Koran

Iraq tells Sweden it will cut ties if Koran burned again

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said embassy staff were safe but that Iraqi authorities had failed in their responsibility to protect the embassy in accordance with the Vienna Convention

Sweden is considering law change to stop public Koran burnings

An Iraqi immigrant to Sweden burned the Koran outside a Stockholm mosque last week, causing outrage in the Muslim world and condemnation from the pope. The Swedish Security services said such action left the country less safe

All India Muslim Personal Law Board ties itself into Afghan knot over praise for Taliban by two key members

Not just AIMPLB, there appears to be differences among India's Muslim opinion leaders and intelligentsia over Taliban

Muslims in China's 'Little Mecca' fear eradication of Islam as authorities ban minors under 16 from religious activity, study

They have also instructed mosques to display national flags and stop sounding the call to prayer to reduce "noise pollution" in China's Linxia

Indonesia: Muslim protesters march to demand Jakarta governor's resignation

Tens of thousands of hardline Muslim protesters in Indonesia marched on Friday to the presidential palace to demand the resignation of the governor of the capital, Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran.

Algeria: Africa's largest mosque under construction as a 'heavy blow' to radical Islamists

Algeria is building one of the world's largest mosques which officials say will serve as a buffer against radical Islam and crown the legacy of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

The technology of warfare has changed, but rape of women in wartime has not

The technology of warfare has changed tremendously over the years, but its tactic — of widespread rape and enslaving of women — has not

Protesters ransack Muslim prayer hall, burn copies of Koran in Corsica

Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and set fire to copies of the Koran on the French island of Corsica Friday, police said, in an attack condemned by the government.

Religious treasure unearthed: Photos of one of the world's oldest Korans

onservator, Marie Sviergula holds a fragment of a Koran manuscript in the library at the University of Birmingham in Britain July 22, 2015. A British university said on Wednesday that fragments of a Koran manuscript found in its library were from one of the oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text in the world, possibly written by someone who might have known Prophet Mohammad. Radiocarbon dating indicated that the parchment folios held by the University of Birmingham in central England were at least 1,370 years old, which would make them one of the earliest written forms of the Islamic holy book in existence

Can we separate ISIS from Islam? Politically correct dehyphenation won't work

Trying to dehyphenate Islam from ISIS's terrorism is a copout and unlikely to delegitimise this terrorist organisation. As long as holy books are used to perpetrate terror, using the same holy books to counter them will be infructuous.