“As for your position on the well-known organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which you consider harmless, this organization was created in 1953 in Jerusalem by one of your, conditionally, colleagues - a judge of the Shariah court. In its statutory fundamental documents, it directly proclaims the need to create a world Khilafah (Caliphate) by seizing power and promoting its ideas in various countries of the world, and the Russian state is no…

The BBC reported that the Indian cabinet has approved funds for a census and a population survey to be held next year despite weeks of protests over a citizenship law that critics say is anti-Muslim. Authorities say the updated National Population Register (NPR) will be a comprehensive list of all residents. However, critics say it will be a list from which "doubtful citizens" will be asked to prove they are…

The 33-year-old former lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University became the latest to be given a death sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan. Junaid Hafeez had been arrested in 2013 over alleged “blasphemous” comments on Facebook. (Source: the diplomat)

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