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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.

Mad though it may seem for an organisation called the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC viscerally loathes Britain.

Every Muslim minister and deputy minister in Sri Lanka’s government resigned on Monday following the resignation of two governors in response to a Buddhist monk’s hunger strike calling for Muslim officials to step down.

Police are investigating claims that LGBT activists were harassed, intimidated, and pelted with eggs outside a primary school in Birmingham where a row has blown up between the activists and Muslim parents over the teaching of LGBT issues to children.

A local outlet in Sri Lanka published a video Monday, which purportedly shows Sri Lankan security forces colluding with mobs perpetrating violence against Muslims.

Black Lives Matter and other groups held a rally to call for President Trump to be censured for his remarks about Rep. Ilhad Omar (D-MN).

An accused aspiring jihadist martyr was arrested in California Friday and has been charged with planning to detonate an IED to cause mass casualties.

Conor McGregor outraged many for mocking fellow UFC Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Muslim marriage ceremony, calling the fighter’s wife a “towel.”

Democrat U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota are among the prominent Muslim women many in left-wing media and the abortion industry are celebrating in an event called Muslim Women’s Day.

The Fox News Channel will air a repeat episode of its documentary series Scandalous on Saturday instead of Jeannie Pirro’s weekly program —Justice with Judge Jeanine — following the conservative host’s recent remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) use of a hijab. 

Suits actress Meghan Markle – known these days as the Duchess of Sussex – has chosen to treat us all to her thoughts on British higher education.

A federal court blocked the execution of a Muslim inmate sitting on death row on Wednesday after it ruled the state of Alabama violated his religious liberties under the Constitution for not allowing an imam to be present in the execution chamber.

The third anti-Trump Women’s March is taking place in Washington, DC, and other U.S. cities on Saturday. Originally launched the day after President Trump was inaugurated in 2017, the event unfolds as several “sister marches” and sponsors–including the Democratic National Committee–have back out.

The Chinese government invited representatives from 12 neighboring, mostly Muslim-majority countries this week to tour some of the internment camps built in western Xinjiang province to indoctrinate, torture, and exploit the labor of Chinese Muslims.

Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), both Muslim, used a Quran to be sworn into office on Thursday.

The World Hijab Day (WHD) non-profit organization launched its 2019 campaign on Wednesday, encouraging women and girls of all faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities to “voice their choice” of wearing the headscarf for 24 hours on February 1 in solidarity with Muslim women across the world.

One of the two first Muslim women to be elected to Congress has announced she will be showcasing both her religion and her Palestinian roots when she is sworn in on January 3.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published a report Tuesday accusing South East Asian nations of systematically failing to protect their populations’ religious rights, noting that “state officials” in Pakistan often shield criminals forcing Christian or Hindu women into a Muslim marriage.

Sinead O’Connor, the bald Irish chanteuse best known for her Prince cover “Nothing Compares 2U”, has converted to Islam.

Another gang of mostly Muslim Pakistani thugs in the north of England (Huddersfield, this time) has been jailed for raping hundreds of mostly underage white girls. But that’s only half the story.

Actress Lindsay Lohan is accused of trying to kidnap homeless children on the streets of Moscow, Russia, after she posted a video of herself confronting what appears to be a homeless Muslim family. 

President Donald Trump’s administration raised the Christian share of the refugee inflow from under 50 percent in 2016 up to 71 percent in 2018, according to a chart posted by Axios. 

Former Michigan State Representative Rashida Tlaib is expected to become the first Muslim woman to serve in Congress after winning Tuesday’s primary election and running unopposed in the November midterm election.

Londoners are the least likely regional group in the UK to be relaxed with pre-marital sex and homosexuality, with researchers blaming “religious differences” for the discrepancy with the rest of the country.

President Donald Trump reacted to the ruling of the Supreme Court affirming the constitutionality of his order to restrict travel from Muslim-majority countries.

The New Delhi-based federal government ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recently took direct control of the Indian-held region of Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority territory in the country, following the collapse of a fragile coalition with a local political group.

In most Muslim-majority nations, “religious liberty is either crushed altogether or it barely exists,” wrote Catholic League president Bill Donohue Monday.

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Only 14 percent of registered voters strongly oppose President Donald Trump’s border reforms, despite the establishment media’s depiction of the reforms as a “Muslim travel ban.”

A Christian woman in Pakistan was murdered in an acid attack after refusing to marry a Muslim man.

A Jewish teenager wearing a traditional kippah claims he was attacked on a Berlin street by a Muslim assailant who whipped him with a belt in an anti-Semitic attack.

TEL AVIV – A prominent Shiite Iraqi interfaith activist told BBC Arabic earlier this month that the Islamic State terror group’s violence, including beheadings, is “deeply rooted in Islam” and that that makes it “a hundred times more evil.” 

A Florida teenager is accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy and injuring two others in a stabbing attack, which he said was “because of his Muslim faith.”

An Indonesian bill proposing a ban on gay sex has received support from all ten political parties in the country.

Indonesia’s Sharia police shaved several transgender women’s heads and “paraded them in front of the public” as part of a recent “community sickness operation.”

Several LGBT apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, amid increased government persecution against LGBT people.