The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters is among a few armed groups still waging a separatist uprising in the southern Philippines, homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Catholic nation.

This effort to draw on Islam itself is key since, in the contemporary Muslim world, arguments for religious freedom are unlikely to have much traction unless they are seen as issuing from (or at ...

Shiite Islam offers Iranians a standard it views as just. Iran calls itself an Islamic republic. Many Iranians may appreciate ...

Islamic religious scholars have been clear for years in delineating the differences between the legal limits of freedom of expression within Islam, according to the sharia, or the body of Islamic ...

It is not merely the absence of chains. It is freedom from tyranny in all its forms — physical, spiritual and moral. True ...

Afghan Abdul Rahman, who converted to Christianity, had been charged with rejecting Islam and potentially faced the death penalty. But what do Islamic teachings say about the issue? Freedom of belief ...

Turkish police have detained four employees of the satirical magazine LeMan over a controversial cartoon which authorities ...

Fighters determined to install Islamic rule across Somalia won a strategic town Wednesday, entering Jowhar after their secular rivals fled their last stronghold in the south, witnesses said.

Freedom is a prerequisite for pluralism, and pluralism is an inevitable consequence of freedom, and a pluralistic society of ideas and beliefs is inconceivable without freedom. Although the term ...

Philippine troops, backed by airstrikes and artillery fire, killed 11 suspected Islamic militants near a hinterland village in the country’s south, authorities said Saturday, in one of the ...