The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the EU’s anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe. US-led forces have launched nearly 200 air […]
The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the EU’s anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe. US-led forces have launched nearly 200 air […]
David Cameron has said the UK is ready to “play its part” in fighting Islamic State, which he called an “evil against which the whole world must unite”. Speaking at the UN in New York, the prime minister said “past mistakes” must not be an “excuse” for inaction. He spoke […]
David Cameron has said the UK is ready to “play its part” in fighting Islamic State, which he called an “evil against which the whole world must unite”. Speaking at the UN in New York, the prime minister said “past mistakes” must not be an “excuse” for inaction. He spoke […]
President Barack Obama has touted the involvement of Arab nations – many of them Sunni-majority – in US air strikes against Islamic State militants. But will this coalition hold up to the scrutiny of their own internal politics? What a difference a year makes. President Barack Obama limped to New […]
President Barack Obama has touted the involvement of Arab nations – many of them Sunni-majority – in US air strikes against Islamic State militants. But will this coalition hold up to the scrutiny of their own internal politics? What a difference a year makes. President Barack Obama limped to New […]
BBC News: Thirty countries have pledged to help Iraq fight Islamic State (IS) militants “by all means necessary”. A joint statement by foreign ministers taking part in a major conference in Paris talks said support would include “appropriate military assistance”. The talks had been called to agree a strategy to […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Egypt amid US attempts to form a broad coalition to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants. Mr Kerry will meet Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo on the latest leg of his Middle East tour. He has enlisted the support of […]
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling on “civilized Islam” to help take on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terror group. President Barack Obama laid out his plan to deal with ISIS during an address to the nation Wednesday night, saying that the U.S. will expand […]
There’s concern within some of Australia’s Muslim communities about the impact of a possible elevation in Australia’s terrorism threat rating. READ MORE…
US President Barack Obama has said he will not hesitate to take action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria as well as Iraq. In a nationally televised speech outlining his strategy against IS, he said that any group that threatened America would “find no safe haven”. He also announced […]
Kenya’s Western-funded anti-terrorism unit has carried out a series of killings and “enforced disappearances” during its fight against militant Islamists, a rights group says. READ MORE…
Here we go again. Another so-called Islamic terrorist group, ISIS, is committing horrific atrocities. And Muslims are again called upon to denounce them. How can anyone believe that small groups […]
Is America behind the creation of the Islamic State? The BBC’s Suzanne Kianpour, in Beirut, looks at the latest conspiracy theory doing the rounds in Lebanon. “In the Middle East, conspiracy theories are in our blood,” one former Lebanese official said over lunch in a restaurant in central Beirut. He […]
theguardian: by Joseph Wakim — Many Muslim Australians watched with horror as their American counterparts were humiliated at Barack Obama’s annual Iftar dinner at the White House on 14 July, when he appeared with Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer. With Dermer’s tweeted support, Obama said during the dinner that “Israel has the right to defend itself […]
The former Chief of the Australian Army, professor Peter Leahy, has warned that Australia needs to prepare itself for a century-long war, both overseas and at home, against radical Islamic militants. Currently the director of the National Security Institute at the University of Canberra, professor Leahy told Daily Mail Australia […]
The Muslim community in Australia should not feel targeted by the Federal Government’s proposed expansion of anti-terrorism laws, a Muslim academic says. The Government is proposing a broadening of the counter-terrorism regime that would include making it an offence to visit certain areas dominated by terrorists, without justification. READ MORE…
Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not coming from India, a country whose participatory politics and preoccupation with nearby […]
When widespread criticism arose from President Barack Obama’s gratuitous lecturing of Muslims at a White House iftar, about Israel’s right to defend itself as unarmed civilians in Gaza died by the hundreds, it signalled a generational shift in Muslim American leadership. This year’s White House iftar could have proceeded uneventfully like the many others […]
Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang are distressed because they are banned from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Xinjiang is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur community, one of China’s 56 recognized minority ethnic groups. Three Muslim students told the BBC they were forced to have meals […]