- Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s special representative on Afghanistan, recently stated: ““They say it [i.e. restrictions on women’s access to education] is Islamic. It is not Islamic. It may be the [Afghan] tribal or cultural [practice], but it is not Islamic.” 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.”
- President Joe Biden announced plans to nominate the first Muslim to serve on a federal appeals court: “Adeel Mangi, a Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler litigation partner who was born in Karachi, Pakistan, will be nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,” the White House said.
- “A Muslim woman and her daughter [in Malaysia] [have] challeng[ed] amendments to a sharia law made by a state government in 2019, saying they go against the Federal Constitution.”
- “The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs [of Qatar] in coordination with the Community College of Qatar (CCQ) [announced that they were planning to] launch an Associate Diploma Programme in Da’wah and Islamic Sciences.”
- “A Sheffield [UK] primary school [announced that it was] investigating how non-Halal meat came to be dished up to pupils.”