Austria on Friday decided to cease seven mosques in the country over allegedly running via “foreign funding”, while it also said the concerned clerics would be deported. Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz said that the step has been taken in a bid to “counter political Islam” in Austria. Officials also claim that few mosques have […]
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Saudi authorities arrest seventeen in security crackdown
Saudi Arabia on Saturday said it detained 17 people for “undermining” the kingdom’s security, in what campaigners have dubbed a sweeping crackdown against activists just weeks before a ban on women driving ends. Rights groups earlier reported arrests of at least 11 people last month, mostly identified as women campaigners for the right to drive […]
High Sparrows at Faizabad: Demanding a Walk of Atonement
The Faizabad sit-in urges me to recall a plot from an episode of Game of Thrones in which the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms is detained by the High Sparrow (protector of the Faith of the Seven). Charges against the Queen include violating the teachings of the Faith of the Seven by involving herself in […]