The Latest Breaking News from Islam

In recent years, voters in the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia, have preferred to support candidates with solid religious personas and a lifestyle and appearances adhering to Islamic values. This preference is in line with the increasing trend towards Islamic piety in the Muslim majority country.

Negative slogans falsely raised in the name of religions or cultures only represent themselves, reaffirmed Muslim World League (MWL) Secretary-General Mohammad Al-Issa in a speech he gave during the unveiling of a “knotted gun” statue at the MWL headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday. “We reaffirm that we are advocates of…

Councillor Alanna Vine has been permanently expelled by the party following an investigation into her online activity.

“Rudy was unhinged,” writes former US attorney Geoffrey Berman of Mr Giuliani’s behaviour at a dinner party in 2016

Ex-mayor derailed ‘train wreck’ dinner with clients and colleagues, then was later considered for secretary of state

Indonesia’s top Islamic scholars have urged Jakarta not to follow the lead of neighbouring countries in decriminalising gay sex, as many in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation continue to view same-sex relationships as deviant.

Hadi Matar said Sir Salman was ‘someone who attacked Islam’ but did not confirm that his actions were driven by Iran’s fatwa.

Dr Al-Qadri defended reported comments about gay sex and the spread of monkeypox within the LGBTQAI+ community

The assault on Rushdie is an attack on those who speak out against all forms of extremism

Late last month, a high school teacher in the Indonesian province of Yogyakarta reportedly forced a female Muslim student to wear the hijab – veils worn by Muslim women – causing her to become anxious and depressed.

Artifacts from one of two Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 at the famous Bamiyan site in central Afghanistan were stolen from storage immediately after the Islamist group returned to power last August, according to people familiar with the case.