Actress Alyssa Milano has been asked to disavow her friend and fellow #MeToo movement supporter Linda Sarsour, a controversial Muslim women’s rights activist who has been accused of antisemitism and support for Sharia law. Speaking on a panel at the Politicon conference in Los Angeles, Milano was confronted by conservative journalist Laura Loomer over her […]
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The world’s biggest Muslim country wants to boost sharia finance
Still pretty interesting THE Indonesia Stock Exchange greeted its latest listing on May 9th: that of BRIsyariah, the Islamic arm of state-controlled Bank Rakyat Indonesia, the country’s biggest bank by assets. The initial public offering (IPO) of 27% of BRIsyariah’s equity raised around 1.3trn rupiah ($ 92m). Islam outlaws the payment of interest, the basis […]
Meet the defiant young Iranians swapping Sharia law for life on the road
Nicola Zolin March 12, 2018 Share this article Determined not to have their dreams defined by their conservative government, a new generation of Iranians are hitchhiking and couchsurfing their way to freedom. Even if, for now at least, that freedom can only be found in private. The air in this tiny bar is thick with […]
Top German court orders retrial of ‘Sharia police’ street vigilantes
Germany’s top court has tossed out a lower court’s ruling that found a group of uniformed German Salafists, who wandered the streets of a suburban town telling residents to abide by the strict Muslim code, in line with the law. Germany’s Federal Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that the lower court did not taken […]
Muslim Brotherhood expands presence in Germany, seeks to establish Sharia law – security official
Islamic radicals from the Muslim Brotherhood are actively trying to gain a “monopoly” over mosques in the eastern German state of Saxony to attract more followers and increase their influence, the local security service chief has warned. READ MORE: German police want refugees kept away from carnival The members of the radical Salafist organization, the […]