The spread of photographs of same-gender marriages conducted by two men in Bali arouses criticism and reactions of rejection. Local government and customary elders, members of Parliament and generally people consider it as misconduct, violating the norms and perpetrators deserve sanctions. This confirms that same-gender marriage was rejected and is illegal.

“The tyrannical and oppressive Syrian regime added to their record of massacres a new massacre in Douma in the countryside of Damascus on the 16th of August. This was when its planes launched airstrikes and bombed the people’s market at a peak time with four missiles leading to more than 110 martyrs and over three hundred injured.

Chinese media reported that last week a group of Uyghur Muslim women wearing the Niqab were taken away by armed police in the Henan province of China which is 3000 km away from the Xinjiang province where the highest concentration of Muslims in the country live. These arrests follow the repressive Chinese government’s banning of the Niqab in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang this January, which they justified under the…

Recent media reports have revealed that Rohingya Muslims, including women and children attempting to take shelter in abandoned schools and community centres from tropical Cyclone Komen and heavy monsoon rains that submerged their villages and refugee camps in the township of Kyauktaw, Myanmar, were turned away by the state’s police and army.