In 2022, he had denounced a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning same-sex relationships issued by the South African Muslim Judicial Council shortly after the release of a documentary showcasing ...

These questions laid the foundation for "The Bride," marking the director's debut film. FESPACO, a pan-African Film and Television Festival started in 1969, whose aim to contribute to the ...

In very traditional areas all over the Middle East and North Africa, for example, one is still likely to see veiled women. But, in places like Indonesia or Malaysia, and the US, some Muslim women wear ...

A bride’s father went viral over the advice he gave to his son-in-law at the latter’s wedding ceremony The man told the groom that it was not his wife’s duty to cook for him and went on to elaborate ...

“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.” — Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Each ...

JOHANNESBURG – Seventy Christians have been beheaded with machetes or large knives, according to multiple groups that monitor terrorism and persecution, by Islamist militants in the Democratic ...

3 dates, 3 months, and 300 questions — what Hulu’s new series ‘Muslim Matchmaker’ teaches us about being ... and the couple tied the knot earlier this year in Oman. Amir and Hannan, an ...

Speaking to PinkNews about the killing of the South African imam, UK-based queer Muslim Al asked if someone like Hendricks, who was known around the world, can be killed out in the open, then “what ...

Rest In Peace, Muhsin Hendricks..... The world’s first openly gay Muslim imam, Muhsin Hendricks, was fatally shot in South Africa, sparking rumors of an alleged hate crime, CNN reports.

Faisal Sulaiman, president of South African Muslim Network (Samnet), said there was no basis in Islamic law or practice for murder. “The motive at this stage is purely speculation. There has ...

A man regarded as the first openly gay Muslim imam has been fatally shot while sitting in a car in South Africa in what many are calling an assassination because of his teachings. Muhsin Hendricks ...

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