Posts Tagged: islam
Mideast Powers Vie to Shape the Next Generation of Muslims
JNS.org - Reports published earlier this year by the Israel-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE) chart a notable divergence...
Umrah Pilgrims Return to a Mecca Stilled by COVID-19 Slump
Mecca slowly stirred from a seven-month hibernation on Sunday as pilgrims trickled in after Saudi authorities partially lifted a coronavirus ban on performing umrah -...
Indonesia and the Battle for the Soul of Islam
In Indonesia, Java’s mosque landscape resembles a map dotted with flags marking outposts of warring parties. Mosques with three-tiered tiled roofs reflect traditional Javanese cultural...
New York Times Article: ‘Nearly 30% of All Murder Cases in Iran Were Honor Killings’
The New York Times has a good article about the horrible “honor killing” of a 14-year old girl by her father, because she had a...
Dutch Anti-Islam Lawmaker Ends Mohammad Cartoon Contest Within Hours
Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Sunday he had ended a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, only hours after announcing the contentious...
The War Against Christians
JNS.org - Grinch that I am, in the days leading up to Christmas I immersed myself in The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian...
We Need a Comprehensive Strategy for Dealing With Radical Islamists
Many people think 9/11 was the beginning of the war that Islamists (Muslim radicals and supremacists) declared on America in particular and Western civilization in...
Political Islam Is Declining in the Middle East
Few live images were more dramatic than the collapse and death of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, the first-ever Muslim Brotherhood head of state, in...
Official German Report Acknowledges Islamist Antisemitism in the Country
In a major break with the past, the German agency for domestic security -- Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz -- has published a 40-page report whose title...
Jihadism, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the ‘Frontier-States’
Many analysts, in their eagerness to trace the origins of the radicalization of Islam, look to the rise of the theocratic Shiite regime in Iran...
More Than Two Million Muslims Begin Annual Hajj to Mecca
JNS.org - The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia began on Sunday, with more than two million Muslims from around the world expected to...
Exploring Shariah Law and Radical Islam
One of academia’s most renowned experts on Islam, John Esposito, wants everyone to know that there is nothing to fear from Shariah law and that...
How Modernity Empowered Islamism
Islamism is one of the most astonishing phenomena of the last 50 years. Whereas in the Western world and Asia, religion has retreated from the...
In Speech to Jewish Group, Leader of World’s Largest Muslim Organization Calls for Compassion
The leader of the world’s largest Muslim organization told a leading Jewish group on Sunday that religious people must seek to solve today’s violent conflicts...
