Sharia

The form King of Malaysia, Sultan Muhammad V, divorced his beauty queen Russian wife less than seven months after getting married, his lawyer confirmed this week.

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.

The ban on the sharia-compliant swimwear known as the “Burkini” has been overturned by the higher administrative court in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate after a judge decided the ban violated the constitution.

TEL AVIV – Iranian police have shut down 547 restaurants and cafes in the capital Tehran for not observing “Islamic principles” including modesty, the city’s police chief announced Saturday.

One of the co-founders of the Islamist Belgian party simply named “Islam” has been sentenced to a six month suspended sentence after being convicted of discriminating against a woman on a television programme last year.

Actor George Clooney will continue his boycott of hotels owned by Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah following the Southeast Asian state’s declaration of a moratorium on executions by stoning of people “convicted of adultery and gay sex.”

The University of Oxford says it will “reconsider” an honorary degree it awarded the Sultan of Brunei following the outcry over new Islamic laws in the Southeast Asian nation that punish gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death.

Brunei’s already strict Islamic criminal code will enter an even tougher new stage next week with the introductions of laws mandating lengthy prison terms, whipping, and even execution for homosexual behavior. Brunei is set to become the first Asian country to punish homosexuality with the death penalty, as several Arab countries do.

Dede Laugesen said “anti-Christian bias” across “mainstream media” minimizes the mass murder of Christians by Islamic terrorist groups.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), even as its so-called caliphate continues to crumble, disseminated a new propaganda film this week urging the jihadi remnants in the group’s last sliver of land in Syria not to worry about their possible demise because they will end up in “paradise” while their enemies will go to “hell.”

A man who harassed a Muslim woman for not adhering to Islamic dress codes at a London health centre and threatened a co-worker he believed was Christian has received a weak non-custodial sentence.

Twitter has been warning users from around the world, including conservative writer and commentator Michelle Malkin, that their posts on the platform violate Pakistan’s Sharia law, and that they “may wish to consult legal counsel.”

The Philippine island of Mindanao held a referendum on Monday to establish an autonomous region that would be governed by the largely Muslim residents.

CAIRO (AP) – An Egyptian actress facing trial on public obscenity charges for wearing a dress revealing the entirety of her legs says she did not mean to offend anyone.

Amazon has been funnelling cash to a Salafist ‘charity’ led by an Islamic scholar described as “one of the most dangerous men in Britain” by counter-extremists.

Britain’s new anti-extremism chief has expressed concern that Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group which seeks to establish a caliphate with Sharia law, could be “radicalising children” after an investigation found them using children to peddle extremist literature.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested an Egyptian hotel worker on Sunday after he was filmed in an “offensive” video eating breakfast alongside a female co-worker.

Two women in Malaysia were publicly caned in a religious court on Monday after they were found guilty of attempted sex with each other in a car. 

A bipartisan group of 17 members of Congress reportedly sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin requesting that they impose sanctions on China in response to the mass arrest and detention of Muslims in western Xinjiang province, where they are subject to torture in “political re-education camps.”

In a legal first, a British High Court judge has recognised a shariah marriage when ruling on a ‘divorce’ petition of a Muslim woman, likely setting a precedent on the acceptance of Islamic marriages and divorces in the UK.

A foreign national accused of killing eight people with a truck in Manhattan spoke out in federal court Friday to defend his allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS).

NEW DELHI – One of India’s top women chess players has pulled out of an upcoming championship in Iran in protest at having to wear an Islamic headscarf.

A journalist has been allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of Britain’s secretive Sharia Courts, which can preside over business, marriage, and financial disputes in the Muslim community under the Arbitration Act of 1996.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested four women’s rights activists who campaigned for the lifting of a ban on women driving cars.

Turkey is expected to give an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as the al-Rahman Corps the police command of the Afrin region in Syria along with authority to impose Sharia, or strict Islamic laws, on the residents, which include members of the persecuted Yazidi and Christian minorities, a monitor group revealed over the weekend.

Iranian authorities in the conservative city of Mashhad arrested a Culture Ministry official on Thursday after news spread that men and women were dancing at an event accompanied by a singer in a public mall.

The first school for transgender people has opened in Lahore, Pakistan, in another surprising step for LGBT rights in the strictly Islamic country.

A startup in Dubai called OneGram has created a Bitcoin-style cryptocurrency that ostensibly complies with sharia law, making it an acceptable alternative for devout Muslims.

An estimated 770,000 people in the UK – almost 1.2 per cent of the population – cannot speak English, the government has admitted as it announces a new push to promote integration and reduce the power of Islamic Sharia law.

TEL AVIV — A Syrian civilian has been accused of “prostitution” and arrested by the Islamic State-affiliated Khaled Bin Waleed armed militia active in the triangle border area between Syria, Israel and Jordan, according to the jihadist group.