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Syrian President Assad's Government Has 'Revised' the Holy Quran
State media reported that Assad said that he had commissioned a "new standard version" of Islam’s primary religious text in order to minimize the risk of misinterpretation.
Children Held Without Charge After Raids on 'Boko Haram Training Camps'
The students — some as young as five years old — were detained after their Quranic schools in northern Cameroon were raided, Amnesty International said on Friday.
'Justice Has Not Been Served': One Year Sentence for Afghan Police Who Failed to Stop Mob Killing
The family of Farkhunda, who was fatally beaten and burned by a mob in Kabul while police stood by, say the lenient sentence is just the latest failure of the Afghan justice system.
Family of Afghan Woman Murdered by Mob Says She Was 'Devoted to Islam' and Did Not Burn the Quran
We spoke to the father and brother of the 28-year-old woman whose horrific killing Thursday near a shrine in Kabul was captured in graphic video footage.
Graphic Video Shows Mob Violently Attacking Woman Accused of Burning Quran in Afghanistan
It is unclear whether the 32-year-old woman, whom her family claimed was mentally ill, had actually burned a copy of the Islamic holy book.
Mother of Killed ISIS Fighter Brings De-Radicalization Program to Canada
After Damian Clairmont's death fighting alongside ISIS in Syria, Damian's mother Christianne Boudreau hopes to prevent the radicalization of other westerners.
We Met Some Muslim Australians Who Have Memorised the Entire Qur'an
Dropping by Bankstown for Australia's inaugural International Quranic Competition
Life as a Gay Imam Isn't as Bad as It Sounds
I spoke to three of them, all on a mission to end the marginalization inflicted on LGBT Muslims throughout the world because of their sexuality.
Editing Homophobia out of the “Islamic Tradition”
Slave rape, marital rape, and plural marriage might be unpleasant to consider as part of Islamic sexuality, but they are deeply embedded in our established sources. But I do not believe that Islamic tradition is frozen in stone. Every translation is an...
Islamophobes, Go to Sleep
When I agreed to write a column for VICE, I was granted this space, and I am responsible for what happens in this space. Today, I’m going to use this space to rub your racist and bigoted shit in your own faces.
Queering the Qur’an
Al-Kisa’i al-Kufi is the man who gave us one of the seven canonical readings of the Qur’an in Sunni Islam. He devoted his life to knowing and teaching the Qur’an. Along the way, he apparently fucked dudes. The lips that he used to recite divine...