A hijab-wearing Somali refugee has won the fourth annual Miss Muslimah USA pageant. Zehra Abukar, 23, who lived in Turkey for seven years before moving to the US in 2014, represented her state of Maine in the fourth annual Miss Muslimah USA competition. The pageant is the brainchild of clothing…
A Muslim man has been ordered to pay over EUR 2,000 for refusing to shake hands of prefect in France because she was a woman. The ruling by a court in Bourges comes after the man refused to shake Catherine Ferrier's hand. At the time, she was the prefect of…
A Malaysian trans influencer has denied prostituting herself on social media after a Muslim preacher called her bikini snaps “porn”, and demanded that netizens boycott her. The 35-year-old cosmetics entrepreneur, who is reported to have been born male, has often been criticised by Malaysia’s religious authorities over her gender identity.…
An immunologist in Norway has called on Muslims to relax their fasting rules on Ramadan as dry mucous membranes from not drinking increase the risk of viral infections. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and observed by Muslims as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community, begins…