From James Foley to Steven Sotloff, the tragic killings of both journalists by the militant group that calls itself the Islamic State and might be more widely known as ISIS, is not only alarming as an ...

This article is an attempt to highlight the basic tenets and beliefs in Islam. Sometimes, people may use religion to justify their actions, whether it is permissible within the religion or not, so it ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in the Arab Gulf nation of Bahrain on Thursday have handed down yearlong prison sentences to three people for debating Islamic theology in a series of ...

Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of Mosul, arrive at Dohuk province, Aug. 4, 2014 The news coming out of Iraq is really ...

Muslim-majority countries face complex economic and political challenges, and one proposed solution has been the establishment of political systems grounded in Islamic principles. In response, various ...

Free-thinking bloggers in some Muslim countries face criminal prosecution and even death for expressing their ideas. There are Islamic scholars who say this is a distortion of what Islam teaches. Some ...

In the name of Islam, imams across the Palestinian Authority-administered areas and in the Muslim world in general preach a destructive form of jihad not only toward Jews and Israel but also toward ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Tuesday, ISIS released the latest in a series of gruesome filmed murders of its ...

The Malaysia Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has stressed that all branches of Shia teachings deviate from Sunni Islam as practised in this country, and violate Islamic law. With this, its ...

When Tobias Tubbs was incarcerated in a state prison in Lancaster, he immersed himself in books to learn more about his religion, Islam. But it wasn’t until a group of Muslim volunteers from Orange ...