Do Muslims fight harmful traditions they don't consider Islamic?

Dozens of children are being mutilated every month all over this country including Freetown with politicians and law enforcement agents turning a blind eye, and most times with their full support.

Source: No Let-Up in Female Genital Mutilation (allAfrica).

What can be done about the football fever in Muslim countries?

Two Somali football fans have been killed by Islamic militants after being caught watching World Cup matches.

Source: World Cup 2010: Somali football fans executed for watching matches (Telegraph).

How are pets seen by Muslims?

Dogs are considered "unclean" under Islamic tradition but, while relatively rare in Iran, some people do keep them as pets.
By issuing a fatwa -- a religious ruling -- Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi has sent a clear message that this trend must stop.
"Friendship with dogs is a blind imitation of the West," he was quoted as saying in Javan daily. "There are lots of people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children."

Source: Iran cleric says dogs "unclean" and not to be kept as pets (Reuters).

Should the Muslim Law be applied to non-Muslims?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being investigated by Pakistani police under a section of the penal code that makes blasphemy against Muhammad punishable by death.

Source: Pakistani lawyer petitions for death of Mark Zuckerberg (The Register).

What is the traditional Muslim view on weddings?

A 17-year-old Sydney girl has saved herself from being forced to go to Lebanon for an arranged marriage by calling the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

Source: Police save Sydney girl from forced marriage (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Is diversity encouraged in Islam?

It follows nearly 40 years of escalating persecution in Pakistan against Ahmadi Muslims by both governmental and vigilante means. While extremists commit terrorist acts, the political leaders of Pakistan have tacitly allowed the violence by stigmatizing the nation’s two million Ahmadis under the law, much in the way that segregation laws in the American South created a climate amenable to lynching.

Source: Grief Links Members of a Persecuted Muslim Sect (The New York Times).

Does Islam promote love?

A Saudi court has convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall.

Source: Saudi convicts young man for kissing woman in mall (Associated Press).

What does Islam add to the culture of other countries?

Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances.

 Source: Immigrant youths riot in Sweden, burning down school (BBC).

Do Muslims appreciate art and cultural differences?

Muslim teens at a Copenhagen concert threw eggs at pop icon who shares a name with a holy city of Islam

Source: Muslim teens enraged by pop star’s name  (The Copenhagen Post )

For Islam, is there compulsion in religion?

Over 50 Pakistani Hindus have converted to Islam in the Sialkot district of Punjab within a week (between May 14 and May 19) under pressure from their Muslim employers in a bid to retain their jobs and survive in the Muslim-dominated society.

Source: 57 Pakistani Hindus convert to Islam 'under pressure' (DNA India).

How do Muslims treat each other?

Dozens of young people with immigrant backgrounds took part in Sunday’s melee – mainly Somalis and Kurds. Kurds have said that there have been tensions between the groups before, because some of the Somalis, many of whom are devout Muslims, have been known to chide Kurds for their more worldly dress and behaviour.

Source: Linnanmäki Disturbance Highlights Tensions between Somalis and Kurds in Finland (YLE Uutiset).

Do Muslims give other people rights in moderate Islamic countries?

There has been a series of attacks on Christians in Turkey in recent years.

 Source: Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey (BBC).

How are women seen by Muslim leaders?

Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk should be conveyed.

Source:  Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding (AOL News).

Does Islam bring peace to people's lifes?

A study that shows boys growing up in religious Muslim families are more likely to be violent seems set to reignite the debate over religion and integration, a media report said on Sunday.

Source: Religious Muslim boys more violent, study says (The Local)

Does Islam promote integration?

Leaders of the Muslim community in Garden City are asking the city to set aside a section of the city cemetery for their members.

Source: Garden City Muslims seek section of cemetery (Associated Press).

Are Saudi women happy with orthodox Islam?

In an unprecedented outburst toward Saudi Arabia's religious police, a married woman shot at several officers in a patrol car after she was caught in an "illegal seclusion" with another man in the province of Ha'il on Tuesday.

Source: Woman opens fire on religious police officers (Lost Angeles Times).

Why do prisoners convert to Islam?

Inmates say their reasons for converting include the protection of belonging to a gang and perceived material perks offered to Muslims. 

Source: Prisoners convert to Islam to win perks and get protection from powerful Muslim gangs (Daily Mail Reporter).