Tarek Fatah / Toronto Sun / August 29, 2019 ou may never have heard of Saba Kord-Afshari, but the 20-year-old Iranian woman was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday for the crime of defying the country’s ‘hijab law’ that forbids all women in Iran from Continue Reading
A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam
Aysha Khan / Religion & Politics / July 16, 2019 Once a fringe argument restricted to extreme anti-Muslim corners of the internet, the idea that Islam is not actually a religion, and therefore does not qualify for religious liberty protections, has rapidly gained salience in mainstream Continue Reading
Sharia’s Winding Path Into Modernity By Mustafa Akyol
In June, Americans in about two dozen cities joined a “March Against Sharia.” For these protesters, the Arabic term is a code word for the oppression of women and men in the name of God — horrors like stoning and beheading. Since such brutalities do indeed happen in the name of Shariah, they may Continue Reading
Sharia and the Separation of Mosque and State
By Jayson Casper If sharia law is for Muslims, what is its place in a Muslim-majority nation? If the answer seems obvious, that may be part of the problem. But another part is understanding sharia law in the first place, and in a helpful article on the blog of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Continue Reading