed Saleh, Calling Himself ‘The Muslim Prince Of Spain’

Royal Wedding Was Reportedly Threatened By Mohammed Saleh, Calling Himself ‘The Muslim Prince Of Spain’

A Spanish would-be terrorist calling himself “The Muslim Prince Of Spain” allegedly threatened to attack the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, according to emails released on Tuesday by a Crown Court. As The Sun reports, the Royal Wedding took place without a hitch, thanks in no small part to the Herculean security […]

5y ago

Philadelphia Muslim Group Posts Video Of Children Singing About Chopping Off Heads, Lawmaker Wants A ‘Probe’

Philadelphia Muslim Group Posts Video Of Children Singing About Chopping Off Heads, Lawmaker Wants A ‘Probe’

A Philadelphia Muslim group posted a video of children singing about chopping off heads, and now a New York lawmaker wants an investigation, Fox News reports. Last week, as Fox News reported at the time, the Philadelphia chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS) posted a video on its Facebook page in celebration of “Ummah […]

5y ago

US Border Patrol Only Fed Pork Sandwiches To Muslim Detainee For Nearly A Week

US Border Patrol Only Fed Pork Sandwiches To Muslim Detainee For Nearly A Week

Adnan Asif Parveen, a Muslim detainee at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Port Isabel, Texas, was recently held in custody despite having a permit allowing him to work in the United States. As HuffPost detailed in an article published on February 27, despite Parveen’s religious dietary restrictions, the young man claims […]

5y ago

Ayatollah Khomeini Issued A Fatwa Calling For Salman Rushdie’s Death 30 Years Ago & Died 4 Months Later

Ayatollah Khomeini Issued A Fatwa Calling For Salman Rushdie’s Death 30 Years Ago & Died 4 Months Later

It was 30 years ago today that then-Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, in the wake of the widespread controversy surrounding the publication of author Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses, issued a fatwa ordering devout Muslims to kill Rushdie for the offense of blaspheming against Islam and the prophet Muhammad. The then-89-year-old Khomeini proclaimed […]

5y ago

Democrats Look To Change House Rules On Headwear To Accommodate Religious Beliefs Of New Lawmakers

Democrats Look To Change House Rules On Headwear To Accommodate Religious Beliefs Of New Lawmakers

The House of Representatives may change a rule on wearing hats in its chambers to accommodate individuals whose headwear is symbolic of their religious beliefs. The midterm elections of 2018 produced one of the most diverse outcomes of winners ever seen, according to reports from CBS News, including the election of two Muslim women for […]

6y ago

Zayn Malik Attacked For Admitting He’s Not A Muslim

Zayn Malik Attacked For Admitting He’s Not A Muslim

One Direction star Zayn Malik has caused an uproar on social media by revealing he doesn’t identify as a Muslim anymore. In an interview with British Vogue, the pop star who makes a point of never talking about his religious beliefs was asked if he “would call himself a Muslim now.” To which the singer […]

6y ago

Sinead O’ Connor Announces She Is ‘Proud To Have Become A Muslim’

Sinead O’ Connor Announces She Is ‘Proud To Have Become A Muslim’

Former Catholic priest and singer Sinead O’ Connor has renounced Christianity and converted to Islam. The Daily Mail reports that the ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ singer took to Twitter to announce her surprise decision to become a Muslim and change her name to Shuhada Davitt. In Arabic, Shuhada means ‘Martyrs’. The Irish pop star, who […]

6y ago

Afghan Taliban Kidnaps Dozens Of Passengers After Attack On Bus Convoy

Afghan Taliban Kidnaps Dozens Of Passengers After Attack On Bus Convoy

Taliban fighters are currently holding 21 people hostage in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz after ambushing a convoy of three buses traveling in the Khan Abad district, reports CNN. Provincial spokesman Ismatullah Muradi told CNN that the buses were traveling from Badakhshan and Takhar to the capital Kabul and approximately 150 people were abducted after […]

6y ago

Public Spaces In Netherlands To Introduce Burqa Ban

Public Spaces In Netherlands To Introduce Burqa Ban

On Tuesday, the Dutch Upper House of Parliament issued a ban in Netherlands, which has now joined the other European countries that have already banned burqas, niqab, and other face-covering veils inside specific public places. These types of shrouds are still allowed on public streets. For anyone calling foul, wondering if burqas and niqab are […]

6y ago

Supreme Court Upholds Donald Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0, Says POTUS ‘Possesses An Extraordinary Power’

Supreme Court Upholds Donald Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0, Says POTUS ‘Possesses An Extraordinary Power’

In a 5-4 ruling along ideological lines, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the third version of Donald Trump’s “travel ban” does not violate the United States Constitution, in an opinion issued Tuesday morning. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the U.S. president has the Constitutional authority to block […]

6y ago

Saudi Arabian Women Get Behind The Wheel For The First Time In 60 Years, As Driving Ban Ends

Saudi Arabian Women Get Behind The Wheel For The First Time In 60 Years, As Driving Ban Ends

Saudi Arabian women are getting behind the wheel again, after the conservative and deeply-religious Muslim country lifted a 60-year-old ban on women drivers, BBC News is reporting. Nevertheless, many women fear harassment for driving, even though it’s legal again. Since 1957, women in Saudi Arabia have been under a de facto ban on driving. That’s […]

6y ago

Denver Landlord Refuses To Allow Muslim Tenants To Lease Restaurant Space, Demands An ‘American Person’

Denver Landlord Refuses To Allow Muslim Tenants To Lease Restaurant Space, Demands An ‘American Person’

A Denver landlord has been caught on tape refusing to allow tenants to lease restaurant space to a Muslim family, telling her agent that Muslims are “extremely dangerous.” As Greeley, Colorado, public radio station KUNC reports, Craig Caldwell had leased space from Katina Gatchis. Caldwell, owner of chicken-restaurant chain White Fence Farms, had closed one […]

6y ago

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Claims Iran’s Actions In Middle East Could Cause New Wave Of Immigrants

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Claims Iran’s Actions In Middle East Could Cause New Wave Of Immigrants

Kicking off a three-day European tour, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday. The goal of his tour according to Reuters is to persuade leaders of Germany, France, and the UK that it’s in the best interest of their countries and the world to pull out of the multi-national Iranian […]

6y ago

Donald Trump To Host Ramadan Dinner After Repeated Attempts To Ban Muslim Travel

Donald Trump To Host Ramadan Dinner After Repeated Attempts To Ban Muslim Travel

During his first year in office, Donald J. Trump broke with tradition and decided against hosting a Ramadan dinner at the White House. The move, along with multiple attempts to ban Muslim travel, caused an outcry of intolerance and bigotry from lawmakers and the general public. But on Wednesday, Trump will return to patterns of […]

6y ago

Three Kansas Men Charged With Plotting To Bomb Mosques, Kill Somali Muslim Immigrants

Three Kansas Men Charged With Plotting To Bomb Mosques, Kill Somali Muslim Immigrants

Three Kansas men were convicted Wednesday of plotting to blow up mosques and kill Muslims in the town of Garden City, where a meat-packing plant employs hundreds of Somali refugees, KSN-TV (Wichita) is reporting. Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright, and Curtis Allen were all members of a home-grown militia group that came to be known as […]

6y ago

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