Al-Qaeda Archive
Why did US tag Deobandi cleric Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil a global terrorist? – by Amir Mir: ISLAMABAD: Tagged as “specially designated global terrorist” on September 30, 2014 by the US State Department, the Rawalpindi-based ameer of Deobandi Harkatul Mujahideen (HuM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil Deobandi is the same person whose services were hired by
The Gulf members of the anti-ISIS coalition: hypocrisy and secret agendas – Sabah Ayoub: This US Air Forces Central Command photo shows an F-22A Raptor refueling in the US Central Command area of responsibility prior to strike operations in Syria on September 26, 2014. These aircraft were part of a large coalition strike
Iran, the Thinkable Ally – Roger Cohen: LONDON — Breakfast last week in New York with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran was a cordial affair, bereft of the fireworks of his predecessor, whose antics made headlines and not much more. Rouhani, flanked by his twinkly-eyed foreign
Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamists leaving home to join Isis fighters: Zahra Halane, 16, poses with an AK-47, an Isis flag, knife and grenade. A series of tweets about her kitten, thrown out by her husband, betray her youth. Hundreds of young women and girls are leaving their homes
The Destruction of Mecca – Ziauddin Sardar: WHEN Malcolm X visited Mecca in 1964, he was enchanted. He found the city “as ancient as time itself,” and wrote that the partly constructed extension to the Sacred Mosque “will surpass the architectural beauty of India’s Taj
Meet the Syrian Islamist organization controlling Senator McCain’s agenda – Daniel Greenfield: A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a high profile article from one Elizabeth O’Bagy arguing that the majority of the Syrian rebels were actually moderates. Senator McCain mentioned Elizabeth O’Bagy’s op-ed during the Senate hearings, when
The Ancestors of ISIS – David Motadel: CAMBRIDGE, England — IN the last few years, there has been a dramatic rise of a seemingly new type of polity: the Islamic rebel state. Boko Haram in West Africa, the Shabab in East Africa, the Islamic Emirate
ISIS ‘ Harsh brand of Islam is rooted in Austere Saudi (Wahhabi) Creed: BAGHDAD — Caliph Ibrahim, the leader of the Islamic State, appeared to come out of nowhere when he matter-of-factly proclaimed himself the ruler of all Muslims in the middle of an otherwise typical Ramadan sermon. Muslim scholars from the
Picutres of 3 Deobandi terrorists who tried to kill Malala Yousafzai: Press Release No PR197/2014-ISPR Dated: September 12, 2014 Rawalpindi – September 12, 2014: Statement – DG ISPR 1. Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you very much for coming here. Today’s press conference is on a single point agenda. 2.
نائجیریا – تعلیمی اداروں میں پولیٹکل وہابی اسلام اور طالبات – از عامر حسینی: عورتیں کہیں بھی ہوں مرد بالادستی اور مرد شاؤنزم کا ان کو سامنا کرنا پڑتا ہے اور الجزائر کا سماج بھی اس سے مستثنی نہیں ہے ، مذھبی تعبیرات کی کوئی بھی شکل ہو اس میں پدر سری خیالات
شام میں پاکستانی دیوبندی بھی دہشت گردی میں شامل ہیں – امریکی محکمہ انصاف: امریکہ کے محکمۂ خارجہ کے ترجمان نے امریکی انٹیلی جنس اداروں کے حوالے سے بتایا ہے کہ شام میں دیگر ممالک کے لوگوں کی طرح پاکستانی دیوبندی بھی موجود ہیں لیکن اُنھیں یہ نہیں معلوم کہ وہ دولتِ اسلامیہ
Takfiri Wahhabi Deobandi ISIS launches offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq – Sarmad Hasan: Earlier this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a two-week offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq. ISIS is targeting Sunni tribes and residents that have refused to swear allegiance to ISIS. ISIS’ campaign started
Turkey: The goal congruence of political Islamists and ISIS: Turkey’s stance in the joint struggle against IS is indeed low-profile, but perhaps this is an understatement. If the recent discourse of its decision-makers is scrutinized closely, one may reach the conclusion that the ruling Islamist government of
Wahabi/Deobandi Islamic state ‘brand’ gains ground among Asian militants – Reuters: MANILA: A threat by Philippine militants to kill a German hostage in a show of solidarity with Islamic State is the latest sign that the Middle East group’s brand of radicalism is winning recruits in Asia and posing
The myth of religious violence – Karen Armstrong: As we watch the fighters of the Wahabi Deobandi Islamic State (Isis) rampaging through the Middle East, tearing apart the modern nation-states of Syria and Iraq created by departing European colonialists, it may be difficult to believe we
How U.S. interventionists abetted the rise of ISIS – Rand Paul: As the murderous, terrorist Islamic State continues to threaten Iraq, the region and potentially the United States, it is vitally important that we examine how this problem arose. Any actions we take today must be informed by what
ISIS draws a steady stream of recruits from Turkey – Ceylan Yeginsu: ANKARA, Turkey — Having spent most of his youth as a drug addict in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Turkey’s capital, Can did not think he had much to lose when he was smuggled into Syria with 10
The Islamic state is spreading into Pakistan – Kiran Nazish: in early September, about a dozen militants crossed the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan with pamphlets and flags, urging locals to join the Islamic State. They distributed hundreds of pamphlets in Afghan refugee camps and madrassas in Pakistan’s Peshawar
lawmaker assails foreign donations to think tanks – Eric Lipton: WASHINGTON — Prominent Washington think tanks that routinely provide Congress with policy advice should refrain from taking foreign government donations, particularly from nations like Qatar that have been associated with financing Salafi Wahhabi Deobandi extremist groups, a senior House
ISIS launches offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq – Sarmad Hasan: Earlier this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a two-week offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq. ISIS is targeting Sunni tribes and residents that have refused to swear allegiance to ISIS. ISIS’ campaign started on
Al Qaeda’s Re-launch in South Asia and the role of Deobandi militants – C. Christine Fair: Lost in the hubbub over the rise of the Islamic State and the Obama administration’s move to war in Iraq was the Al Qaeda core’s declaration of a new affiliate in South Asia—long a home to jihadist activity. C.
