- Italy‘s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni recently stated that there is an incompatibility between “Islamic culture or a certain interpretation of Islamic culture and the rights and values of our civilization,” emphasizing that she would “not allow Sharia law to be implemented in Italy.”
- “Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance presented its 3D Hajj app to visitors at the Jusoor exhibition in Morocco.”
- “A man accused of killing a powerful senior cleric was executed in Iran,” amid rising concerns regarding the country’s harsh interpretations of Islamic criminal law and its application of the death penalty. 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.”
- In Malaysia, some lawyers have argued that “[s]tate shariah criminal enactments can be used to charge Muslim men for enticing Muslim married women for sex.”