Openly gay Tunisian lawyer and prominent LGBT rights advocate Mounir Baatour wants to become the next president of Muslim-majority Tunisia, where homosexuality is currently punishable by up to three years in prison, several news outlets reported over the weekend.
Danish anti-Islam party Stram Kurs (Tight Course) faced off against Islamists from the Hizb ut-Tahrir group in front of the Danish parliament with the former group burning a Quran.
TEL AVIV — Arab social media users have been extensively discussing Hurricane Irma and the extent to which the powerful storm was “divine punishment” or a natural phenomenon that is appropriate to the climate in the region.
The head of the Scottish Episcopal Church has said he is “deeply distressed at the widespread offence” caused by the reading of a passage from the Quran denying the divinity of Christ during an Epiphany service, but no apology has
Omar Alnatour, who identifies himself as a “Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian,” has published an article in the Huffington Post entitled, “Why Muslims Should Never Have To Apologize for Terrorism.” It’s one of the most deceptive apologetic pieces ever to appear on HuffPo – and that’s saying a lot.
The Islamic State’s outreach commission organized a Quran contest this week, encompassing the territory under the group’s control in Iraq, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency reported. The “first Dar al-Islam” contest was divided into levels, and started with regional qualifiers participated in by hundreds
Pakistan’s religious body known as the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has deemed a bill that would outlaw pedophilia “anti-Islamic” and “blasphemous,” according to various media reports.
