law

Claim: A social media post makes several claims about Muslims in the UK, including but not limited to identifying mayors of several cities as Muslim, stating that most Muslims do not work and instead claim state benefits, and alleging there are over 3,000 mosques in the UK. Fact: All the claims made in the post […]

Claim: Germany’s new law has mandated that foreigners seeking German citizenship must recognise Israel. Fact: Only one state, Saxony-Anhalt, has set the prerequisite for aspiring citizens to affirm Israel’s right to exist before getting a German passport. The draft law is still being debated in the German parliament, and has not been implemented across the […]

Claim: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared it unneccessary for a husband to get permission from his first wife before remarrying. Fact: The CII has not passed any such law recently, in fact, this is an old recommendation.  In 2020, the Supreme Court of Pakistan made it obligatory for a man to seek […]

Claim: Before the parliament’s dissolution, President Arif Alvi approved an anti-Shia bill without consulting any religious schools of thought.  Fact: President Arif Alvi returned the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act 2023 On 16 August 2023, a Twitter user claimed that the president had given his assent for an “anti-Shia” bill, and the community had come out […]

Claim: The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution says the accused’s statement cannot be used against them in court, and they are allowed to change their statements. Fact: The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution does not say that the accused’s statement cannot be used against them in court, nor does it allow them to […]

Claim: Viral image shows a 9-year-old Hindu girl Reshma who was forcibly abducted, taken to a Sufi shrine, converted to Islam and married to a 45-year-old Muslim man from Jacobabad named Wazir Hussain Fact:  The girl in the image was saved from a child marriage marriage by the Kashmore police. Her parents had sold her […]