- “Denmark’s parliament adopt[ed] a law making it illegal to burn the Quran or other religious texts.”
- “Due to the Taliban’s intense interpretation of Islamic law that led to bans on women in universities, some Afghan women have turned to online learning.” 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.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
- Ibrahim Khan, co-founder of IslamicFinanceGuru, a sharī’a-compliant Islamic finance application recently told the FinTech Magazine: “Certain types of income like interest are also not allowed in Islamic law. For instance, a buy-to-let mortgage or highly over-leveraged stock or bond would not be Shariah-compliant, because making money from interest is impermissible.”
- “A Muslim mother of two, who was detained at a Kentucky jail earlier this year, [said] she was forced to remove her hijab and underwent ‘an unnecessary full body strip search,’ which was ‘filmed and projected’ on a TV screen for men and women in the jail’s lobby to see, according to a lawsuit she has filed.”