The Friday prayer in the Islamic Republic of Iran is traditionally the day on which the country’s rulers issue fatwas, rulings that guide Islamic law.The fatwas can influence public life, but it’s usually only the government that has the power to impose them.But the Friday prayer, traditionally one of the holiest days in the Shiite
SHAH FAYAL/AFP/Getty Images SHAH FARISAL/Getty Press A Muslim man in Saudi Arabia has said he would never wear a hijab if he could, and said that women who wear the headscarf should be ashamed of their religion.The comments from the 61-year-old, who is the spiritual head of the local mosque, came as the kingdom is
Part 1 of a two-part series on the King Faisal Mosque shooting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that left one person dead and two others injured. It begins with the basics and goes into the details. What did the shooter do? This is what we know: The Saudi police and the King’s Saudi Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the shooting, but