The Egyptian president said last weekend that the need for a “unified Arab force” is growing daily as the region faces threats from jihadists such as the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL).
CNN Security and Intelligence Analyst Robert Baer and National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said that while Al Shabaab’s call for terrorist attacks on malls was a “shot in the dark” by a group with “no network,” and an attempt to
Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” the family of Kayla Mueller revealed ISIS asked to swap Aafia Siddiqui, aka Lady al Qaeda, a Pakistani citizen who obtained a doctorate in neuroscience in the United States and was arrested in 2008
The Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar University, who is perhaps the most prominent cleric in Egypt, has called for the crucial need for reform in the teaching of Islam to the country’s people.
Fighting racism, prejudice, and the violence those can beget is everyone’s job. Muslims would do well to respond to President Obama’s invitation to combat extremist ideas in their communities, but too often Washington’s broader policies toward minorities encourage just the opposite.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani indicated that peace negotiations between Afghanistan and the Taliban are within reach now, more than 13 years after the war began, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland.
The Islamic State jihadist group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages.
The weekend’s feel-good story about a Muslim “ring of peace” formed to “protect” Jews at an Oslo synagogue turned out to be a complete fabrication by the mainstream media, according to an eyewitness report, local officials, and attendees’ photos.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” reporting on the impact of ISIS’s mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya last week, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said, “Something else was murdered 21 times
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday,” Department Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said it gives ISIS “dignity” to refer to them as Islamic. When asked why the Obama administration will not acknowledge we are fighting Islamic extremism Johnson
On Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN, Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson warned those going to Minneapolis, MN’s Mall of America “to be particularly careful” after an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group called for attacks on U.S. and U.K.
Tensions are mounting as Cameroon insists on trying eight French nationals who were captured fighting for Boko Haram instead of sending them back to France for trial.
UN Women Liaison Zainab Khan said that dubbing anyone who ties a “theological component” to “radical ideologies” within the Muslim world an Islamophobe undermines progress and on Saturday’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on the Fox News Channel. “There’s a deep ostracization of
Columnist Pat Buchanan said that while the White House’s summit on violent extremism didn’t do anything “ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States of America” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” “I don’t think the summit did a thing,
Myriam, a young Christian girl in Iraq, and her family fled their village near Mosul before the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reached them. Now they live in a refugee camp located in an unfinished mall with only the bare necessities. Despite the hardship, Myriam hopes God forgives the terrorist group.
Last week, President Barack Obama sparked outrage when he declared that the root cause of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism is not radical Islam but poverty.
A New York Times piece on Thursday prominently featured two imams with a long history of radicalism as profiles in courage who lead the movement to “counter violent extremism.”
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on the argument the Obama administration has repeatedly made on whether or not to address Islamic component of ISIS and instead calling it a perversion of
The Syrian army can defeat the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) and al-Qaeda if Jordan and Turkey stop the flow of jihadists across their borders, said the Syrian foreign minister.
The most recent video released by the Islamic State (ISIS) may have been intent on striking fear into the hearts and minds of their enemies, but it bears more semblance to a poorly done and hijacked Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee movie. The creepy, familiar soundtrack in the background also adds to the overall awkwardness.
There are signs that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIL or ISIS) is in decline as the U.S. prepares a massive attack to retake Mosul from the jihadists, according to a U.S. Central Command official.
The UK Daily Mail reports that a young British soldier—as of yet unnamed due to concerns for his safety and not yet officially considered AWOL—has left his post in Cyprus to join up with Kurdish forces in Syria and battle ISIS.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher declared “this idea we cannot call it ‘Islamic terrorism’ seems Orwellian to me” on Friday. Maher began by stating that President Obama’s argument that “no religion is responsible for terrorism, people are responsible for
Dr. Ben Carson, author of “You Have a Brain,” argued that “the only thing that our leaders are willing to stand up for is political correctness” on Friday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “I think everybody can remember
In his bloviating speech on Thursday at his summit on countering violent extremism, President Obama bent over backwards to make nice with Islam. Not only were terrorists not Muslim, President Obama stated, but Islam played a crucial role in America’s founding.
