Islam

Activist arrested for blasphemy in Morocco for 'Allah is a lesbian' T-shirt photo

Ibtissame Lachgar, an LGBT rights campaigner and a co-founder of the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms, was arrested in Morocco over allegations of blasphemy.

Ibtissame Lachgar wearing a top reading that Allah is a lesbian.
Muslim women attend Friday prayers at Iqraa Dunmurry Mosque in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 9, 2024.

Shi'ite org. axes UK children's summer camp following radicalization concerns, Iran ties

 Mura, Spain

Small Spanish town faces cultural uproar over ban on Islamic festivals in public spaces

PEOPLE MOURN in front of the Bataclan concert hall following a series of deadly attacks in Paris in 2015. The memory of such events lasts just long enough for the hashtags to fade, the writer laments.

The caliphate will be televised, and the West will fall – opinion


Name 'Yahya' jumps 33 ranks to become 93rd most popular boy name in UK

Muhammad was the most popular boys name in the UK in 2024. Mohammed took number 21, Mohammad took number 53, followed by Yusuf at 67, Musa at 73, Ibrahim at 77, and as mentioned, Yahya at 93.

 A baby being cleaned up and assessed by the paediatrician after he was born.

Europe's open borders give way to Islamic conquest without need for bloodshed - opinion

We are seeing increasing calls from Islamic fundamentalists to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Europe - a religious and political entity intended to govern the Muslim ummah.

Will democracy in Europe give way to a caliphate?

ICC convicts two militia leaders of persecuting Muslims in Central African Republic

Judges said Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, a former football executive, and militia commander Alfred Yekatom helped to lead a campaign of violence against Muslim civilians.

THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court building in The Hague: The ICC has no viable plan to bring to justice the Hamas leaders who conceived the mega-atrocity in Israel, or the terrorist organization’s supporters who slaughtered 1,200 civilians and seized 251 people as hostages on October 7, 2023

French court overturns burkini ban on Rivera beaches

The ban originally inspired a great deal of public debate on religious clothing in public spaces.

The burkini is under fire in France.

Nigerian curriculum fosters peace but perpetuates harmful Jewish stereotypes, IMPACT-se finds

Textbook references to Jewish people, history, and Israel vary in tone and consistency, the study finds.

 Nigerian school children.

IDF to launch mandatory Islamic studies and Arabic training for all intelligence soldiers

Following intelligence failures around October 7, 2023, the IDF is mandating that all intelligence personnel undergo training in both Arabic and Islamic cultural studies.

 IDF soldiers are seen working as part of the Israeli military's Gaza battlefield intelligence collection unit.

Terror risk at UK kids’ camp? UKLFI warns Islamic camp may be tool for radicalization

Girls who attend are required to wear the hijab and are mainly segregated "to ensure minimal overlap between girls and boys."

Camp Wilayah

Grapevine, July 12, 2025: Muslim empathy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

IMAM HASSEN Chalghoumi (right), Chairman of the Conference of Imams of France, with Dahri Nour Mouhammad, Executive Director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism.

Fooled by Islamist propaganda: Inside Iran's decades-long infiltration of the West

EUROPE AFFAIRS: Journalist Jean-Marie Montali speaks to ‘Post’ about his and Emmanuel Razavi’s book on Iran’s spy and influence networks in France and how the West fell prey to Iranian manipulation.

 French President Emmanuel Macron holds a bilateral meeting with then-Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly at its headquarters in New York City in 2022.

Malaysia dismantles Islamic State network involving workers from Bangladesh

Muslim-majority Malaysia has detained hundreds of people for suspected militant activities after a 2016 attack in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, that was linked to Islamic State.

 A man takes photos of the Petronas Twin Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia June 15, 2025.

Antisemitic hate preacher broke Australian law, Federal Judge rules in landmark ECAJ v. Haddad case

The court ordered that all three sermons - and any excerpts of them - be taken down from any internet page or publication under the control of the Al Madina Dawah Centre or Wissam Haddad.

 Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Oysayd.