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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

"Coloured Abayas" campaign launched in Sri Lanka

A leading Muslim organisation in Sri Lanka is conducting a campaign to persuade Muslim women to give up black abaya and instead wear coloured ones to make the Islamic sartorial custom more acceptable to the Sinhalese majority in the country.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

A Muslim girl in Syria punished by stoning till death for creating an account on Facebook.



A Syrian girl has been stoned to death for opening a Facebook account, it has been claimed.

The girl, named in media reports as Fatoum Al-Jassem, was sentenced to death by a Sharia court in Al-Reqqa after it ruled having a Facebook account was immoral behaviour.

She was taken to the court by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants after she was caught using the social networking site, it has been reported.