Political dissidents aren't the only people facing brutal treatment in Iran: the country's non-Muslim minorities are regularly persecuted by both state and society. So why doesn't the West take notice?
Despite the gruesome nature of Marwa el-Sherbini's murder in a German courtroom by her neighbour, the western media have shied away from telling her story.
The recent civil unrest by Muslim Uighurs in China is not about Islam, as the Government alleges -- it's about economics, writes Josh Chin.
A new Turkish game show challenges a Muslim imam, a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk to convert one of 10 atheists to their religion of choice, with new converts winning a trip to Mecca, Jerusalem or Tibet. Plus eternal salvation, presumably.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made waves with his calls to ban the burqa from being worn in public. His sentiments are caught up in a collision of French feminism, nationalism and secularism.
Less than a year after fleeing in the face of an Islamist insurgency, Ethiopian forces have come back to help prevent a moderate government from collapsing at the hands of militant Islamists.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared the Islamic burqua a sign of the "subjugation" and "submission of women". But what if a woman chooses to wear it of her own accord? asks Salon's Broadsheet.
A working paper [PDF] from Duke University has found it's very difficult to convince the 11% of Americans who still believe Barack Obama is a Muslim that he is, in fact, a Christian.
Obama's statement in Cairo that "I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal" is a subtle but strong statement in support of Muslim women, says Tracy Clark-Flory.
President Obama's address in Cairo offered an eloquent case for American values and global objectives, said The Washington Post. Watch what they were talking about.