The foreign minister of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, flew to Myanmar for emergency talks on Sunday as the Rohingya crisis continues. Minister Retno Marsudi arrived in Myanmar's capital, Yangon, as protestors in her own capital, Jakarta, launched a Molotov cocktail at the Myanmar embassy.

Since August 24, 2017, the latest spate of state violence on the Rohingya Muslims, one of the world’s most persecuted peoples, is taking place after an alleged insurgent attack on the police and border outposts. Myanmar’s army has been carrying out a systematic and indiscriminate campaign against Rohingya

Legislation requiring people to "stick to traditional national clothes and culture" has been introduced in Tajikistan - a move widely interpreted as an attempt to stop women from wearing Islamic clothing. Women in the central Asian country traditionally wear a scarf tied behind the head, rather than a hijab, which wraps under the chin.

Recently there was a huge uproar when news about the existence of the Atheist Republic Kuala Lumpur Club (which had held its annual gathering in the capital) went viral in the social media. The Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, when asked about the matter,