Encourage moves toward religious freedom by Islamic leaders
By Johnnie Moore, who is a Southern Baptist minister from California and was the 2017 recipient of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “medal of valor” for his work on behalf of […]
France honours gendarme who sacrificed his life in Islamist attack
Source: Reuters BY Richard Lough PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron led national tributes on Wednesday to the gendarme who switched places with a woman hostage during an attack […]
Pakistani court allows Islamist party to enter elections
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has ordered the country’s elections oversight body to register an Islamist party backed by a radical cleric who carries a U.S. […]
AP Exclusive: China’s Uighurs work to fend off pull of jihad
Source: Associated Press By GERRY SHIH KAYSERI, Turkey (AP) — Iminjin Qari felt upbeat as he drove to Istanbul’s airport with three empty buses and a simple task: pick up […]
Reciprocal rage: why Islamist extremists and the far right need each other
Source: Vox News How two complementary extremisms are defining global politics. By Sean Illing@seanillingsean.illing@vox.com Dec 19, 2017, 8:50am EST Javier Zarracina/Vox Global politics in the early 21st century is being defined by […]
Our Renaming of Dawn’s Editorial: Pakistan’s March to Islamism
Dawn Editorial: Faizabad surrender is a blow to the legitimacy of government and all state institutions Source: Dawn IT is a surrender so abject that the mind is numb and […]
Egyptian village where mosque was attacked had been warned
Source: Yahoo News BY HAMZA HENDAWI , Associated Press•November 26, 2017 Discarded shoes of victims remain outside Al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt. a day after attackers killed […]
How I divorced Islamic State
Source: BBC News The British ex-wife of an American leader in the so called Islamic State describes her journey out of extremism. Tania Georgelas met her husband John, an American […]
Pakistan issues ‘last warning’ to Islamists blocking route into capital
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities issued a final warning on Friday to members of an Islamist party blocking a main road into the capital, raising […]
Islamist Rally Cripples Life in Pakistani Capital
Source: Voice of America By Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Several thousand Islamists in Pakistan have effectively blocked a main crossing near the national capital, Islamabad, crippling the daily life of millions […]
Islamists rally near Islamabad, demand removal of minister
Source: Associated Press By MUNIR AHMED ISLAMABAD (AP) — More than 3,000 Islamists camped out on the edge of Pakistan’s capital, demanding the removal of the country’s law minister over […]
Indonesia’s bid to root out Islamists throws spotlight on universities
Source: Reuters By Ed Davies, Agustinus Beo Da Costa NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – When students at Indonesia’s prestigious Institute of Agricultural Studies swore an oath to support a caliphate in the […]
Book Review: Boko Haram – The History of an African Jihadist Movement
Publisher: Princeton University Press Author: Alexandar Thurston, is visiting assistant professor of African studies at Georgetown University and the author of Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics. A comprehensive […]
How America Changed Its Approach to Political Islam
Source: The Atlantic BY SHADI HAMID, PETER MANDAVILLE, AND WILLIAM MCCANTS Sometimes Islamist groups succeed. Sometimes they underperform. But they almost always matter. This means that the United States needs answers for […]
In Pakistan, once-fringe Islamist radicals are making their way into mainstream politics
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable September 24 ISLAMABAD — One candidate was from a banned group, its leader under house arrest for past ties to armed militants. The other was from […]
The future of Islamism: Can political Islam make it in the modern world?
Source: The Economist The auguries are mixed. “DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what […]
Former senior al Shabaab leader says militants should leave group
Source: Reuters BY Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The one-time deputy leader of Somali Islamist militants al Shabaab called on Tuesday for others to quit the group following his defection […]
UK could face Islamist threat for decades, former MI5 chief warns
Source: BBC News The UK may continue to face the threat of Islamist terrorism for another “20 to 30 years”, the former head of MI5 has said. Lord Evans told […]
Pakistan extends house arrest of Islamist blamed for 2008 Mumbai attacks
Source: Reuters By Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has extended by two months the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States of masterminding 2008 attacks on […]
Singapore detains first woman citizen suspected of Islamist radicalism
Source: Reuters Singapore said on Monday it has detained an assistant child-care worker suspected of trying to join Islamic State and to find a militant husband in Syria, and was […]