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Is ISIS another master stroke by the western intelligence services? – by Ali Hashim: In the last 15 years a variety of Islamist Jihadi movements have erupted across the world in response to inequities, e.g. those in Israel, Chechnya, Palestine, Kashmir and against local despots such as those in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Saudi
Lebanese Sunni cleric Sheikh Maher Hammoud exposes Salafi hypocrisy: Arabs will fight Israel if it’s a Shia entity: Sunni Imam of Al-Quds Mosque in Sidon (Lebanon), Sheikh Maher Hammoud, has claimed that “if you want Arabs to fight Israel, tell them Israel converted to Shi’ism”. Hammoud said: “اذا اردتم للعرب ان يقاتلوا اسرئيل قولوا لهم ان إسرائيل
Islamic State rounds up ex-Baathists to eliminate potential rivals in Iraq’s Mosul – by Maggie Fick and Ahmed Rasheed: (Reuters) – One night last week, Islamic State militants in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi army officer, one of the men they see as an obstacle to
Israel, ISIS and Iran – by Ali Khan Mahmudabad: In 1871 in the small north Indian town of Bareilly Richard Bourke, the Governor General and 6th Earl of Mayo, made a speech in the presence of the Nawab of Rampur and other notables. This came in the
Fox News: ISIS destroys Sunni shrines and Shia mosques, may be targeting Mecca: ISIS is leaving a path of destroyed churches, shrines and mosques in its wake as it storms across Syria and Iraq, and has even set its sights on Mecca — Islam’s holiest site. The nihilistic jihadis, led
Former US ambassador to Iraq says: It’s not Washington’s job to tell Iraq who its leaders should be: James F. Jeffrey has served as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Turkey and Albania. He is the Philip Solondz visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. As the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012,
Washington Post’s Editorial: The U.S. must take a stronger stand on Bahrain after it expels a senior official: ARAB STATES dependent on the United States for military and economic support once went out of their way to avoid public conflict with Washington. More than five years into the Obama administration, there has been a reversal: Now
The Communist Party of Israel strongly condemns Israeli aggression in Gaza and Hamas’s attack on Israeli civilians: The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) expresses its strong resentment and condemnation to the vicious and murderous terrorist war that the government of Israel has been waging on the people of Gaza and on the Arab-Palestinian People at
Chakwal’s lone Hindu family leads peaceful but secluded life – by Nabeel Anwar Dhakku: Ravindar Kumar with his mother Sudesh Kumari and daughter Manisha Chhiber. CHAKWAL: “When I first went to a local college two years ago, students and teachers gave me a strange look,” recalls 18-year-old Manisha Chhiber, a Hindu girl
Sunni And Shiite British Imams Denounce Wahabi/Deobandi ISIS Together In New Video – by Yasmine Hafiz: Sunni and Shiite Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom have come together to denounce the Islamic militant group ISIS in a video posted by a group called Imams Online, reports the BBC. A statement on the Imams Online website
Radical Salafis/Deobandis face jail for attack on group of Shi’ites ‘in first case of Muslim sectarian violence in Britain’ – by Lucy Crossley: Radical Salafi/Deobandi Muslims are facing jail for attacking a group of Shi’ites in what is believed to be the first case of Muslim sectarian violence on the streets of Britain. Violence broke out on London’s Edgware Road, a
Pashtun tribes reject Deobandi militants’ call for Jihad – by Mian Saifur Rehman (The News): Despite the fact that militants launched effective and misleading propaganda against forces through Fatwas urging the tribesmen to wage Jihad against the country’s security forces in retaliation for the Operation Zarbe Azb, vast majority of tribal people have
Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country – by Patrick Cockburn: How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful
Stephen Hawking’s boycott hits Israel where it hurts: Science: Stephen Hawking‘s decision to boycott the Israeli president’s conference has gone viral. Over 100,000 Facebook shares of the Guardian report at last count. Whatever the subsequent fuss, Hawking’s letter is unequivocal. His refusal was made because of requests
Twitter uproar over pic of ‘applauding’ Israelis watching night attacks on Gaza: An image of Israelis in Sderot who gathered on a hill to watch and celebrate Gaza being bombed has gone viral on Twitter. The photo posted by a Danish journalist caused uproar online. Allan Sørensen, the Middle Eastern
Abbottabad: Shia scholar Waseem Shirazi and his father killed by Deobandi terrorists: I love no one other than Ali [a] I love everyone for the sake of Ali [a] This was the last post of Martyr Allama Waseem Sherazi on his Facebook account. Martyr Waseem Sherazi and his father, Mustafa
فلسطین کے انقلابیو! کہاں ہو تم – از عامر حسینی: ہندوستان میں جب اندراگاندهی نے ایمرجینسی نافذ کی اور کمیونسٹ پارٹی آف انڈیا نے اس ایمرجنسی کی حمائت کرڈالی تو کیفی اعظمی سخت بیمار تهے اور بستر مرگ پر تهے ،انهیں جب اس اقدام کا پتہ چلا تو بہت
Dawn’s report: Startling facts about Deobandi suicide bombers’ training den in North Waziristan – by Ismail Khan: A copy of the form containing details of a trainee suicide bomber found at the centre. MIRAMSHAH: It was one of the many non-descript buildings around, located at the dead-end of a small street inside Serai Darpakhel.
دیوبندی تکفیری خود کش بمباروں کی تربیت گاہ کے بارے میں چونکا دینے والے حقائق: میران شاہ: یہ سرائی درپہ خیل کے اندر ایک چھوٹی گلی کے آخری سرے پر موجود عمارتوں میں سے ایک تھی۔گلی کے باہر موجود ایک گارڈ نے ہمیں بتایا کہ ‘پہلے ہم سیدھا جائیں پھر بائیں جانب ایک دروازہ
Witnesses describe how Salafi & Deobandi fascist leveled Sunni village as a warning – by Mohammed al Dulaimy and Hannah Allam: BAGHDAD — To the villagers who fled, Zowiya is now a graveyard for all they’ve ever known. Their houses have been razed, their neighbors are dead, and their tribal codes have been violated in ways they never
فلسطینیوں کے غم میں رونے والے الباکستانیوں کی منافقت – ازعبدالقادر: یہ بات حقیقت ہے کہ اسرائیل فلسطینیوں کے ساتھ ظلم کر رہا ہے لیکن قطع نظر اس کے کیا آپ نے میڈیا پر کبھی اس قسم کی رپورٹنگ اس وقت بھی دیکھی جب دیوبندی دہشتگردوں نے کوئٹہ میں خودکش
The Human Side of Israel Palestine Conflict : No to hate speech and Fascism or Takfir – by Syed Farrukh Abbas: Banner: The occupation kills us All – Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza. Posting Hitler’s made up quote to try and prove that “Jews Are Bad People” and praising him for killing millions,
BBC and CNN’s Sectarian Agenda – by Faheem Raza: I have been monitoring BBC, CNN and other leading newspapers of west surprised for me that they reported that Gaza and Arab conflicts with neocons agenda. They termed Syria war Shia –Sunni conflict but never tell the truth
ISIS Salafi and Deobandi militants take sledgehammers to tomb of Prophet Jonah in Mosul, Iraq: Editor’s note: The Western press should answer the question: Is Prophet Jonah Sunni or Shia or Christian? The Western press keeps making an inaccurate false Shia Sunni Binary thereby obfuscating the Saudi Inspired Salafi and Deobandi identity of
Who are the Salafi and Deobandi women fighting in Syria – by Abigail R. Esman: For years she was a mother of 10 young children, keeping a good, Muslim home. Now she’s a rebel commander with a gun, fighting, she says, for her honor and her religion. Her children battle at her side. Speaking
In Pakistan, it’s our own radicalism that produces religious hatred and violence – by Ayesha Siddiqa: A few days ago, Pakistani newspapers published results of a PEW opinion poll for 2013 and 2014 indicating a large percentage of Pakistanis being perturbed with violent extremism in the country. According to the report of this
