The CII: overstepping its advisory role

Source: ET It is time our parliamentarians started making laws that reflect the country’s realities instead of being browbeaten by the pronouncements of a body that is only supposed to have an advisory role. PHOTO: AFP The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is a constitutional body that advises the legislature […]

What it takes to fight terrorism

Jan 17,2016 -JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah drew a distinction between Daesh and khawarej (outlaws of Islam), making clear that the former, called by most of the West ISIS in Syria and Iraq, “can be defeated fairly quickly”, but the latter, “what I call the third world war by […]

Daesh, Islam Nusantara and shades of grey

Asiapacific.anu.edu.au:  It’s an old enemy of Wahhabism. But is Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and its project of tolerant, peaceful Islam an antidote to the extremism of Islamic State?  A statement late last year by Islamic State’s spokesman and senior leader, Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al Adnani, drew attention mainly because of his […]