Pakistan woke to electoral chaos on Thursday with the outgoing ruling party denouncing "blatant rigging" in the pivotal general election and rejecting unofficial, partial results suggesting victory...More
An Indonesian Christian has been sentenced to four years in prison for a Facebook post that likened the prophet Muhammad to a pig in the latest conviction under a controversial hate-speech law...More
In and around the Tunisian coastal city of Gabes, henna has long been a key driver of the economy – so much so that the plant is known as "red gold". But a water crisis and changing consumer habits...More
Students in Tibet have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer holidays, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. The ban will fall hard on Tibet's large Buddhist...More
Voting in national elections in Pakistan was underway on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of troops and police guarded polling stations following threats by Islamist militants to target the process...More
German police on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian suspected jihadist already in custody over a foiled biological attack with the deadly poison ricin, prosecutors said. The federal prosecutor's...More
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said he had backed Mesut Özil's decision to quit the German national team on racism grounds in a telephone call with the Turkish-origin football star, wading...More
President Donald Trump has warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that he will face dire consequences for threatening the United States. Trump tweeted late on Sunday about the dangers to Iran of...More
Turkish ministers on Monday warmly applauded the decision of Turkish-origin German footballer Mesut Özil to quit the national team on the grounds of racism, with one senior minister hailing "a goal...More
Arab-Israeli lawmakers resolutely condemned a law passed Thursday which defines Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people and downgrades the status of Arabic from an official language to...More
Proposals in an Austrian province for possible restrictions on the slaughter of animals according to Jewish and Muslim religious customs are drawing strong criticism. An official in Lower Austria...More
The United Nations on Tuesday said it was "deeply concerned" about a surge in intercommunal violence in central Mali that has killed hundreds of people since the start of the year. The UN...More
Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok defended himself on Wednesday after coming under fire for saying multi-cultural societies could never be peaceful and former colony Suriname was a "failed state"...More
A Turkish court on Wednesday again denied a request for the release from custody of an American pastor based in Turkey who is on trial on charges of aiding terror groups and engaging espionage...More
Secretive "re-education camps" allegedly holding hundreds of thousands of people in a Muslim-majority region in western China are the focus of an explosive court case in Kazakhstan, testing the...More
Last year, Qatar's finance minister Ali Sharif Al-Emadi said his country was determined to have everything ready for the 2022 World Cup well before fans started landing in the Gulf. "We don't want to...More
Since arriving in Lebanon, Sudanese migrant worker Abdallah Afandi has been turned away from beach resorts, mistaken for a cleaner and prevented from renting an apartment – all because of the colour...More
The Tunisian parliament on Tuesday approved a law to combat illicit enrichment, a step designed to strengthen the government's fight against widespread corruption in the country. Since the 2011...More
Egypt's parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalise journalists held to be publishing fake news. Under the law passed on Monday social media...More
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Morocco's capital Rabat at the weekend to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the predominantly Berber region of Rif...More
Pakistan is seeing an unprecedented number of extremists and militant sectarian groups - even an international terror figure with a $10 million U.S.-offered bounty on his head - on the campaign trail...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued seven new decrees regulating government institutions on Sunday, part of sweeping new powers granted to him by the executive presidency he assumed this...More
The newly expanded German Interior Ministry plans to expand its consultations with the Muslim community as part of the annual Islamic Conference format. "We have to be much stronger than before in...More
A liberal woman of colour with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party. When Tahirah Amatul-Wadud heard about Alexandria...More
An international rights group is accusing Egyptian authorities of using counterterrorism and state-of-emergency laws and courts "of unjustly prosecuting journalists, activists and critics for their...More
The slick freestyle football moves of a Malaysian Muslim girl have boosted her into the spotlight in a country where the sport is dominated by men. Sporting a headscarf, Qhouirunnisa' Endang Wahyudi...More
Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China's "Little Mecca", but they have undergone a profound change – no longer do boys flit through their stone courtyards en route to classes and...More
Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan said he was "quietly confident" of victory in a general election this month and that as prime minister, he would drive an anti-corruption and anti-poverty campaign...More
