A new report suggests that converts to Islam are more likely to become radicalised than so-called “heritage Muslims”, with criminals and the disaffected being popular targets for jihadi preachers.
A Honduran national living in the United States with temporary protected status has been charged with attempting to set off a weapon of mass destruction in a Miami, Florida shopping mall in an Islamic State-style attack.
A new report commissioned by the Soufan Center has outlined the threat posed by potential Western Islamic State (ISIS) fighters returning to their countries of origin as the caliphate continues to collapse.
Robert O’Neill, former Navy SEAL and author, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Tuesday regarding his new book, The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior.
Riyadh – Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday vowed to restore “moderate, open” Islam in a kingdom known for its ultra-conservative rule.
Several gay dating apps have issued warnings and tips to users in majority-Muslim Egypt, where the LGBT community is currently facing persecution.
The only LGBT club in majority-Muslim nation Kyrgyzstan has closed following an increase in anti-LGBT abuse.
Lincolnshire Police has been slammed for using public resources to produce a 12-minute video promoting Islam in the UK.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A strong smell of blood and flesh permeated the Imam Zaman mosque in Kabul on Saturday hours after dozens of Shiite worshipers were slaughtered by a suicide bomber during evening prayers.
A Channel 4 documentary designed to expose Britain as bigoted towards Muslims has been accused of racism and bigotry.
TEL AVIV – Muslims in the West must renounce extremism and fanatical ideas and start expressing more gratitude towards their host nations, a Jordanian journalist wrote in an Arabic-language oped translated this week by MEMRI.
It takes time to judge the full impact of an event as momentous as the Iraq War. If hindsight is 20/20, as the old saying goes, it would be foolish not to look back when 20/20 vision is finally achieved. Most effects of the Iraq War, over the long term, have proven to be disastrous.
Police in Pakistan have arrested Mufti Mohammad Qawi for his alleged role in the honor killing of social media star Qandeel Baloch. Baloch’s brother strangled the 26-year-old, who had become famous for posting seductive photos on Facebook, after she called Qawi a “hypocrite” on social media and accused him of violating the Ramadan fast.
In the wake of Somalia’s jihadist massacre last Saturday, Pope Francis told an interreligious gathering that those who justify acts of violence “in the name of religion” gravely offend God.
The Washington Post willingly ignored the illegal alien-status of a man who is accused of brutally murdering a Muslim teenager in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The head of Ofsted has defended single-sex schools after a court ruled that gender segregation at the UK’s first state-funded Muslim school was a form of discrimination.
Alleging U.S. “rape culture” caused the Hollywood sex abuse scandal, the Independent has claimed that only Islam can provide the answer to preventing violence against women.
A German lawmaker and member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has sparked uproar by proposing the observance of Muslim public holidays.
A local council in the United Kingdom has banned a rare bookseller from having a stall in Loughborough Market after someone complained that novelty mugs she had for sale could be “offensive to Muslims”.
Segregating boys from girls in a state-funded Muslim secondary school classroom is unlawful sex discrimination, a court has found.
A policeman has been fired from the Cumbria force for gross misconduct after making a Facebook comment that was judged as likely to cause offence to Muslims.
Homophobia in the Muslim world is “becoming very inconvenient for liberals because liberals are apologists for Islam,” Michael Lucas, a gay pornographic film star and director, charged in a radio interview Sunday.
Do you remember that scene in Harry Potter and the Saucer Full of Surrender Monkeys where the staff and pupils at Hogwarts finally decide to abandon the struggle against the forces of evil? Voldemort, they’ve realized, is just too darn scary; the Death Eaters
London UKIP MEP Gerard Batten has gone on the offensive after a week’s ban from micro-blogging site Twitter for calling Islam a “death cult”, doubling down on his original remarks. An outspoken critic of radical Islam, Batten was banned on
With many carrots and some sticks, ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia seeks to tackle entrenched male attitudes towards women drivers before millions take the wheel, many for the first time, next June.
In the wake of the Marseille jihadist attack Saturday, French politician Marine Le Pen has called for anti-terrorist legislation that directly combats Islamist ideology, which “wages war” on the West and seeks “our enslavement.”
Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, is currently considering a ban on LGBT television characters, according to a report.
A Muslim-only laundromat operating in Malaysia designed to maintain “purity” of Islamic clothing is causing controversy among the country’s various religious groups.
Seventeen men “suspected of homosexuality” were tried in Egypt on Sunday on charges of “debauchery” and “incitement to debauchery,” according to a report.
TEL AVIV — The king of Saudi Arabia announced a royal decree last week lifting restrictions on women that forbade them from driving or acquiring a driver’s license, before which Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world to impose such a ban on female drivers.
A jury found Alton Nolen, a.k.a. Jah’Keem Yisreal guilty Friday of beheading his co-worker. The Islamic convert is asking to be put to death for the crime.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported this week that some Uighur Muslims in China’s westernmost province of Xinjiang have accused the police of confiscating their Qurans, claiming the seminal Islamic text contains “extremist content.”
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Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques, including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues.
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to free American pastor Andrew Brunson, imprisoned for allegedly spreading both pro-Kurdish propaganda and supporting Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen despite being a Christian, in exchange for Gulen himself on Thursday.
A British born Imam who was caught given hate-filled sermons by an undercover police officer who attended the mosque has been jailed for six and a half years.
Poland’s bishops have urged the nation’s Catholics to join a massive rosary prayer crusade along the country’s 2,000-mile border to pray for the salvation of their country.
TEL AVIV — A gay pride flag flown by fans at a concert by the controversial Lebanese band Mashroo Layla (Night Project) has set off a storm in Egyptian media.
The news of the passing of the King of Pop is the start of a crisis of conscience for Sheikh Khalid Hani, the main character of the movie “Sheikh Jackson,” Egypt’s first feature film to focus on the religious movement known as Salafis, followers of one of the strictest interpretations of Islam.
Islamic schools including those funded by the British government and private institutions are forcing children — some of whom are very young — to wear the Islamic Hijab as part of their uniform code.
