Conference On Terrorism and Extremism in Africa Kicks Off in Khartoum
An International Conference on Terrorism and Sectarian Fundamentalism, organized by the Sudanese Ministry of Guidance and Endowment in collaboration with the Muslim World League, started in Khartoum on Wednesday. The two-day conference which will discuss how to counter terrorism and extremism in Africa was addressed by President Omer Bashir, who stressed that the enemies of […]
Saudi General: We Are Aggressively Confronting Regional and Global Terrorism
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Adviser to the Saudi Defense Minister and Official Spokesman for the Arab Joint Coalition Forces Brigadier General Ahmed Hassan Asseri discussed the significance of a Muslim military alliance to fight terrorism in an op-ed published today by Newsweek, titled “Leading From The Front.” “For the first time in history, […]
Saudi King Urges Stronger Islamic Unity to Defeat Terrorism
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz today urged solidarity and unity among Muslims to fight terrorism and bring about peace and security in the region. King Salman made these remarks during a speech at the 13 th Islamic Summit Conference of the Organization of Islamic […]
Juan Cole: How not to talk about Muslims after a Fringe Terrorist Group attacks
1. Stop calling Daesh “the Islamic State.” They are manipulating you. They aren’t a state and they aren’t Islamic. If some fringe cult took over some villages in Mexico and called itself “The Vatican,” then committed terrorism, would journalists blithely say on air “Today, the Vatican killed 39 and injured 200 with a bomb belt”? […]
CAIR Expresses Solidarity with People of Belgium Following Attacks
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed solidarity with the people of Belgium following attacks in that nation’s capital that left more than 30 people dead and many more injured. In a statement, CAIR said: “We express our solidarity […]
The Islamic State was created by the United States and the West
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 15, 2015 – In the Middle East almost everything is slightly off center. Weekends are on Thursdays and Fridays, calendars are lunar rather than solar, reading is done from right to left instead of the other way around and there are dozens of other examples where nothing is quite the way it […]
Muslim scholar at N.J. talk: ISIS ‘hijacked the religion’ of Islam
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Suzy Ismail stood before a crowd Sunday, tasked with explaining her faith in a time of great anxiety about it. Ismail, a Muslim scholar, traverses the East Coast to educate people about Islam as worry about both radical Islamic terrorism and Islamophobia continues to send the country reeling. One of the first […]
Pakistan’s commendable role against eliminating terrorism lauded
Shaarik H. Zafar Special Representative to Muslim Communities U.S. State Department has said that across the world, Muslims are facing sever challenges and passing through turmoil of the time, to get rid of menace of terrorism and extremism, it is utmost need to value education and to empower youth which is precious asset of Muslim […]
American Muslims: There have been Muslims involved in terrorism
There have been Muslims involved in terrorism … but they’ve also spoken out against it. From September 11, 2001, until the end of 2014, 109 Muslim-Americans plotted against targets in the United States. And terrorism by Muslim-Americans killed 50 in the same time period. Contrast that with the deaths from other mass shootings just last […]
Justice Department acknowledges threat from domestic terrorists, creates new office
Following a surge of criticism that it has ignored the growing threat of domestic terrorism, the Justice Department said this week that it has created a new office to focus on homegrown extremists. Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin announced the move at a terrorism seminar this week at George Washington University. He said the […]