Saudi Arabia has detained influential religious scholar Safar al-Hawali and three of his sons, activists said on Thursday, widening an apparent crackdown against clerics, intellectuals and rights...More
Syria's army entered rebel-held parts of Daraa city on Thursday, state media said, raising the national flag in the cradle of the uprising that sparked the country's seven-year war. After securing...More
More than 100 Muslim scholars from around the world meeting this week in the Saudi holy city of Mecca issued an urgent appeal for peace in Afghanistan as they ended a two-day conference. "The...More
Since Germany humiliatingly crashed out of the World Cup, a team member with Turkish roots has faced a hailstorm of criticism that Muslim and migrant groups charge is openly racist. Mesut Ozil, 29,...More
A Turkish court sentenced 72 defendants to life in prison on Thursday for their roles in clashes on a suspension bridge in Istanbul in which 34 people were killed during an attempted coup two years...More
Under a blazing sun, Youssouf picks food from a Moroccan rubbish dump, one of many young people who scavenges to survive while dreaming of life in nearby Spain. "My mother would be sick if she saw...More
In the flat sun-baked fields north of the Cypriot capital Nicosia, a huge Turkey-funded mosque that opened this week has caused a stir in the largely secular Muslim society. Turkish President Recep...More
Pakistan's military has "no direct role" in nationwide elections due 25 July, the army spokesman said this week, after widespread allegations it is pressuring media and the ruling party in a bid to...More
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer , waging a battle within Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition for tighter immigration controls, noted with satisfaction on Tuesday that 69 Afghans had...More
A German court on Monday urged former German politician and central banker Thilo Sarrazin and his publisher to reach an amicable settlement in a dispute over the publication of Sarrazin's latest book...More
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said work would start soon on "a framework and rules" for Islam in France. In his annual policy address to a joint session of the French parliament, Macron...More
As a university student, Luna Atmowijoyo prayed five times a day, refused to shake hands with men who weren't relatives and was "more fundamentalist" than her pious Muslim parents. But a decade later...More
With the Taliban shrugging off the Afghan government's latest offers of a cease-fire and negotiations, peace seems as elusive as it has been for decades in this war-battered country, both for troops...More
A few hundred asylum-seekers from Yemen have sparked an unprecedented wave of xenophobia in ethnically homogenous South Korea, echoing the anti-immigrant sentiment that has swept Europe and helped...More
The death toll in a suicide bombing at an election rally in northwestern Pakistan rose to 20 on Wednesday as Taliban militants claimed responsibility, officials said, in the first major attack ahead...More
Kuwait's highest court has ordered an opposition leader and several lawmakers imprisoned for 3 ½ years over the 2011 storming of parliament during the country's Arab Spring protests. The ruling by...More
Tens of thousands have returned to their homes in southern Syria since a ceasefire deal between regime ally Russia and rebels to end more than two weeks of deadly bombardment, a monitoring group said...More
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to be sworn in for his second term as head of state on Monday, taking on greater powers than any Turkish leader for decades under a new system condemned by opponents...More
More than a decade ago, Ismail Saleh says, a neighbour wanted to marry one of Saleh's cousins. Following the custom of their clan in northern Iraq, she was meant to wed Saleh, so the family refused...More
Policymakers are moving "backwards" in their efforts to cope with the unprecedented 68.5 million people displaced from their homes around the world, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei told...More
Pope Francis led a summit of Christian leaders on how to promote peace in the Middle East on Saturday and said building walls, occupying territories and religious fanaticism would not resolve...More
A new round of talks began on Friday between Syrian rebels and the Russian military aimed at reaching a deal to end a devastating government onslaught that has displaced thousands of people in the...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be sworn in for a second term on Monday and will wield hefty new constitutional powers as he oversees a radically different system of government. The...More
There was much bonhomie as a few dozen people, including members of Congress and U.S. administration officials, gathered last week for dinner in a posh Washington neighbourhood in honour of Qatar's...More
Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify their souls. But unlike in ancient times, the storied river that runs through Baghdad is fouled by untreated sewage and dead carp. By Philip Issa
The German Islam Scholar Lamya Kaddor
Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf
Jordan and the influx of refugees
The true Samaritans
Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Why the West Fears Islam
The decline of Islamic scientific thought
Don't blame it on al-Ghazali
The Media and ''The Innocence of Muslims''
Against the Islamisation of Muslims
Junaid Jamshed
"I Was a Sinner for Years"