From Ukraine to ISIS, the design is the same – Dr Abbas Zaidi: President Bashar al-Assad defied all odds, and al-Malliki, despite his incompetence and the practically US-backed independent Kurdistan, kept Iraq in one piece. It was not easy to withstand the collective US-EU-UAE-Turkey-Saudi Arabia assault. We must not forget Australia
To crush ISIS, make a deal with Assad – Ahmad Samih Khalidi: LONDON — LAST week, President Obama virtually declared war on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But it is hard to reconcile the seemingly urgent need to confront the threat posed by this organization with the chosen
Top 5 contradictions in Obama’s emerging ISIL strategy – by Juan Cole: In the past week, Secretary of State John Kerry has marshaled support of some sort from both European nations and from countries in the Middle East for the US push against ISIL. Unfortunately, the resulting coalition is riddled with
Islamic State: ‘US failure to look into Saudi role in 9/11 has helped Isis’ – by Patrick Cockburn: The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of
Robert Fisk on Isis campaign: Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’: Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, its “barbarism”, “genocide”, its “warped ideology” – until
Islamic State group issues new curriculum in Iraq – by Sinan Salaheddin & Vivian Salama: The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been “permanently annulled.” The Islamic State
Dawn’s editorial on the renunciation of violence by Punjabi Taliban: In certain national security circles, the renunciation of violence inside Pakistan by the leader of the TTP Punjab aka the Punjabi Taliban, Asmatullah Muawiya, will be greeted with satisfaction, even glee. Luring the Punjabi Taliban back towards the
Club Med for Terrorists – by Ron Prosor: THE hostilities in Gaza between Israel and Hamas persist and the diplomatic war at the United Nations continues, also without resolution. While there is no shortage of opinions on the way forward, the most obvious solution is strikingly
کراچی ڈاکیارڈ پر حملے میں تحریک طالبان کا سندھی گروپ ملوث ہے – حساس اداروں کی رپورٹ: ڈان نیوز سمیت زرایع ابلاغ نے خبر دی ہے کہ تین ستمبر 2014ء کو کراچی ڈاکیارڈ پر ہونے والا حملے کے بارے میں حساس اداروں کی تحقیقاتی رپورٹ سامنے آگئی ہے جس میں حساس اداروں نے بتایا ہے کہ
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent – an imminent threat to India? – by Michael Duffy: The vulnerable Muslims of Burma, Bangladesh, Assam and Gujarat and Ahmadabad and Kashmir, have a new saviour, one that has been two years in the making, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s recent announcement of a new affiliate Al-Qaeda in
‘I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift, to an Isis commander. Here’s how I escaped’: This is the story told to me by a 14-year-old Yazidi girl I’ll call “Narin”, currently staying in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. I am a Kurdish journalist with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers
داعش کے قبحہ خانے اور فحاشی کے اڈے، مظلوم عراقی خواتین کی سسکیاں – از خرم زکی: غور سے دیکھ لیں ان برقعہ پوش خواتین کو، یہ داعش کی وحشیائیں ہیں (دوسرا مناسب لفظ استعمال نہیں کیا جا سکتا) اور یہ لعنتی خلیفہ ابو بکر البغدادی کے لیۓ عراق اور شام میں کوٹھے چلاتی ہیں
نیوی ڈاک یارڈ پر حملہ، بلوچستان سے تین مفرور نیوی اہلکار اور کراچی میں کالعدم دیوبندی جماعت کے دو افراد گرفتار- بی بی سی اردو: جمعرات 11 ستمبر 2014 پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کے دارالحکومت کوئٹہ کے قریب پاکستان نیوی کے تین ایسے اہلکاروں کو گرفتار کیا گیا ہے جن پر کراچی میں نیوی ڈاک یارڈ حملے میں ملوث ہونے کا الزام ہے
‘See you on Judgement Day’ – Pakistani female Deobandi jihadist last message to her parents: Childhood pictures of a private schoolgirl who fled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State have been released by her heartbroken parents as part of a renewed bid to bring her home. The pictures of Aqsa Mahmood show
Mother’s agony as she learns of Lebanese soldier son’s beheading by IS militants: The mother of the second Lebanese soldier to have been beheaded by IS militants learned of her son’s gruesome murder after seeing photographs of it on Twitter. Zeinab Noun’s 20-year-old son, Abbas Medlej, was among 19 Lebanese soldiers captured
Jonathan Shaw: We can only beat Islamic State with Muslim support: President Obama suffers for being what we all clamour for — an honest politician. Still smarting from admitting in The New Yorker that he hasn’t got a joystick with which to control the world, he is now being
By denouncing ISIS as ‘not Muslims’, moderate Muslims risk making things worse – by James Brandon: Editor’s note: We agree with this argument particulary because it attacks the denialist approach of most Muslim clerics and ordinary Muslims. However, one useful and much more effectual way to defeat Islamist terrorism is to clearly identify, expose
The Paradox in Saudi Arabia’s Denunciation of Its Own Offshoot, Islamic State: What an irony that Saudi Arabia’s clerics now condemn the violence of the IS, branding their own Wahabbi brethren as ‘Kharjis’. This has been a Muslim practice for the past many centuries to condemn any extremists one dislikes as
Missing Libyan Jetliners Raise Fears of Suicide Airliner Attacks on 9/11: Wahabi Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa. Intelligence reports of the