Syria & Syrian Civil War Archive
The IS behemoth, yet another Western project gone wrong – Murtaza Haider: It is a typical summer flick, but it holds a great lesson for the global power politics. Hercules, released earlier in the summer, shows how the son of Zeus fights against tyrants only to realise later that he
Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah: Founder of excommunication and exclusion – Aamir Hussaini: Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah is a very controversial figure in Muslim history. On the one side there are those who believe that he adopted Imam Ahmad bin Hanbals’ rigid, violent and Zahiriya (emphasizing on outward appearance) in Tauheed (‘the oneness’)
Yemen massacre of Zaidi Shias by the Salafi Al-Qaeda: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict – Juan Cole: The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and wounding many more, were immediately claimed by Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Since the mosques were largely attended by members of the
The Battle For Saudi Arabia : Royalty Fundamentalism and global Power: پروفیسر اسد ابو خلیل امریکی یونیورسٹی میں پولیٹکل سائنس کے استاد ہیں اور وہ لبنانی نژاد عرب ہیں ، بیروت سے شایع ہونے والے عربی روزنامہ ” الاخبار” میں باقاعدگی سے آرٹیکل لکھتے ہیں اور کئی کتابوں کے
President Obama’s message to everyone celebrating Nowruz across the US and in countries around the world (2015): Hello! To everyone celebrating Nowruz—across the United States and in countries around the world—Nowruz Mubarak. For thousands of years, this has been a time to gather with family and friends and welcome a new spring and a new
Open letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz – by Ani Zonneveld: in this letter, Ani Zonneveld has correctly identified the major source of extremism, bigotry, intolerance and misogyny in the Muslim world. Instead of using vague and obfuscatory terminology like “Islamist”, she has correctly highlighted Saudi Wahabism as a major
Pakistan warns Turkey: Don’t make our mistakes: As Turkey was discussing the training and equipping of Syrian opposition militants in Turkey, Pakistan recalled its own painful experiences. In Islamabad, Al-Monitor asked Mushahid Hussein, the chairman of the Pakistani Senate’s Defense Committee, about his country’s role in Afghanistan and in
Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi turning tail in Iraq. Mullah Omar hiding out in Pakistan for over a decade. Seems like we are back in the 7th century AD.: Someone, please hand Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi some mascara and some nice lip stick. Blazing Yellow shade would be perfect and might smudge through the Burqa and other “Feminist” garbs that Caliph Abu Bakr might be wearing as
صدام حسین کی قبر اور لاش کے ساتھ داعش کا سلوک: صدام حسین نے ہمیشہ عراق کے شیعہ مسلمانوں اور لبرل سنی کرد مسلمانوں کے ساتھ حقیرانہ اور ظالمانہ سلوک کیا اور متعصب سنی اور سلفی عرب قبائل کو سنی کردوں اور شیعہ عربوں کے خلاف استعمال کیا – آج
Vatican endorses military force against Christian and other groups’ genocide by ISIS and other Salafi Deobandi terrorists: The Vatican’s line on ISIS has taken a new turn, as its ambassador in Geneva suggested that if a political settlement is impossible, military force should be used against the jihadists. He also said the form of intervention
Islamic State fighters in Iraq caught fleeing battlefield dressed as women: IRAQ: In an attempt to flee northern Iraq, Islamic State (IS) fighters have shaved their beards and dressed like women, Iraqi forces claimed. A series of pictures have emerged, showing men wearing dresses and make-up in a bid to leave
Jerusalem Post Report: Israel treating al-Qaida ISIS Salafi Deobandi terrorists wounded in Syrian war: Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prominent American newspaper reported that Nusra Front,
Haider al-Abadi, not Qasem Soleimani, is the real hero of Iraq’s war against ISIS – by Abdul Nishapuri: In the background of the Iraqi Armed forces’ recent success against ISIS in Tikrit, some naive Pakistani Shias are displaying pictures of Qasem Soleimani, Hassan Nasrallah, Khamenei while others are foolishly displaying flags and banners of Iran, Hezbollah etc.
