Sri Lankan Bomb Attacks On Hotels, Churches: 20 Minutes Of Carnage
Bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 290 and injuring 500 people, in the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago. Here is a timeline of the explosions and subsequent events on Sunday Many of the […]
Qatar Accuses UAE Of Supporting 9/11 Attacks
Qatar has accused the United Arab Emirates of supporting the 9/11 attacks in New York as a diplomatic war of words between the tiny oil-rich state and its Sunni Arab neighbours continues. Several Gulf countries and Egypt cut transport and diplomatic ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of supporting radical Islamist groups.
Hard-line Islamist Groups Meet Official, Popular Roadblocks in Indonesia
After playing a major role in Indonesian politics by influencing the Jakarta election, hard-line Islamist groups may have hit an impasse. Although they were allowed broad leverage to organize and demonstrate across Indonesia in the past year, an effort to replicate their success outside Jakarta fell flat, and the government has taken measures to hamper […]
Most of Britain’s Islamist Terrorists Came From Highly Segregated Muslim Districts
British Islamist terrorists are getting younger and an increasing number had no prior convictions or previous criminal records before carrying out an act of terrorism or being arrested in the later stages of planning attacks, according to a major report to be published this week in London. The rising proportion of militants who are so-called […]
Bangladesh sentences five militants to death for killing Japanese man
Dhaka (dpa) – Five Islamist militants were sentenced to death for killing a Japanese man in the northern Bangladeshi district of Rangpur in 2015, court officials said Tuesday. District judge Noresh Chandra Sarker handed down the verdict to the militants from the banned Islamist group Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh for the murder of Hoshi Kunio, prosecutor […]
Politics, not theology, at root of Islamism, says French scholar
“Never in our recent history [has] the gap between the politically correct discourse about political Islam in France and in the Arab world been so profound,” said . A French political scientist, Arabist and senior researcher at the French Institute for Scientific…
Trump’s Shifting Alliances Have Global Consequences
French and German leadership voiced major concerns Friday over President Donald Trump’s policies in a joint press conference Friday in Berlin where the heads of state highlighted the dual threats of Islamic terror and rising nationalism in Europe. Their remarks are the latest international reaction to what appears to be a significant shift in foreign […]
Choudary’s Imprisonment a Step Forward, But a Small One
After decades of preaching hate on the streets of the U.K. and setting out to drive a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims, Anjem Choudary has finally been arrested for supporting the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Still, this symbolic victory over Islamism and hatred in the U.K. is just that—symbolic, and should not lull civil […]
Leaked German Report Calls Turkey Islamist ‘Platform’
The German government has accused Turkey of being a hub for Islamist groups that allows them to further their aims across the Middle East, according to a leaked confidential document. The document, reported by German public broadcaster ARD and obtained by the Associated Press, was in a classified Interior Ministry response to a confidential question […]
German Islamic terror group leader released early from jail
Berlin (dpa) – The ringleader of a German-based radical Islamist group, thought to be planning a series of terrorist attacks on discos, airports and US installations in the country, has been released from jail early, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Named under German privacy laws as Fritz G, the 36-year-old has been released after serving […]