- “A unit of Djibouti-based Salaam Group launched in Uganda . . . as the country’s first Islamic banking-compliant financial institution, the Ugandan president’s office said.”
- The Taliban leader has announced that the country “is resuming publicly stoning women to death.” 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.”
- “‘The Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the implementation of Sharia law does not take care about international or other pressures and does not consider the reactions to be pressure,’ said Abdul Rahim Rashid, spokesperson for the Supreme Court.” 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.”
- Indian Muslim women have expressed varying views in the wake of a state’s ban of polygamy, one arguing that “[p]olygamy is permissible in Islam under strict rules and regulations but it is misused.”
- “The number of transactions on partner financing products has doubled in Tatarstan after the law on Islamic banking came into force, and the total amount exceeded 1 billion rubles, Ruslan Khaliullin, the head of the Partner Finance Division at the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan, said at the press conference[.]”
- “‘Damaging the property of non-Muslims goes against the teachings of Islam, and [we] will defend the rights of all Malaysians,’ sa[id] Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal [of Malaysia].”