Management at the World Technology Institute for Women reportedly reversed its decision after first temporarily allowing its female students to wear pants on condition that the girls donate two Saudi Riyals ($.50) to a charity that helps young girls in need.
A Muslim man has sued the pizza chain Little Caesars for $100 million in Michigan after he claims the pizza restaurant served him pork-based pepperoni despite his ordering “halal” pepperoni allowed under Islamic law.
A Muslim student on an interfaith panel at Portland State University claimed that apostates will be killed or banished in Islamic countries.
Saudi Arabia raised $9 billion in its first global Islamic bond issue, the government announced on Thursday, a move analysts say could ease pressure on foreign reserves.
The ruler of Dubai on Wednesday ordered three men accused of feeding a cat alive to two dogs and filming it to clean the city’s zoo for three months.
An Egyptian liquor store owner died on Tuesday after his throat was slit by a middle-aged bearded man, witnesses said.
Female sex workers and homeless drug addicts in Tehran should be “convinced” to undergo sterilization to prevent social problems, a deputy provincial governor in the Iranian capital said on Sunday.
Harvard Law School has announced the launch of a series of paid fellowships for research on issues of Islamic law during the 2017-2018 academic year, aimed at influencing public discourse and U.S. policy on Sharia.
Saudi billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal has weighed in on the ongoing debate on women’s right to drive, saying “the time has come” to recognize it.
Iran blinded a man on Tuesday after convicting him of throwing chemicals in face of a four-year-old girl and depriving her of sight, a judicial official was quoted as saying.
Saudi Arabia’s parliament on Monday struck down a bill to allow women to drive. The Shura Council, the kingdom’s legislative body voted against a proposal to instruct the Labor and Interior Ministries to look into the matter, 65 to 62. In order to gain approval, the bill had to secure 76 votes.
A Saudi man divorced his wife two hours after they got married because she sent wedding pictures on Snapchat, despite having specified in the marriage contract that she would refrain from using social media.
New research shows that animals are dying in unnecessary pain because of a lack of understanding over the practice of stunning, which stops animals from feeling pain when their throats are cut.
The Gaza military court has sentenced R.A. to twenty years of imprisonment and forced labor after he was convicted of passing information to Israeli “occupiers.”
A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end “severe” discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.
JAFFA, Israel – An internationally renowned Egyptian Islamic cleric has sparked an outcry by saying that “Islamic governments” must be entirely subordinate to Islamic law.
CAIRO — It was an outrageous argument, by any measure: Women should “reduce their sexual desires” because Egyptian men are “sexually weak.”
TEL AVIV – In response to a Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric’s now infamous sermon claiming that Islamic law permits men to beat their wives, a columnist for the country’s daily Okaz slammed the idea, saying that state law supersedes Sharia law and female victims of domestic violence must not be afraid to speak out.
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic movement of Morocco, the ruling Justice and Development Party, has decided to eject from its ranks two senior officials, a man and a woman, who were reportedly discovered being intimate in a car near the beach.
JAFFA, Israel – The Jordanian authorities have reportedly recently barred a middle aged man from marrying a 14-year-old Syrian refugee.
JAFFA, Israel – A top Egyptian cleric sparked outcry after declaring that Ahmed Zewail, an illustrious Egyptian-American scientist who died last week, was an infidel who should not be mourned.
Khizr Khan wrote that any writings on judicial matters “must always be subordinated to the Shari’ah and open to reconsideration by all Muslims.”
One of the reasons Western liberal culture has so much difficulty grappling with the reality of radical Islam is that liberals think religion, in general, is a quaint hobby no one is really serious about. Islam, however, has a code of law called sharia, which is meant to transcend secular law.
Gays should be put to death under sharia law whether the Islamic doctrine is implemented in Muslim countries or the West, exclaimed Britain’s most notorious radical Islamist preacher, Anjem Choudary, during an interview.
Iran has arrested eight people in a crackdown against women who “promote immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity,” by appearing on Instagram without wearing the mandatory hijab head covering.
Three halal slaughtermen and their bosses have appeared in court charged with the “systematic” abuse of animals killed in accordance with Islamic law. Kabeer Hussein, Kazam Hussein, Artur Lewandowski, Robert Woodward and William Woodward sat alongside each other yesterday at
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State published pictures showing its operatives exhibiting “judgement and compassion” against a man who confessed to prostitution, one of Sharia law’s most punishable offenses. Instead of stoning and whipping the defendant, the organization decided to spare him, citing his celibacy, and making do with censuring him in public.
JAFFA, Israel – Kuwait police have published new “modesty rules” for its female officers following a recent surge in complaints. While on duty, female officers must not “wear tight clothes, conspicuous hairpins, bracelets and earrings,” the new regulations dictate. Nor
JAFFA, Israel – A Bahraini court was asked to okay sex reassignment surgery for a man who claimed that his manhood was “extinguished” after his wife spilled boiling oil on his genitals. The man, who is in his thirties, was
The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh has banned celebrations of Valentine’s Day this weekend, arguing the holiday violates Islamic law.
