- Some observers have estimated that up to 80% of Islamic marriages in Ghana remain unregistered because “there are no forms available for Muslims to register their marriages under the Mohammedan or Islamic law.”
- “The European Union representatives in a United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s session said that the ban on female education [in Afghanistan] deprived women and girls of enjoying the human right to education, [and] increase[d] risks of experiencing gender-based violence.”
- A reporter recently observed that in Afghanistan, “[i]n court, the Hanafi School of Islamic law is applied to resolve disputes and punish any act that the judge may deem punishable. In public, the police and officials of the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice summarily discipline citizens who are found to be in violation of the Taliban’s uncodified rules of proper behaviour.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.”
- “The Metropolitan Law Firm [in Nigeria] has launched an endowment fund under the Islamic Banking guidelines to cater to the education of indigent Nigerians for basic to tertiary institutions.”
- An International Monetary Fund study found that “[t]he Islamic financial system accounts for less than 2% of global finance, but it is present in 34 countries and systemically important in 15 jurisdictions. Only two countries, Iran and Sudan, have fully Islamic banking systems.”
- “Seven men who wore shorts exposing their thighs were hauled up by the Kelantan Islamic Religious Affairs Department (Jaheik) [Malaysia] for not covering their “aurat” during a raid on a shop in Tanah Merah suspected of selling shisha last Friday.”
- Some Milwaukee restaurants have expanded hours and food options during Ramadan to fit the dietary needs of their Muslim clientele.