Portal:Islam/Selected anniversaries/May

• 11 May 1953 - Inaugural meeting of Islamic Association of China in Beijing, a nationwide organization assisting religious Muslims in China
• 15 May 2008 - 15 Ex-Muslim Christians incarcerated by government in Iran on charges of apostasy from Islam
• 16 May 2007 - Prince Khalid al Faisal (pictured) appointed as new governor of Makkah Province in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• 23 May 2007 - Arab League issues statement "strongly condemn[ing] the criminal and terrorist acts carried out by the terrorist group" Fatah al-Islam, adding that the group has "no relation to the Palestinian question or Islam"