The father of a teenager encouraged to marry and rape his 12-year-old cousin was jailed for three years today. The 54-year-old man was arrested by Scotland Yard child abuse detectives over an arranged marriage at a house in Woolwich, south...

Translation *By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what...

The Saharan sands stretching north from this fabled outpost have long been a trade route and cultural crossroads, and this past year has brought worrying signs that the desert might also help bring a violent brand of Islam to moderate parts of...

It always sounded so obnoxious to me when American pundits would chastise the Muslim world for supposedly being too tied to religious law and then contrast this demonized (and false) portrayal with that of the ostensibly secular and idealized (and...

A Mosque was recently vandalized in France - home to western Europe’s largest Muslim population numbered at 5-6 million or 10% of the population. When Muslim worshipers showed up at the Bilal Mosque early Sunday morning, they found two...

Persecution of Christians is an ongoing problem in Pakistani villages, and the police often do absolutely nothing to ameliorate the problem. In one particularly violent incident, rather than coming to the aid of the victims, the police had...

It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates. Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been embroiled in so much controversy. Been so misjudged, misunderstood,...

The Minister of Interior is reported to have ordered the immediate detention and flogging of a 75-year-old woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, along with two Saudi Arabian men known only as Fahad and...

One is often asked whether or not Pakistan will survive the current crisis. You tell them that, yes, Pakistan will survive. After all, territories don’t grow feet to walk away with. There is a sigh of relief and those asking the...

“Veiled Voices” is a documentary into the lives of three women - one Lebanese, one Syrian, one Egyptian - and as with “Beirut Diaries” it lets these women speak for themselves. The three are Muslim women who are religious...