Religious ritual slaughter is mired in controversy, but Muslim authorities say it is humane. Eating halal meat is a fundamental part of the Muslim faith and advocates contend that the acts of customary Islamic slaughter are humane.
Sara Farsakh and her friends sued Laguna Beach restaurant, Urth Caffe, for allegedly forcing them to leave the restaurant. Farsakh said they were kicked out because of their religion.
Kirsty Powell is suing the city and the Long Beach police department after a male officer forcibly stripped off her hijab from her. Powell claims she has become distressed and suffered humiliation as she was seen by other male officers and inmate without her headscarf.
Alternative for Germany (AfD), the right-winged Nationalist Party of Germany strongly declares that Islam is not a part of Germany. With that being said, they have adopted an anti-Islam policy that also demands curbs to immigration.
Two Hindu teachers in Bangladesh were sentenced to jail after publicly insulting Islam. A mob of angry students and villagers attacked the teachers forcing them to lock up in a room. Insulting the religion in the said country will spark violence resulting to killings.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been worried about the growing diversity of religion in the country. Xi is concerned that lawless elements might use religion as a means to spread extremist ideology.
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) considers suing Ariens Company for its new prayer policy, which hinders Muslim workers from praying two of their five daily prayers.
China has announced new law to fight against religious extremism. Meanwhile, Muslim Uyghurs expressed fear as the new legislation will further erode their religious practice.
Hala Arafa and Asra Q. Nomani were two journalists writing in Washingtong Post who wants everyone not to wear hijab in solidarity. The two liberal Muslim women did some research and stated their concerns about wearing headscarves.
Islamic State militants have made more than $500 million trading oil with significant volumes sold to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way to Turkey, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.
Israeli politicians and more than 370,000 Britons urged their governments on Wednesday to bar Donald Trump from their countries after the Republican presidential front-runner said Muslims should be denied entry into the United States.
China needs to deepen its fight against separatists, intensify "de-radicalization" efforts, and increase global cooperation to defend against terrorism, the country's domestic security chief wrote on Tuesday.
Islamic State militants committed genocide against Iraq's Yazidis in the north of the country and carried out crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes against other minorities, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said on Thursday.
When a mob of Muslims swooped on a little church deep in rural Aceh in Indonesia this month, the local police were nowhere to be seen, although they had received warnings of a possible attack.
In a small teahouse in the conservative southeastern Turkish town of Adiyaman, two brothers would hold court with young followers, praying, reading the Koran and painting a picture of a better life across the border in Syria, in the ranks of Islamic State.
A supporter of Islamic State militants has issued a threat against Fox News contributor Rob O'Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, and also posted the ex-commando's purported home address in Montana on-line.
Hours before the Tennessee shooting that killed five U.S. servicemen, the suspected gunman texted a close friend a link to an Islamic verse that included the line: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."
A year after declaring his caliphate, it is clear that the secret of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's success is the army and state he has built from the remnants of Saddam Hussein's military, and the allegiance he has won or coerced from alienated Sunni Muslims in Iraq, Syria, and beyond.
