The majority of people promoting “jihad” online are using political rather than religious arguments, according to a study by two UAE-based think-tanks. The report, by the Abu Dhabi-based Future Centre and the al-Mesbar Centre in Dubai, was released as a video called “How a Terrorist Thinks”. The study analysed 45,000 Arabic-language Twitter posts by individuals…
Forum18 reports that in latest cases in Russia against Sunni Muslims who read the works of the late Turkish theologian Said Nursi, eight individuals are known to be facing charges in separate criminal investigations in four different cities. Three of these four cases involve suspects who have previously been convicted of similar “extremism” offences within…
An international seminar on the life and ways of Prophet Mohammed condemned terrorism and declared that Islam has no room for any terrorist activities. “Islam is the religion of peace, fraternity, tolerance, mutual respect and patriotism,” said eminent scholars from across the country at the three-day international seminar that was inaugurated on Sunday at Al…
Pakistani Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi and other speakers at an event held at the United Nations voiced serious concern over the increasing hate crimes against Muslims in the West, saying that the most effective action to reverse this dangerous trend lay in promoting interfaith cooperation. They also stressed the need for unity among Muslims, as they…
World Report 2016 is Human Rights Watch’s 26th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from the end of 2014 through November 2015. In the introductory essay, “Twin Threats: How the Politics of Fear and…
The 2016 “Annual Dialogue Report”, prepared by Media Tenor and just released, examines ways to build trust and increase dialogue across religious faiths. The report has been published annually since 2008 and aims to “provide objective data on the perception of religion and the media coverage of religious issues, in a study that compares attitudes and frames…
After Kenyan authorities reported that Al-Shabaab terrorists attacked a bus near the northeastern village of El Wak, attempting to separate Muslims from the Christian passenger, a number of Muslims reportedly stood up against the radical gunmen and told them “to kill them together or leave them alone,”. The Bishop of Garissa in Kenya has said…
The Muslim Council of Britain took out an advert in the national press to underscore the united condemnation Muslims have of terrorism, especially after the Paris attacks last Friday. Dr Shuja Shafi, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain said “The advert aims to highlight how Muslims everywhere have consistently and without reservation spoken…
The Sakhalin Regional Court has granted an appeal by Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov, revoking a lower court’s ruling that labelled a book containing quotes and commentary on verses from the Quran as extremist. A judge of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk declared the book “Plea (Dua) to God: Its Role and Place in Islam” to be…
Dutch politician Geert Wilders has appeared in Australia to help launch an anti-Islam political party based on Wilders’s right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands. Protesters threatened to drown out the Dutch politician’s speech at an event in Perth for a new Australian political party, the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA). Wilders’ headline message was: “Let us…
