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 )

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).

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)

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).