‘Jihadi’ Jake Bilardi – from Australian suburban schoolboy to Islamic State suicide bomber: How did a bright student and aspiring journalist from suburban Melbourne become a hardened militant and suicide bomber for Islamic State in Iraq? LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: How does a bright teenager and student of politics from Australian suburbia
German official says Saudi Arabia top ‘terror exporter’ in Mideast: A senior German official has called for the reconsideration of Germany’s arms exports to Saudi Arabia, describing the monarchy as the leading exporter of terrorism in the Middle East. Vice President of the German Parliament (Bundestag) Claudia Roth put
Western and Wahhabi channels give sectarian colour to Iraqi Shia and Sunni united front against ISIS: Western TV channels eg BBC, CNN along with Salafi Wahhabi channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are parroting the ISIS-AlQaeda-ASWJ propaganda describing Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Popular Mobilisation Units as sectarian Shia militas. These idiots or thugs
ISIS: Christians Worse Than Murderers: Editor note: There are now increasing voices in the international media who are using specific terminologies like Wahabi, Salafi and Deobandi to identify the guiding ideologies of violent facist groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, Taliban, Al Nusra and ASWJ-LeJ
Award winning Jewish journalist exposes Israel’s policy of backing ISIS aka Syrian rebels: Not a soul could help but be outraged by the two recent atrocities that the Islamic State (IS) has unleashed upon the world. The first of these was the immolation of Jordanian fighter pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh on Feb. 3,
Islamic State of Salafis and Deobandis: Celebrating death not life – Tahir Kamran (The News): “IS celebrates death, not life” was a statement from a young Jordanian colleague who works on Middle Eastern politics. Despite being visibly distressed and shaken over the gruesome killing of the Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was burnt
الحاد کا چوغہ اور شیعہ و سنی صوفی کے خلاف تعصب کا کمبل – عامر حسینی: حسن نصراللہ حزب اللہ کے سربراہ نے امداد ھائی اسکول میں میلاد النبی کے حوالے سے منعقدہ ایک جلسے سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ تکفیریت کا مقابلہ کرنا اسلام کا دفاع ہے اور التیار المستقبل پارٹی سے
کیا حزب اللہ کی وجہ سے پاکستان میں شیعہ نسل کشی ہورہی ہے؟ لدھیانوی اور ایاز نظامی کے سوالات کا جواب – عامر حسینی: پاکستان میں پریس اور سوشل میڈیا میں جب “شیعہ نسل کشی” اور شیعہ امام بارگاہوں پر ہونے والے حملوں کے حوالے سے اکثر بحث ہوتی ہے تو کئی ایک لوگ جوخود کو غیر جانبدار اور سیکولر ، لبرل یا
Patrick Cockburn: Private donors from Gulf oil states helping to bankroll salaries of up to 100,000 Isis fighters: Islamic State is still receiving significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish official. The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the
کیا تکفیریت تصوف کی جگہ لے رہی ہے ؟ – عامر حسینی: محمد الماموری الامانٹیر ویب سائٹ کے مستقل کالم نگار ہیں ، انھوں نے اس ویب سائٹ پر ایک کالم ” صوفی ازم کیسے سلفی ازم کو بیلنس کرسکتا ہے ؟ تحریر کیا ہے اور اس کالم کے آغاز ہی
British grammar schoolboy turned teen Deobandi jihadist Shabazz Suleman waiting for ISIS’s orders to attack the West: A teenage former grammar schoolboy who went to Syria has warned that Deobandi and Salafi Wahhabi Isis has “many” extremists “just waiting for the order to do attacks on the West”. Shabazz Suleman Deobandi, a former pupil of Royal
مغرب کی منافقت کی نقاب کشائی بجا، دیوبندی وہابی دہشت گردی پر آپکی خاموشی کے کیا معنی؟ – عامر حسینی: تباہی و بربادی و خون ریزی میں تعقل ڈهونڈنے والے اور اس کے زمہ داروں کے جرم کی سنگینی پر پردہ ڈال رہے ہوتے ہیں اور اس عمل کی بربریت کی شدت کو کم کرکے اس کے خلاف ممکنہ
Charlie Hebdo attack and the Syria blowback – by Patrick Cockburn: There is a feeling of inevitability about the attack in Paris. The likelihood must be that the killers were Islamic Wahhabi Deobandi fanatics, the murder of the journalists and police underlining the degree to which the ferocious religious war
Blowback in Paris: how should we respond to the Charlie Hebdo terror attack? – by Nafeez Ahmed: The only way forward, says Nafeez Ahmed, is for people of all faith and none to stand together in rejecting violence perpetrated in our name, whether by state or insurgent. At least 12 people were killed in the shocking
