Saudi public opinion is reeling from Monday’s detention of a young woman who, according to police, violated modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh.
Saudi police detained a young woman for violating modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh, local media reported on Monday.
The daughter of Palestinian immigrants is to be the Berlin senate’s secretary of state for coordinating federal and state affairs, but attention has focused on her recent remarks in support of Sharia law.
An Egyptian man has been arrested on charges of killing his 10-year-old daughter because she left the house without his permission.
Anjem Choudary’s bodyguard, known as the “Muslim enforcer”, has been jailed for attacking a young boy because he was cuddling his non-Muslim girlfriend.
A top Saudi cleric sparked a controversy in releasing an online sermon in which he made statements that were misogynistic even by the standards of the ultraconservative kingdom.
TEL AVIV – Only one in 25 British Muslims believe Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, a new poll has found.
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.
A top Egyptian cleric has called on his followers not to rejoice at the widespread forest fires that have plagued Israel for the past week.
A German court has thrown out a case against a group of extremist Salafist ‘sharia police,’ for the second time, claiming they have not broken the law.
Indonesia police announced Wednesday that Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, is a suspect in a probe of a blasphemy law violation for joking about the Quran forbidding non-Muslims to rule over Muslim people.
A British tourist allegedly raped by two men in Dubai is facing jail after authorities accused her sex outside of marriage.
The Saudi media reported on new gold- and diamond-coated baby bottles that have gone on sale as the Saudi government’s efforts to modernize the national economy and make it efficient and sustainable.
Islamic State militants fighting to hold on to their Mosul stronghold have displayed the crucified bodies of five people they said gave information to “the enemy”, and are back on the city streets policing the length of men’s beards, residents say.
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.
Two teenage girls were kissing and hugging on a rooftop in Marrakesh, Morocco, late last week when one of their cousins took their photo.
Saudi Arabia has flogged a prince convicted in a criminal case, a newspaper reported Wednesday, two weeks after another was executed for murder in rare punishment of the country’s royalty.
After Islamic State conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to guidelines for taking women as sex slaves.
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.
Men forced to grow out their hair and beards by the Islamic State’s oppressive Sharia law are flocking to barber shops to shave their beards and get new haircuts in the suburbs of Mosul, where the operation to liberate the city has begun.
A Saudi court ruling allowing a woman to watch her husband’s flogging, which he received as punishment for biting her, has been a cause for concern for some of the kingdom’s men.
Arab social media users celebrated singer Janet Jackson’s first appearance in public since announcing her pregnancy wearing full Islamic dress.
A Saudi social media users has been a target of widespread threats and condemnation after he labelled Islam “garbage” and “primitive” and advocated free encounters between men and women.
A young Saudi woman was arrested after police were notified she was driving a car in Mecca. The woman, together with two male passengers, was handed over to the vice squad after intoxicating substances were found in the car. The
A March 2016 email published Monday by the organization Wikileaks reveals that George Soros, in anticipation of a meeting with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, requested Podesta read a memo accusing President Barack Obama of emboldening radical Islam in Malaysia in order to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) passed.
Secular Iraqis woke up feeling hungover on Sunday, after a surprise parliament vote they claim is unconstitutional and shows that dominant religious parties have their priorities wrong.
Iraq’s parliament on Saturday voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, in a surprise move likely to anger some minorities but also to please influential religious parties.
An unnamed American citizen who posted a video of himself converting to Islam during a Saudi auto show has become a social media celebrity in the kingdom.
The government of Malaysia has decreed that no food items contain the word “dog” in them, as dogs are forbidden as both food and pets under Islamic sharia law.
Female Iranian chess players have hit back at calls by opponents of the country’s Islamic dress code for a boycott of February’s world championships in Tehran, saying the campaign hurts Iranian women.
The secret departure of two Saudi students to South Korea last week has sparked a heated debate in the ultraconservative kingdom about the status of women there. The two women disappeared on Thursday and resurfaced later that day in South
A booklet claiming that those who insult Islam must be killed and that apostates deserve assassination has been handed out at an East London mosque, it has emerged. Police are investigating the booklet as a possible hate crime.
An Egyptian lawmaker stirred a controversy after he said female students should undergo virginity tests.
An Iraqi man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, to which he later admitted, after she refused to cook for him.
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.
A top Salafi leader has addressed the weaknesses of the jihadi strategy following the severe losses encountered by jihadi organizations, chief among them the Islamic State.
When a teenager in Saudi Arabia began chatting up an American woman online, he first found fame and then notoriety before he was arrested over concerns that his clumsy cyber flirtation violated the kingdom’s conservative norms.
JAFFA, Israel – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to attend former Israeli President Shimon Peres’ funeral on Friday has divided the Palestinians.
An Australian imam was attacked and beaten with a shoe live on Egyptian television after he suggested Islamic women should not be forced to wear a veil in public.
Two Malaysian economic groups have created a new logo to distinguish products made by Muslims from those made by others in order to boost Islamic businesses.
