The Taliban in Afghanistan shocked the world late last month when they beheaded 17 people, allegedly for the crime of dancing at a mixed-gender gathering. Which prompts the question: Does Islam forbid ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A group of young Afghans – both women and men – is coming together in the country’s war-torn capital to practice a mystical Sufi Islamic dance. The group’s founder says she ...
Popular Islamic musician Saoti Arewa was filmed dancing closely with a woman at a burial reception held in Gbagada, Lagos The video went viral online, with many questioning whether such behaviour was ...
Drums pounded hard as a circle of men, their shoulder-length hair whirling through the air, spun their heads in a trance. In the middle of the circle, other men pierced their heads with knives and ...
Islamabad (AsiaNews) - Sentenced to death for having danced at a wedding. An exemplary punishment, so that others do not commit the same crime. This is the logic of the Shariah courts in the tribal ...
On Jan. 22, The Durango Herald ran a brilliantly written column by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, headlined “Don’t dance around Islamic extremism.” The author’s point was: Call it what it ...
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