The Perils of Embedded Journalism: How Jürgen Todenhöfer ends up glamourising ISIS: In his interviews with ISIS which he highlighted on ABC and CNN as well as his own Facebook note, German Journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer glamourises ISIS and misrepresents their “success”. His reporting is a example of poor journalism which lacks
Jordanian Fighter Pilot captured by ISIS: Malfunction or Malice?: Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : On Wednesday, ISIS claimed that it downed a Jordanian fighter jet near the city of al-Raqqah, displaying photos of the captured pilot. The Jordanian Air Force confirmed the capture of the pilot and his identity,
ISIS ‘launches new chlorine gas attack’ in Iraq’s Anbar – report: Islamic State militants have reportedly shelled a city in the western Iraqi province of Anbar with chlorine gas-imbued missiles, media reports citing security sources say. The attack is said to have targeted a district with trapped and starving civilians.
Iran-US is the only coalition that makes sense to defeat ISIS – by Ali Abbas Taj: There is immense pressure on both sides, Iran and the USA, to continue on a path of diplomatic confrontation. For the United States, there is a concerted effort by the sectarian Salafist Saudi/Qatari/Turkish lobby to scuttle any
The Saudi King who fought the wrong wars: There is one man for whom Hosni Mubarak’s acquittal will come as welcome relief: his friend and fellow potentate King Abdullah. Such was the Saudi King’s anxiety about Mubarak that he has nudged the Egyptian military to be
War against Isis: British Deobandi Jihadist Abu Rumaysah taunts police and heralds new ‘generation’ of terrorist as he parades ‘newborn son’ in Syria: Abu Rumaysah appears as a talking head throughout a 20-minute programme for Aljazeera – at one point being identified simply as ‘a British Muslim’ A British jihadist who skipped bail to join Isis in Syria has taunted police
ISIS developing “colonies” as Deobandi and Wahhabi fanatics join in droves: Editor’s note: We are cross-posting views by various intelligence analysts on a surge in acceptance of the ISIS Caliphate in several Muslim countries. This is dangerous trend is most apparent in Libya where Wahhabi and Deobandi Jahadis were used
ISIS women – Takfiri Wahhabi and Deobandi ideology is radicalizing Muslim women in the West: Time: Last March 11, was a normal Thursday morning for the Ali Mehenni family, or so Kamel Ali Mehenni thought when he dropped off his 17-year-old daughter Sahra at the train station on her way to school. It was
Europe and ISIS, an islamic state within the old continent: CAIRO — “One day, not long from now, Europe will wake up to a nightmare.” I made this comment to friends during a 2012 visit to Europe. They swiftly dismissed it. Yet just two years later, with supporters of
ISIS is a bigger threat for Muslims than Israel: Hezbollah leader: Mohammed Fneish, a government minister in Lebanon and a leader of Hezbollah, has said that Hezbollah is combating extremist takfiri jihadi organisations such as Islamic State (IS), because they “kill more Muslims than Israel”. In a recent interview with
Erdogan’s ‘New Turkey’ drifts towards isolation: There is an old saying in Turkish: “The Turk has no friend but the Turk.” As this country drifts towards isolation under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the proverb is ringing uncomfortably true. During his 11 years
What is sectarianism in the Middle East? – Salameh Kaileh and Victorios Shams: Salameh Kaileh: The sect is a community that subscribes to certain religious beliefs from the past. These beliefs, at the time of their formation, were the expression of the ideological and class conceptualisation of a certain social group. This conceptualisation
Arab Opinion Survey: Palestine has the highest percentage of ISIS sympathizers: Findings from a survey by the Arab Opinion Index team, within the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, and which were presented at near-simultaneous press conferences in Doha and Washington, DC, have demonstrated the depth of the