Bangkok bomb: The messy theories behind the Thai attack
Source: BBC The scale of the deadly bomb blast in Bangkok on Monday means it is unlikely to be motivated by domestic politics, writes analyst Pavin Chachavalpongpun. Here are some […]
How to Speak With Young Muslims About ISIS
Huff Post: by Imam Sohaib Sultan — As a university Muslim chaplain, I mentor and counsel young Muslim men and women everyday — on my campus and beyond — who are navigating their way through the complex and messy world that we all live in. Most young Muslims I meet […]
The Religious Roots of Domestic Terror
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) Source: The Daily […]
Israel president threatened over ‘Jewish terrorism’ comment
Source: Yahoo News Jerusalem (AFP) – Police have opened an investigation into online threats against Israel’s president following his condemnation of “Jewish terrorism” after a firebombing killed a Palestinian child, […]
Attack that killed toddler prompts Israel to ok holding suspects without trial
Source: Religion News Service JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at […]
Sikhs Mark Anniversary of Temple Shooting with Community Service
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post “Regardless of what the situation is, we need to always spread love and peace and keep helping each other.” This […]
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 […]