Iran’s Ayatollah Says Saudi Arabia Has Betrayed Muslims
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused Saudi Arabia of double-crossing the Palestinians and betraying 1.6 billion Muslims by siding with the U.S. and Israel on regional affairs. Despite Iran and Saudi Arabia’s decades-long proxy war of influence in the Middle East, revolutionary Shiite Muslim cleric Khamenei said Tuesday that his country was “ready […]
China county bans Muslim children from religious events
Chinese government authorities have banned Muslim children from attending religious events during winter break, in a county in western China that is mostly populated by Muslims. The notification for the ban has been posted online by the education bureau, as authorities step up their suppression of religious freedoms. School students in Linxia county in Gansu […]
Neo-Nazi Neil Erikson Confused the Quran With the Bible
Neil Erikson, a far-right, anti-Islam activist and self-proclaimed neo-Nazi in Australia, picked up a copy of the Quran as he prepared to give sworn evidence under religious oath in court on Monday. Related: Bible Miraculously Didn’t Burn When an Evangelical Church Was Firebombed by Militants, Congregants Claim The court staff then pointed out his mistake, […]
What Is Religious Freedom Day Announced By Trump?
President Donald Trump proclaimed Jan. 16 as Religious Freedom Day, the White House announced Tuesday morning. It was “to commemorate the 232nd anniversary of the passing of a State law that has shaped and secured our cherished legacy of religious liberty,” he said in a proclamation. In 2017, Trump signed an executive order to this […]
More Than 1,800 Pakistani Clerics Issue Islamic Decree Condemning Terrorism
Religious clerics in Pakistan issued an Islamic decree, or fatwa, Tuesday condemning suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism as un-Islamic and against the teachings of the religion. The decree, endorsed by more than 1,800 prominent religious scholars from different religious institutions, is part of a new book titled Paigham-e-Pakistan or Pakistan’s Message, announced by […]
Report: Extremism Deaths Down in US, but White Supremacist Incidents Growing
A report released Wednesday said the number of slayings committed by white supremacists in the United States more than doubled in 2017 compared with the previous year. The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League noted in its report that while the U.S. death toll from extremism was down in 2017, it was still the fifth most violent year […]
White Supremacists Killed 18 People in 2017
White supremacists not only shed their masks in 2017 but unleashed one of the deadliest years for extremist violence in almost half a century. Over the past 12 months, white supremacists committed the largest number of domestic-extremist related killings, helping to make 2017 the fifth-deadliest year for extremist violence since 1970, according to a newly […]
Asma, four, ‘raped, strangled to death’ in Mardan
A four-year-old girl was raped before being strangled to death in northwest Pakistan, a district mayor and doctors have said. The body of the victim, who is being named as Asma, was found in a sugarcane field on Sunday in the Jandarpar Gujjar Garhi district of Mardan city, a day after she went missing. “I […]