Reuters | Sep 11, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates has arrested eight Emirati Islamists, including a state prosecutor and a former judge, rights activists said on Tuesday, widening a crackdown on dissidents over alleged threats to state security. Thanks to cradle-to-grave welfare systems, the UAE […]
Sixteen Muslim preachers from a moderate sect were shot dead in central Mali as they traveled by road to a religious conference, the Malian and Mauritanian governments said Sunday. Early reports indicate that the men’s long beards aroused the suspicion of Mali’s military, which confused them for the extremists who […]
TRIPOLI — Attackers bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi Muslim tombs in the centre of Tripoli in broad daylight on Saturday, in what appeared to be Libya’s most blatant sectarian attack […]
ALEPPO – A fighter returns to a Free Syrian Army safe house after a shift on the Aleppo frontline, cranks up the volume of the television, lights a cigarette and looks at himself in a broken mirror. “Anyone got hair gel? I look a mess.” Meet Abu Zeid Al Tunsi, […]
The civil conflict in Syria has brought Islamists from all over the world to the Arab country to help their brothers topple the “apostate regime”. But will the foreign allies […]
Jordan Times RAFAH — Egypt began to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian militants. As officials considered how to respond to the deadliest assault along […]
The Muslim Brotherhood said on its website that Sunday’s attack in Sinai on an Egyptian army outpost was an Israeli attempt to thwart President Morsi; Israel’s Foreign Ministry denies the claims. By Jack Khoury and Reuters HAARETZ ISRAEL Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on its website on Monday that the attack […]
by Suleiman Al Khalidi | Reuters JORDAN TIMES REYHANLI, Turkey — Abdullah Ben Shamar, a Saudi student, puts a small copy of the Koran among his few belongings packed neatly in a holdall as he prepares to set off with a Libyan friend across the hilly terrain separating southern Turkey […]
SOME eminent Islamic scholars at the weekend, called on the Boko Haram sect to permanently end its violence in the interest of peace and unity. The clerics, who spoke at this year’s Ramadan lecture of the National Council of Muslim Youths Organisation (NACOMYO) in Lagos, reiterated that so far, the […]
Extremist imams and jihadists infiltrate peaceful Muslim lands, uprooting religious customs that have existed for centuries. By MELIK KAYLAN WALL STREET JOURNAL The recent spate of attacks on Muslim historic and religious sites in the ancient city of Timbuktu calls to mind the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Swiss intelligence services have observed an increase in the number of trips made out of Europe for jihadist purposes, with the internet playing a central role […]
By: Sultan Al-Qassemi First published on Gulfnews.com on 20th of May 2012 The post-Arab Spring political scene has exposed the frailty of the ‘marriage of convenience’ between free-thinkers and conservatives. […]
REUTERS ARABBEWS CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood and a military man close to ousted leader Hosni Mubarak courted defeated first-round candidates in Egypt’s presidential election yesterday, each trying to claim the […]
Let it be understood that, by and large, Islam is the only unifying factor in countries of the Muslim World. The Muslim heart, no matter how much of a hypocrite, […]
Reuters | May 17,2012 | 22:41 JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT — Kuwait’s ruler has blocked a proposal by 31 of the 50 elected members of parliament to amend the constitution to make all legislation in the Gulf Arab state comply with Islamic law, an MP said on Thursday. The approval of […]
A leading candidate running for president in Egypt has demanded the revision of the 1979 peace accord with Israel, calling the treaty a threat to Egypt’s national security. “I still […]
By TAMIM ELYAN | REUTERS ARABNEWS ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: At Al-Taqwa mosque in Egypt’s second biggest city, a preacher defends his ultra-orthodox Salafi group’s decision to endorse Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, an Islamist who casts himself as a moderate, in this month’s presidential election. “Don’t consider his media statements only. He […]
by Taylor Luck | May 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Hundreds of activists hit the streets in some urban centres in the country demanding an end to the Kingdom’s […]
Reuters | May 03,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TRIPOLI — Libya has dropped a ban against parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, an official said, after the law irked Islamist […]
These views were expressed in a ‘National Public Radio’ Talk Show on 12th April 2012: See here for full article. A woman calling from Pennsylvania offering a far different perspective: I’m a Syrian-American. I grew up in the United States. My parents decided to leave Syria when Hafez al-Assad was […]