Two British Deobandi Jihadist admit to linking up with extremist group ISIS in Syria – by Vikram Dodd: Mohammed Ahmed, left, and Yusuf Sarwar were arrested on their return to Britain in January. Photograph: West Midlands police/PA Two Birmingham men admitted on Tuesday to linking up with an extremist group fighting jihad in Syria, after
Islamic State rounds up ex-Baathists to eliminate potential rivals in Iraq’s Mosul: A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according
ISIS Links with Pakistan: Past and Present – by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi: The entire world has been gripped by news of ISIS – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham; now just Islamic State) – declaring on 29th June 2014
Can Nouri Al Maliki save Baghdad from ISIS? – by Patrick Cockburn: In early June, Abbas Saddam, a private soldier from a Shia district in Baghdad serving in the 11th Division of the Iraqi army, was transferred from Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province in western Iraq, to Mosul
کامران خان دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کے ہاتھوں شیعہ ڈاکٹرز کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کی پردہ پوشی کیوں کر رہے ہیں ؟ – از عامر حسینی: کامران خان دی نیوز انوسٹی گیشن ڈیسک سے جیو کے ڈائریکٹر نیوز افئیر کے عهدے تک جو سفر کرچکے ہیں اس میں ان کی رپورٹوں کے کهرے کبهی تو راولپنڈی کے جی ایچ کیو تک جاتے رہے تو کبهی
داعش کے جنگجووں نے حضرت یونس علیہ السلام کا مزار تباہ کر دیا: بغداد (نیوز ڈیسک) عراق میں شدت پسند گروپ الدولۃ اسلامی فی العراق والشام (داعش) کے جنگجو ہتھیاروں اور بھاری ہتھوڑوں سے مسلح ہوکر موصل میں واقع حضرت یونس علیہ السلام کے مزار مقدس پر ٹوٹ پڑے اور قبر مبارک،
Pro-army wall chalking by sectarian outfits in Bannu – by Taha Siddiqui: Editor’s note: Awaami Baghi Group is an alias used used by banned deobandi militant outfit jaish-e-muhammad another name for the same group is al rehmat trust. At a time when the Pakistan Army claims to be waging a “decisive” and
Homegrown Islamist terrorism: How should we understand the teenage jihadists’ mind?: ‘Invading armies, bloodthirsty occupations and drone bombings have been extremism’s most potent recruiting sergeants.’ Illustration by Satoshi Kambayashi A friend of mine once gazed at her wayward teenagers and told me she could handle the usual drugs and
Bengal madrasah with more Hindu students draws eyes, President’s award for teacher: اورگرام چتسپلّي کے اس مدرسے کو صدر جمہوریہ کی جانب سے انعام سے بھی نوازا جا چکا ہے بھارت کی مغربی بنگال ریاست کے بردھمان ضلعے کے ایک مدرسے میں ایک مولوی طالب علموں کو قرآن اور اسلام کے
The late King of Saudi Arabia, his ‘secret’ Christian wife and the missing £12 million: Janan Harb threatens to ‘spill the beans’ if ‘promised’ money isn’t paid: The “secret” Christian wife of the late King of Saudi Arabia has won the right to pursue his son for a vast sum of cash and properties that she says he promised her before he died. Janan Harb,
Crime spree helps Pakistani Taliban squirrel away cash before raids begin: A Pakistani soldier stands in front of closed shops during a military operation against Taliban militants in the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan July 9, 2014. — Photo by Reuters PESHAWAR: In the months before Pakistan jets
Iran Pursues Subtle Strategy on Iraq Without Pushing Sectarian Conflict – by Bill Spindle: An Iraqi Shiite prays at the Imam Hussein Shrine in the holy Shiite city of Karbala, the fate of which is of great concern to Iran’s government. Getty Images QOM, Iran—Iran is pursuing a delicate strategy of supporting
ISIS Threatens Holocaust Against Jews – by John Rossomando: A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against the Jews. “The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the Hadiths!
U.S. Official Ordered Out of Bahrain After Meeting – by Michael R. Gordon and Kareem Faheem: WASHINGTON — Bahrain on Monday ordered the senior United States official on human rights to cut short his visit and leave the country after he met with the nation’s main Shiite opposition group. Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry said that