“Leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to three years for insulting the Egyptian court for overturning the conviction of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the deaths of nearly 300 demonstrators during the Arab Spring revolution in 2011″:
- Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Sentenced to Jail for Insulting Egypt Court (International Business Times)
The woman and her 18-year old daughter “sought police protection against her husband and his brothers alleging that they are not allowing [them] to live as … Muslim[s]…. The petitioner, who is a school teacher, alleged that her husband and the other respondents are now threatening her”:
- Christian Woman Seeks Police Protection Against Husband After Converting to Islam; HC Declines (Times of India)
“As the Quran describes it, humans, though biologically different, are ontologically and ethically-morally the same/similar, … [and] both women and men originated in a single Self (nafs), [they] have been endowed with the same natures, and make up two halves of a single pair” — Islamic scholar Asma Barlas:
-  On Erdogan and Muslim Mothers  (Al-Jazeera)
“Iran will convert more of its higher-grade enriched uranium into reactor fuel under an interim nuclear deal with six world powers, making the material less suitable for building atomic bombs, a diplomatic source said on Monday”:
Pope Francis, the leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, … said it was wrong for anyone to react to terrorism by being ‘enraged’ against Islam. ‘You just can’t say that, just as you can’t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups,’”:
Dian Pelagi, who introduced “Indonesian Islamic fashion to the world’ and who specializes in rainbow-tinted tie-dyed chiffons and silks combined with African detailing that also just happen to cover the head and body” thinks if such “fashion can gain traction in America, it will change people’s perceptions of Islam”:
- Reading the Subtleties of Islamic Fashion (NY Times)
“A Turkish government statement on Saturday confirmed that one of the suicide attacks involved a bomb-loaded vehicle that detonated on the Syrian side of the border. But it denied that the vehicle had crossed into Kobani through Turkey, which would be a first for the extremist fighters” …
- Islamic State Launches Attack on Kobani from Turkish Soil  (Christian Science Monitor)
… while it is also disputed whether the Canadian-Israeli militant with a “checkered past” has been captured by IS. In 2009, she was extradited to the United States where she served three years in prison in connection to what the FBI described as ‘a phony “lottery prize” scheme that targeted victims, mostly elderly’”:
- Canadian-Israeli Woman Reportedly Captured by IS as Airstrikes Increase (Christian Science Monitor)
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