An open letter to ISIS and other Salafi and Deobandi extremists, from the World’s Muslim community: This is an open letter addressed to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and all other violent Islamist extremist groups ( Salafi, Wahhabi, Deobandi, ISIS, Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba); their members, followers, and supporters… We, the other Muslims of the world, would like
Nigeria: Army attack on Shia unjustified: (Abuja) – The killing of hundreds of Shia Muslim members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), by Nigerian army soldiers from December 12 to 14, 2015, appears to have been wholly unjustified. The Judicial Commission of Inquiry set
سب باغی ایک جیسے نہیں ہوتے۔ سید عون عباس: تیونس میں ایک ماسٹرز کئے ہوئے لڑکے نے جب اپنے حقوق نہ ملنے پر خود کو آگ لگائی تو اس آگ نے صرف اس نوجوان ہی کو نہیں جلایا بلکہ پورے تیونس میں یہ آگ پھیل گئی، اور برسوں
On that which cannot be named – Olga Tkachuk: “There is no such thing as radical Islam,” reads a recent headline of a popular American publication. Individual Muslims might be radicals, writes the author, but “[t]here is only one Islam” and it has nothing to do with violence.
From these terrified men what can we expect? – Ayaz Amir: The country’s two leading politicians are now Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan (mercifully not anymore Asif Zardari, and even more mercifully not the likes of Khursheed Shah). Nawaz Sharif is terrified of the Taliban and not in a hundred
Perversion of Faith and Secularisation – by AZ: The war of religion has always been a part of human history. Hence, it is hardly surprising if even today the acts of terrorism are perpetrated by people motivated by an abuse of religion. It is a perversion of
The shared history of Saudi Arabia and ISIS: The participation of young Saudis in the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts is neither surprising nor an historical accident, writes Madawi Al-Rasheed. The Saudi regime has imprisoned its moderate Islamists and allowed its radicals to cause mayhem in the
Nigeria: 20 killed as suicide bomber hits Shia gathering: Editor’s Note : Today’s tragedy in Nigeria where Shia mourners were attacked – yet again – by Salafist terrorist groups – most probably Boko Haram is an apt reminder of the failure in specifically identifying terrorist groups. As long