Tonight (Saturday, Aug. 9), cable channel BBC World News premieres the three-part series The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, which aired last fall in the U.K. (If you don’t have BBC World News on your cable system, the series is available
BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by Sunni militants with “vicious plans,” an Iraqi official said Friday, further underscoring the dire plight of Iraq’s minorities at the hands of the Islamic
LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) – The British government told its citizens to leave parts of Iraqi Kurdistan, including the regional capital Arbil, on Friday as the sweeping advance of Islamist militants brought them closer to Kurdish territory. The government said
On July 31, 2014, the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University put out “an urgent call” to condemn Israel, Israeli scholars, and the Israeli culture of “rape,” “misogyny,” “sexism,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing.” That’s not all. The Institute
Far left MP George Galloway has declared the town of Bradford an “Israel free zone” on a video uploaded to YouTube today. Mr Galloway, who has represented the town since winning a by-election there is 2012, has said Bradford should boycott
The majority of Germans do not think that Islam is a true part of German society, according to a poll by Forsa for Stern magazine. A total of 52 percent said disagreed with former President Christian Wulff’s statement that “Islam
There was one part of Baroness Warsi’s resignation letter I admired: that was when, just after she’d condemned the Coalition’s inaction over Gaza, she brought the full weight of her righteous indignation to bear on Britain’s abject failure to stop
The city of Karamay, in China’s Xinjiang region, “has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from traveling on public buses.” This move comes after imam Jume Tahir was attacked and stabbed to death in Xinjiang and after Chinese
DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — A spokesman for Iraq’s minority Yazidi community says tens of thousands of its members have fled their homes after Sunni militants from the extremist Islamic State group captured their towns. Jawhar Ali Begg, the spokesman, says
I was at the UN Security Council hearing on the war in Gaza on Thursday as a guest of Ambassador Eugene Gasana of Rwanda who held the Security Council presidency through July. I heard the regular condemnations of Israel for being
In a stunning five minute statement read on state television late Friday, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, leader of Israel’s oldest and most implacable foe, called the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza a “collective massacre” caused by Hamas. It is just the
More Muslims are speaking out against the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS. Two Muslim leaders in Indonesia condemned the group and those who support it, while the Supreme Religious Authority in Iraq asked the world to help the
Regardless of your views on gay marriage, gay adoption and so on, I think we can all agree that Israel’s tolerant, liberal society is a much nicer place to live than the barbaric, oppressive, misogynistic and homophobic cultures that seem
A British Muslim mother has been told to expect a “substantial” prison sentence after admitting posting messages on Facebook encouraging terrorism in Syria. The Daily Mail reports that Runa Khan, 34, admitted posting messages such as: “Sisters, if you love
(Reuters) – Three suspected Islamist militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, the authorities said, days after a knife-wielding gang attacked state buildings in the same
A good contrast between pragmatism and raw religious hatred came in recent statements from prominent Sunni voices. Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide and popular Al-Jazeera program host, appeared on the network earlier this month to defend Hamas as
In 1988 I did a film called Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami. It was the brain child of George Englund who produced and directed The Ugly American. He was a wonderfully brilliant fellow who ran both Marlon
Hamas. ISIL. Boko Haram. Many know that these terror groups for their brutality. However many may not know they are also bound together by the common rule of Shariah Law. This system of governing condones a wide variety of abuses.
Following the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led an emerging coalition of Arab states — including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that has, through its silence, effectively lined up
Though glossed over in major media reporting on the Israel-Gaza confrontation, the Hamas conflict with the Jewish State remains deeply ideological. Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV broadcast a sermon Friday reaffirming the Hamas ideology that according to Islam, it is Muslim destiny
For over 2,000 years, Christians and Muslims lived in peace in Mosul, Iraq, the country’s second largest city. That all changed on June 10, 2014 when the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, invaded the city and evicted its Christian population.
Jihadist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have destroyed the mausoleum of St. George, the city’s patron saint, in Mosul, according to L’Osservatore Romano. The same group took over Mosul in June, forcing Christians to
The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, is in control of Mosul in Iraq, but the terrorist group is pushing their luck by targeting historic mosques and shrines. The last straw for the residents is the Crooked Minaret. The jihadists
Germany’s biggest newspaper was forced into a climb down after it criticised Islam’s “criminality,” “murderous contempt” and “honour killings.” “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said, “To put it mildly, the world is a mess. “Can you recall a time when there was so much trouble in so many places around
