This Istanbul poster, by Burak Delier, depicts a woman wearing a chador made from the EU flag (AFP) A conference of Muslim prayer leaders, known as imams, from all over Europe, is due to open in ...

This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...

Dozens of Pakistani lawmakers rumbled through the streets of Islamabad on Thursday with one voice: Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. The “blasphemers” in ...

Islam is suffering from an image problem in the West, and Muslims there should become more politically active to help reverse that perception. That's the recommendation of Muslim scholars from around ...

The Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs concluded Wednesday the 11th Ramadan dialogue programme 'Wa Amenhum mein Khawf' (secure them from fear), at the Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab ...

(Reuters) — Art from the Islamic world will be shown in the heart of the British Museum, instead of on the sidelines, in two new galleries funded by a Malaysian foundation which hopes to offset the ...

Over at On Faith, American-Iranian Muslim Omid Safi points out that the idea that Islam forbids depicting the prophet Mohammed is wrong. That is actually not the case, and marks yet another example of ...

Many Muslims upset by the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper, argue that the issue is not about free speech but about the insult to a ...

In 1807, American readers were titillated by a potboiler entitled “History of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin.” Its salacious story was summed up by its pithy subtitle: “Who was six ...

The ‘Splainer (as in, “You’ve got some ‘splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in which RNS gives you everything you need to know about current events to help you hold your own at a cocktail party ...