Should Terrorism be Defined by Religion?
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed ‘by ultra-Orthodox Jew’
Source: BBC Israeli police have arrested a man after six people were wounded in a stabbing at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem. A police spokesperson identified the suspect as […]
Children at risk of radicalisation to double
Source: Telegraph By Tom Whitehead, Security Editor Lure of Syria and Isil blamed for sharp increase in children referred to Channel counter-radicalisation programme The number of children and teenagers being […]
Turkey arrests hundreds of suspected terrorists, Prime Minister says
(CNN)—Turkey arrested nearly 600 terror suspects as warplanes intensified attacks against ISIS and other militant targets in a daylong operation, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday. The strikes also targeted […]
Norway’s Convicted Mass Murderer Admitted To University Of Oslo
http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=55a94b8efe34443cdc00036c&autoPlay=false Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, known for killing 77 people in 2011, has been admitted to the University of Oslo. He will study political science from his cell […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Welcomes PM’s Plans to Tackle Extremism
Source: itv.com David Cameron sets out five-year plan to combat extremism David Cameron has set out a five-year plan to combat home-grown extremism, promising to tackle the “failures of integration” that […]
Sinister ISIS plot kills 120, wounds 140 in Iraq
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Book Review: Terrorists at the Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace
Amazon Book Review: Book by Jonathan Powell (Author) Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, […]
The ISIS Mirage vs the Islamic Reality
Source: Patheos By Saliha Malik I am a woman, a westerner, and a convert to Islam. But—as I’m often asked nowadays—to which version of Islam? This is an important question as news media floods our timelines with reports of Muslim women in the west joining the terrorist group known as ISIS. […]
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
7 July London bombings: Flowers laid in memory of victims
Source: BBC Flowers have been laid in memory of the 52 people killed in the 7 July bombings – 10 years to the hour since suicide bombers began the attacks. Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson were among those who laid wreaths in Hyde Park. A service […]
Video: Islamic Curriculum On Peace and Counter Terrorism, by Dr. Tahir ul Qadri
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (Urdu: محمد طاہر القادری) (born 19 February 1951) is a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar of Sufism.[3] He was also a professor of international constitutional law at the University […]
Prime Minister David Cameron: British Schools Must Root Out Muslim Extremists
Religion News Service | By Trevor Grundy Posted: 06/30/2015 1:54 pm EDT CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Headmasters and teachers at Britain’s privately owned and state-run schools have been ordered to be […]
Nominating Robert Fisk for Nobel Peace Prize for 2015
Epigraphs: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our […]
Tunisia hotel attack: Backdrop to this slaughter is a history of violence against Muslims
Source: The Independent By Robert Fisk, the Independent’s multiple award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut It didn’t create these Islamists – but it helped lay the foundation for their […]
Are We Living Islam’s Darkest Hour?
Source: The Huffington Post By Faisal J. Abbas; Editor-in-Chief, Al Arabiya English; author of upcoming book on Arab media How much terrorism can the world take in 24 hours? Friday June 26, 2015 will certainly go down in history as a day that pushed the limit. Just in case the daily […]
Indoctrinated by the Unregulated
Source: Foreign Policy By Dania Ahmed In Pakistan, madrassas have a knack for producing terrorists. The government is aware of this yet it does not have a consistent stance regarding madrassas. After the Peshawar school attack in December, the government made it a priority to regulate madrassas, but when the […]
Did Prophet Muhammad Warn Us of ISIS?
Source: Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights advocate In separate attacks last week, ISIS terrorists killed thirty-nine tourists at a beach resort in Tunisia, and […]
Afzal Khan MEP: Foreign Policy Double Standards Feed Radicalisation
Source: Press Release Afzal Khan MEP, has called for an new approach to tackling the spread of radicalisation across Europe and for a greater understanding of the grievances behind it. […]
White extremists have killed more in the US than Muslim fundamentalists since 9/11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxUK7o7_s0I Non-Muslim extremists have carried out 19 attacks since September 2001 killing 48 people Radical Muslims have killed 26 people in seven attacks, new report found The Charleston church […]