What are the Muslim leaders' views on democracy?

Leaders of the global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called on Australian Muslims to spurn secular democracy and Western notions of moderate Islam and join the struggle for a transnational Islamic state.

Source: Islamist leader Burhan Hanif tells Aussie Muslims to 'shun democracy' (News.com.au).

What do conservative Muslims think about pornography?

The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the world's leader in online searches for pornographic material

Source: No. 1 Nation in Sexy Web Searches? Call it Pornistan (Fox News).

How Muslim authorities improve people's lives?

Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

Source: Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction (Reuters).

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).