Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia’s most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive.
“It’s a brighter spot in the history of Sudan,†says George Clooney, who has been personally engaged with Sudan for several years. “I’ve been committed to Sudan since 2005, and you don’t abandon a place when it’s going through its changes.â€
On June 7, President Obama appointed Azizah al-Hibri, a Muslim professor and scholar, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
A group of Montreal women has demonstrated in protest against a decision by the Quebec soccer association to sack a referee because she wears a hijab, according to CBC News.
Ibrahim Qashqoush, one of Syria’s protest songs’ composers and singers, was found brutally killed with his neck cut and his throat carved out.
About half a million people demonstrated in Hama on Friday to demand the departure of President Bashar Al Assad’s regime, activists said, as the US and French ambassadors travelled to the flashpoint city to show solidarity with the victims of the government crackdown.
More than 2,300 south Sudanese have died in tribal and rebel violence this year, the United Nations said on Thursday, in an ominous reminder of the insecurity of the region in its final days before independence.
Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared emaciated and scarred, but in his first public sighting since the June bombing of his presidential compound in Sana’a that forced him to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, clearly had not lost any of his feistiness or defiance.
Spiritual leaders from Russia’s large minority of Muslims asked President Dmitry Medvedev to press Saudi Arabia to increase the number of worshippers allowed to perform the annual Haj pilgrimage.
The US House of Representatives voted 407-6 to pass a non-binding resolution backing the suspension of funds to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority should it pursue its bid for a unilateral declaration of statehood by the United Nations in September.