The leader of the Shiite jihadist terror group Ansar Allah, known commonly as the Houthis, marked the Islamic holiday celebrating the birthday of Mohammed on Tuesday with an accusatory screed claiming the government of Saudi Arabia was “serving Zionism” and threatening more attacks on the neighboring countries.
Muhammad once again claimed the top spot as the most popular boys’ name in England and Wales, according to newly released government data, while the name “Yahya” made the fastest climb of any name in 2024—prompting broader questions about cultural identity and societal shifts in modern Britain.
A criminal court in Ankara on Wednesday ordered a ban on Grok, the artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI.
Turkish authorities on Monday arrested cartoonist Dogan Pehlevan for committing an “Islamophobic hate crime” by drawing a cartoon allegedly depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad.
Muhammad was among the top 10 baby boy names in New York City in 2023, according to recently released data from the New York City Health Department.
Muhammad was the top name choice for baby boys in England and Wales in 2023 with more than 4,600 children registered with the name.
Three years after sparking Muslim protests after showing his class a caricature of Muhammad, a religious studies teacher is still in hiding.
Muhammad was the most popular baby name in the Irish city of Galway last year, the country’s government has claimed.
An Indonesian nightlife venue called Holywings apologized on Thursday for offending religious sentiments in the Muslim-majority country after it offered men named Muhammad free alcohol in a promo.
Muslims across India on Friday continued protests sparked by comments from a now-suspended spokeswoman for the ruling Hindu-nationalist BJP party that were denounced as insulting to Islam’s Muhammad.
The Indian government made some conciliatory statements after a spokeswoman for the ruling BJP party made televised comments seen as critical of Islam’s Muhammad two weeks ago, but as condemnation from Muslim nations and demands for additional acts of contrition keep pouring in, the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing back against its critics.
India’s ruling BJP Party on Sunday suspended spokeswoman Nupur Sharma and permanently expelled Delhi regional media director Naveen Kumar Jindal after they made televised comments critical of Islam’s Muhammad and his child bride, Aisha.
Muslims in Britain have protested the release of what they called a “provocative” film, which depicts the daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
Muslim nations should boycott Western countries for “insulting” the Islamic prophet, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday.
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad attacked his critics Friday, saying he is “disgusted” his comments on attacks by Islamic extremists in France were taken out of context to harm him and “stir hatred for Muslims.” He cautioned the time has come for the French to “teach their people to respect other people’s feelings.”
Police say at least four people have been killed and dozens have been injured after security forces in southern Bangladesh opened fire on a crowd of Muslim demonstrators protesting against an alleged social media post undermining the prophet Muhammad.
An Islamist filmed a message making the rounds on the Internet this week saying he is in Canada to slay Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, who was recently released from prison in Pakistan after spending nearly a decade on death row over false blasphemy allegations.
The leader of one of the most prominent Islamist extremist groups participating in the Pakistan general elections vowed to use an “atom bomb” from the country’s arsenal to “wipe Holland off the face of this earth” if it allows a competition of cartoons depicting Mohammad to proceed, Pakistani media reported Tuesday.
IRGC-Quds Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani, in a recent video, told a group of Iranian soldiers in Al-Bukamal, Syria, that the United States forces are “cowards” and that their soldiers wore diapers in the battlefield so they could urinate when scared.
Iranian state-run television has broadcast a report showcasing a 13-year-old sent to Syria to fight on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad, allegedly under the guidance of Iran’s terror chief, General Qasem Soleimani.
A Muslim group responded to a billboard mocking Muhammad as a “perfect man” by installing a billboard of its own not too far from its location on an Indiana highway.
TEL AVIV — Muslim preacher Mostafa Rashed, considered by many to be the highest authority on Islam in Australia, has sparked a storm of criticism by saying on television that the Islamic figure Muhammad was a Christian until age 40.
The state prosecution service of Denmark is bringing blasphemy charges against a man who burned a copy of the Koran in his garden and then posted a video of the act on a Facebook page.
The Huffington Post has refused to remove an article on its Arabic website that claims the Islamic prophet Muhammad was poisoned by a Jew.
PARIS (AFP) – One of Charlie Hebdo’s most outspoken journalists said on Friday she is quitting the French satirical magazine because it has gone soft on Islamist extremism.
A photo of two young female students selling tea in the streets of Medina has gone viral in Saudi Arabia, where female labor was taboo until recently.
In an astonishing feat of mental legerdemain, the Huffington Post has made the claim that the prophet Muhammad—who married 13 wives and taught that women have an intellect inferior to men’s—was actually an active promotor of women’s rights, the world’s “first feminist.”
A 17-year-old was shot dead and a friend seriously injured by a Muslim mob in Pakistan, allegedly in retaliation for the arrest of a mentally unstable Hindu man accused of “desecrating” a copy of the Quran.
U.S. anti-jihad agencies have jailed or arrested 101 men since 2001 who are named for Muhammad, the reputedly final and perfect prophet of Islam, despite President Barack Obama’s insistence that Islamic “violent extremism” – and the 101 Muhammads – have nothing to do with Islam.
TEL AVIV – Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad claimed that the Prophet Muhammad’s view of Jews as “subhuman” and the subsequent treatment of Jews after his death was akin to that of the Nazis, adding that such hatred is ongoing and has “prevented us from dealing with our problems in a serious way.”
Horrific events like Tuesday’s jihadist attacks in Brussels should not come as a surprise, says noted evangelical preacher Franklin Graham, since hatred and violence against nonbelievers are central to the teachings of Islam.
As sharia adherence becomes increasingly the norm, outrages to free speech are increasingly commonplace. The Observer reported Friday that “approximately five miles south of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, alongside the Interstate 294, stands a large anti-Israel billboard.”
An article in the Huffington Post this week proposes that Christians acknowledge Muhammad’s greatness and accept him as a prophet as a way to move forward in interreligious dialogue. Writer Craig Considine writes that he is a Christian with deep
Iran announced this week that authorities are hosting a state-sponsored contest to see who can create the best Holocaust denial cartoon. The grand prize has been boosted this year to $50,000, up from $12,000, according to reports.
The number of babies born in the U.S. and named Muhammad or some variant has been on the rise for the past several decades, according to a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of Social Security Administration name data.
A Reuters story about an ISIS “fatwa” (i.e., Islamic “religious” edict) regarding female sex slaves appeared online.
Anti-Jewish attacks are spiking to record levels across the U.S., Europe and the world (spurred largely by Islamic Jew-hatred). A “moderate” Muslim country, Algeria, has its army marching in drill chanting: “turn your guns towards the Jews in order to
Showing an Iranian-made movie on the life of Islam’s Muhammad is a sacrilegious endeavor, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh, said this week.
Last May, I wrote in Breitbart that “Ahmadi Muslim spokesman Qasim Rashid is a one-man cottage industry of deception and hypocrisy, churning out article after article purporting to prove that the Muslims who are killing, enslaving, and terrorizing people all
The most popular name given to newborn baby boys in London in 2014 was Muhammad, according to the Office of National Statistics, after first taking the position in 2012. The name featured twice in London’s top ten baby names, with
