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

Is Zakir Naik responsible for the rising violence in the Islamic world?: Note: This is a guest article sent by IndiaFacts reader and supporter, Anand Mathur.  The Middle East is burning with the fire of hatred as Muslims in the region commit fratricide. Europe is itself grappling with the aftermath of

دنیا کا سب سے بڑا مذہبی اجتماع جس کے بارے میں آپ نے کبھی نہیں سنا ہوگا: یہ مسلمانوں کا اجتماع حج نہیں ہے نہ ہی کمبھ میلے کا ہندؤ اجتماع ہے بلکہ یہ اجتماع ” اربعین ” کے نام سے جانا جاتا ہے ، یہ دنیا کا تعداد کے لحاظ سے سب سے بڑا اجتماع

NATO’s Libya: From successful model to failed state: Libya’s chaos and violence may seem like a continuum of painful replays. However, as the situation festers, the risk of extremist elements gaining a more dangerous foothold and broader freedom of action increases. Indeed, since the beginning of this

ٹنڈو محمد خان: مندر کی مورتیوں، کتابوں کو آگ لگا دی گئی: پاکستان کے صوبہ سندھ کے شہر ٹنڈو محمد خان میں نامعلوم افراد نے ہندو مندر میں موجود مورتیوں اور مقدس کتابوں کو آگ لگا دی۔ اس علاقے میں یہ اپنی نوعیت کا پہلا واقعہ ہے جس کے خلاف قوم

شہنشاہ ٹویٹر بلاول زداری نوٹس لیں: سالانہ پانچ ہزار ہندو پاکستان چھوڑ رہے ہیں: پاکستان میں حکمران جماعت کے اقلیتی رکنِ پارلیمان نے کہا کہ صوبہ سندھ میں ہندو اور عیسائی بچیوں کو زبردستی مسلمان بنانے کے باعث ہرسال پانچ ہزار ہندو پاکستان چھوڑ کردوسرے ممالک کو جا رہے ہیں۔ سندھ سے قومی

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

Note to Andaleeb Rizvi: A false Sunni-Shia binary helps Deobandi and Wahhabi terrorists.: In her otherwise valuable article published in Raza Rumi’s Pak Tea House, Andaleeb Rizvi uses false Sunni-Shia and Saudi-Iran binaries and thus, inadvertently, dilutes the fact that not only Shias but also thousands of Sunni Sufis, Christians, Kurds and

New York Times : Allure of ISIS for Pakistanis Is on the Rise: LONDON — Across Pakistan, the black standard of the Islamic State has been popping up all over. From urban slums to Taliban strongholds, the militant group’s logo and name have appeared in graffiti, posters and pamphlets. Last month, a

Global Terrorism Index 2014: 4 Wahhabi Deobandi groups responsible for 66% of global terror killings in 2013: Editor’s note: Our readers should note two very key findings of the GTI vindicate the LUBP narrative and prove the fake liberal media and for hire think tankers and University Professors wrong. First, Four Wahhabi Deobandi groups with connections

Not Fit to Print: An Insider Account of Pakistani Censorship:   Imran [Khan], [Tahir ul] Qadri, and the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] are our best friends,” our weekly editorial meeting at Pakistan’s Express Tribune was (jokingly) told on Aug. 13, 2014, a day before the two political leaders began their

The Universal Islamist: This biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal: When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked India’s first cosmonaut, Rakesh Sharma, at a video conference in April 1984, how India looked from space, he replied without missing a beat: “Saare jahan se achcha.” Every schoolchild in India recognised the

Political Islam in neoliberal times:   Neoliberalism devours other competing world-views through the commodification of cultural difference—turning a tidy profit. Wrest this monopoly on political readings of Islam away from capital and authoritarianism. Over the past 35 years, political understandings of Islam have been dominated

Abu Khalid, Major (retd) Adil killed in drone strike: AQIS spokesman:   ISLAMABAD: Spokesman of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-continent (AQIS), Osama Mahmood on Thursday confirmed that his organization’s 2 key leaders Major (retd) Adil Abdul Quddus, Dr Sarbuland alias Abu Khalid and his two sons were killed in a

کیا صحیح نظریات کے لئے مغربی تھذیب سے سیکھنا ضروری ہے؟ – مبارک حیدر: میری راۓ میں صحیح نظریات صرف وہ ہیں جو ارتقا اور بقا کو بنیادی مقصد مانتے ہیں – اس سے سوال پیدا ہوگا کہ کس کا ارتقا اور کس کی بقا ؟ جس کا جواب یہ ہے کہ ساری

Dr Ali Shariati, Shia Genocide and Black Shi’ism – by Abdul Nishapuri:   Red Shi’ism vs Black Shi’ism is an essay written by renowned Iranian scholar Dr Ali Shariati in which he discusses his ideas on the perceived dual aspects of the Shia Islam throughout history. Red Shi’ism, which Dr Shariati

جھوٹ کی پہلی سیڑھی – عمار کاظمی: دنیا بھر کے ساءینسدان ڈاکٹر سرطان کی قطعی وجوہات بتانے سے قاصر ہیں۔ شاید سروے رپورٹس کی بنیاد پر تمباکو نوشی کو پھیپھڑوں اور پان، گُٹکا، چھالیہ یا تمباکو چبانے کو منہ کے سرطان کی وجہ بتایا جاتا ہے۔

فیض صاحب ! ہم آپ کو نہیں بهولے – عامر حسینی: کل فیض احمد فیض کی 30 ویں برسی تھی ،گویا فیض کو اس جہاں سے گزرے تیس برس ہوگئے اور تیس سال پہلے جب فیض صاحب کا انتقال ہوا تها تو اس وقت میری مسیں ہی بهیگی تهیں اور

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