Categories : News

Al-Azhar’s historic fatwa on Shias

Many dead in suicide attack on Iraq Shia – BBC News

See also al-Jazeera

A Shia act of piety or forbidden trend? The debate on self-inflicted wounds on Ashoura

Little girl prepares to have her scalp slashed open in Islamic ritual

See also Wall Street Journal (subscriber only)
The Evening Standard (UK)
Huffington Post
The Independant (UK)
[Seemingly larger amount of coverage in the Western media this year than in previous years. If others have urls of sites to be added to this list, do send them to me.-Ed.]

Journalist and Social Media Activist Arrested after Writing Critical Letter to Minister of Interior about Torture Suffered in 2011 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

See ADHRB Newsletter.

Afghanistan: New attack kills 14 worshipers at a mosque

See Washington Post

Ashura festival attack kills Shia Muslims at Afghan mosque – BBC News

See also alJazeera

In Saudi Arabia: Can It Really Change?

Bahrain: today’s dissolution of main opposition party is ‘flagrant attack on freedom of expression’

The myth and history of Sunni-Shia divide