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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).