Public calls are on the rise in Egypt for Al-Azhar, the most important religious institution in Egypt and in the Sunni world, to intervene and reform Islamic education after twin terror attacks targeted Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday last week killed dozens of worshippers and a number of security personnel.
Police were scrambled to an area of Bradford Thursday night after local Muslims reacted hysterically to copies of the Quran being found in a skip.
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.
Al-Arabiya reports that smugglers have “resorted to some desperate measures” to slip drugs and alcohol into Saudi Arabia.
The president of the American Pastors Network said that many U.S. citizens are in denial over the true nature of Islam by refusing to acknowledge its inherent ties to violent jihad.
A leading Egyptian cleric irked his Christian compatriots when he said on television that Prophet Mohammed would marry the Virgin Mary in heaven.
Pakistani police have arrested a Christian man — described by some as a “pastor,” others an “evangelist” — for allegedly desecrating a Quran by writing his name on it. Friends and family say the charge is impossible, however, because Shahbaz Babu is illiterate.
An Indonesian court will prosecute Jakarta’s Christian governor who has been accused of blasphemy against the Qur’an, a judge announced on Tuesday. A panel of judges rejected a petition by the legal defense team of governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known
The Islamic State organization has increased its “business as usual” propaganda effort despite the military campaign waged against it in Iraq and Syria
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 prominent Quran reciter in Shiite Iran, who has been affiliated with the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been accused of raping multiple children, according to some news outlets.
JAFFA, Israel – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to attend former Israeli President Shimon Peres’ funeral on Friday has divided the Palestinians.
Over 15,000 Muslims gathered in the parking lot of Angel Stadium on Monday morning to celebrate Eid al-Adha (the “Sacrifice Feast”), the second of two major Islamic holidays that occurs during the time of the annual hajj pilgrimage.
Suicide – and therefore a suicide attack – is one of the most grievous transgressions of Islamic law, a column in the Saudi daily Al-Watan claimed, and Muslim clerics do nothing to combat the brainwashing by terror groups which convinces young people to carry out these forbidden acts in the name of Allah.
A verse from the Koran is to be read at the funeral of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, the British backpacker who was stabbed to death in Australia last week by a French Muslim who allegedly shouted ‘Allah hu akbar’ as he carried out the attack.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia has launched a media campaign in an effort to combat anti-Semitism, paving the way for public opinion to accept the kingdom’s strengthening ties with Israel.
Friday, October 9, 2015, brandishing a knife, Gaza cleric Sheikh Muhammad Sallah “Abu Rajab”’s sermon at the Al-Abrar Mosque in Rafah explicitly fomented murderous knifing attacks on Israeli Jews as sanctioned by Muhammad’s actions towards the Jews of the Khaybar oasis, and the Medinan Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza.
Khizr Khan wrote that any writings on judicial matters “must always be subordinated to the Shari’ah and open to reconsideration by all Muslims.”
In a public show of “fraternal correction,” celebrated evangelist Franklin Graham has called out Pope Francis for his remarks suggesting that Islamic terrorism is not religiously motivated.
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.
Since the Friday morning terror attack that stole at least 84 lives in Nice, France, investigators have learned that the murderer had started attending a mosque in April, stopped drinking alcohol, grew a beard for religious purposes and sent over £84,000 to family in Tunisia.
At recently concluded “Camp Ramadan” held in the Washington DC area, counselors dealt with the election year by encouraging the school-aged children to make fun of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The Turkish government has sanctioned Quran recitations by a different senior Islamic cleric each day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan so far this year at the secular Hagia Sophia Museum. Christian-majority Greece has condemned the move as the “creeping Islamization of the building,” reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The Quran does not mandate the death penalty for homosexuals, argues a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA organization during an interview with The United West investigative team.
TEL AVIV – An Arab American girl’s horrific story of being forced by her mother to become a teen bride to an older Palestinian older man and her subsequent escape back to the U.S. has gone viral.
JAFFA, Israel – Heaven is not Muslim-only, said prominent Egyptian Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasser, defying a near-consensus among Islamic theologians.
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.
A conference of religious groups and political parties convened by an Islamic political party in Pakistan has called on the government to retract an “un-Islamic” law that gives wide-ranging protection to female victims of violence. The Women’s Protection Act was
Two Italian cities have signed “transparency pacts” with the local Islamic communities, stipulating the use of the Italian language in prayer services, including both preaching of the Friday sermon and the reading of the Qur’an. Discussions between Islamic leaders and
Perhaps it’s because he was making faces in Qur’an class instead of paying attention to his teacher. Or maybe he just has a selective memory about what he was taught as a young Muslim student in Indonesia.
JAFFA, Israel – Women are now allowed to stay in hotels without a male companion, the Saudi Tourist Board has decided in a landmark move. Saudi women will no longer be required to check in with a “legitimate” male relative
The grand mufti of Sunni Saudi Arabia has ruled that Islam prohibits chess because it leads to gambling in addition to a squandering of time and money.
TEL AVIV, Israel – Hamas has pledged to crush the Army of Islam, a Gaza-based Salafi group that has openly threatened Hamas and labelled it heretical and its policies “anti-Islamic.” Earlier this month, the group released a video accusing Hamas of straying
A Cairo court has extended the remand of a leading Egyptian importer after he was allegedly involved in a homosexual relationship. The defendant, A.A., is charged with “sodomy,” the court wrote in the injunction. The man is also accused of
British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis recommended Wednesday that Jewish schools in the United Kingdom teach — Islam.
Police in Pflugerville, Texas, were called to the Islamic Center of Pflugerville early Monday morning after a Koran was found at the entrance of the mosque with its pages torn and coated in feces.
An Islamic scholar, Varun Soni, the dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s “Belief” series, and explained that all the head choppers and rapists and suicide bombers who do their deeds while screaming “Allahu akbar” are all misunderstanding jihad.
A Saudi man living in the kingdom’s capital city Riyadh beat his seven-year-old daughter to death with an air conditioning hose in a fit of rage. Her crime was telling him she did not love him.
British Islamist preacher Hamza Tzortzis has been in the spotlight numerous times for his outlandish preachings in defense of Islamic extremism.
Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have changed their plea to guilty and confessed to beating a ten-year-old boy with a stick for making mistakes when reciting the Quran. Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 23,
