- Algerian scholar on Islam, Said Djabelkhir, was sentenced to three years of prison for “offending Islam” in three Facebook posts calling for “reflection” on Islam’s foundational texts.
- Pakistan‘s Prime Minister Imran Khan urged Western European countries to criminalize blasphemy against Islam.
- Faith-based investing opportunities have grown over the past years, as financial institutions and investment firms continue to adopt sharī’a-compliant investing models and as the number of entities such as the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions guiding Muslims in their investments continue to increase.
- The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the three-year-old museum in the UAE, newly acquired a cache of of more than Islamic 2,800 coins from the Medieval Era.