Turkish police have reportedly detained several people, including an employee of the anti-Islamist newspaper Cumhuriyet, for participating in an assembly against the Islamic State and calling for secularism in light of the jihadist attack on Reina nightclub in Istanbul.
With freedom of expression increasingly under threat by authoritarian governments worldwide, 2016 yielded a crop of loud, defiant tunes from an assortment of envelope-pushers, political dissidents, and would-be pop icons.
2016 was a difficult year in many parts of the world for those who sought to be different under authoritarian regimes. Whether Communists, Islamists, or the religious intolerance of their own families, these individuals took a stand and, in some cases, paid the ultimate price to advocate for freedom.
Imam Habib Rizieq Shihab, the leader of the Shariah promotion group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) is facing criminal charges of violating Indonesia’s laws against blasphemy after a Catholic group accused him of mocking the birth of Jesus Christ.
December 25 marked the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. On this occasion, it is urgent for us to reflect on 3 key lessons that the fall of the Evil Empire provided. They are lessons that the new incoming Trump administration must put into action immediately vis-à-vis our enemy in the terror war.
Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said in no uncertain terms that his government would consider deploying its Peshmerga soldiers against members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who have refused to leave Iraq’s northern Sinjar region.
The Turkish government reportedly announced this weekend that it is monitoring 10,000 people who they believe may be using the internet for “terror-related activity.” The report follows a week in which over 1,500 people were arrested on terrorism charges, most for links to U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish government is responding to a critical situation in Syria, announcing the death of 16 of its troops in al-Bab after the release of an Islamic State video showing jihadists burning two other soldiers alive.
In a February 2002 news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about evidence linking Iraq to supplying terrorist groups with weapons of mass destruction.
Dr. Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser has slammed the ‘anti-Fascist’ group Hope Not Hate (HNH) for their “Orwellian beyond belief” tactics, effectively doing the bidding of Islamic State, Saudi Arabia, and Al-Qaeda by attacking moderate and reformist Muslims.
The infamous Islamic hate preacher and Islamic State recruiter Anjem Choudary was given almost £100,000 of taxpayers’ money to fight his recent conviction.
One of Barack Obama’s first actions as president was ensuring the American public understood what terrorism does not involve.
Indonesian courts have commenced the trial of Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, facing charges of blasphemy for having joked about a paragraph in the Quran that implies Muslims should not be governed by non-Muslims.
A new report in Bloomberg reveals that U.S. authorities are investigating evidence suggesting that the socialist government of Venezuela paid Iran “hundreds of millions” as part of a money laundering scheme designed to avoid human rights sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.
TEL AVIV – A video produced by an Israeli legal rights NGO claiming that Facebook allows incitement leading to Islamic terrorism has gone viral, garnering nearly 1 million views in the four days since it was launched.
The case of the honor killing of Qandeel Baloch, a model and outspoken feminist who became known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian” before her brother strangled her to death at age 26, will once again have to wait, as regional lawyers are on strike in a nation in which their trade is often dangerous.
A Muslim hate preacher, who has called the Queen a terrorist was prosecuted for labeling a woman in tight jeans a “prostitute”, has launched a YouTube channel where he records himself confronting and abusing police.
Perennial Islamic State hostage/spokesman John Cantlie has once again resurfaced in an ISIS propaganda video, this time touring the destruction in the ISIS-held areas of Mosul and interviewing local men sympathetic to the terrorist group, who appear increasingly frustrated with the lack of resources and difficultly getting around the city.
Libyan fighters have announced the near-total eradication of the Islamic State from the coastal city of Sirte, hometown of late dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
Anjem Choudary’s bodyguard, known as the “Muslim enforcer”, has been jailed for attacking a young boy because he was cuddling his non-Muslim girlfriend.
A new study finds that the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has begun to recruit women as well as men. Though not allowed the same liberty to engage in jihad as men are, the desperate poverty many Muslim women find themselves in make the Boko Haram lifestyle and attractive alternative.
U.S.-led coalition officials involved in the operation to eradicate the Islamic State from Mosul say they have succeeded in curbing the number of vehicle-based suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi troops on the ground by “cratering” the city’s roads and knocking down its bridges.
Two Iranian attorneys and their Kenyan driver were arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, and charged Thursday with illegally filming around the nation’s Israeli embassy, gathering film “for the use in the commission of a terrorist act.”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), upon being asked about critics who have called him Russian President Vladimir Putin’s favorite Republican, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday, “Putin is not a perfect guy at all, but he is not Joseph Stalin or even Nikita Khrushchev.” Rohrabacher made the point that Communism, not Russia specifically, was seen as the greatest threat during the Reagan years, and it was, by and large, defeated.
(AFP) – Dutch MPs on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to ban the Islamic full-face burqa from some public places such as schools and hospitals, the latest such move in a European country.
The Turkish military reported Thursday that three of its soldiers died and ten others were wounded in an airstrike believed to have been executed by the troops of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the first such incident in the five-year-old Syrian Civil War.
An Islamist preacher who has attacked Jews, glorified violent jihad, and supports wife beating has addressed students at a prominent London university.
Pakistan has sentenced five people to death in the gruesome 2014 murder of a Christian couple at the hands of a Muslim mob, tortured and burnt to death in the brick kiln they worked at.
The American government has revealed they have “credible information” Islamic State and al-Qaeda are planning to attack Christmas celebrations in Europe this year.
The Nigerian military reported the finding of a shopping list on a Boko Haram terrorist which included a variety of drugs for “libido enhancement” and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
A German court has thrown out a case against a group of extremist Salafist ‘sharia police,’ for the second time, claiming they have not broken the law.
In 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to use “some old fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming” against those whose exercise of free speech “we abhor.”
Indonesia police announced Wednesday that Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, is a suspect in a probe of a blasphemy law violation for joking about the Quran forbidding non-Muslims to rule over Muslim people.
Buzzfeed reporter J. Lester Feder provides a transcript of a speech given by Donald Trump’s new chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon in the summer of 2014 before a conference at the Vatican focused on poverty. Bannon’s remarks predicted the coming populist movements and detailed how the concurrent forces of militant radical Islamic, the corrupt crony capitalism of “the Party of Davos,” and the dehumanizing secularization of the West were all converging into a global conflict.
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s interior ministry says that of the 287 Islamic radicals identified in the country in the past few years, 40 percent arrived as migrants looking for asylum.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has once again threatened to eschew international human rights norms in the context of battling the Islamic State, warning that the impending liberation of ISIS hotbeds like Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria may result in a stream of jihadists making a new home in his nation.
U.S. government and military leaders have begun the mission to convince the government of Turkey that cooperating with Syrian Kurdish militias, which Ankara considers terrorist elements, is the only way to defeat the Islamic State in its self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa.
Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has released a new audio message encouraging his jihadis not to flee the battlefields of Mosul, the terrorist group’s last major stronghold in Iraq. The message follows reports that Baghdadi may be in danger himself as he has chosen to hide in Mosul, not the Islamic State “capital” of Raqqa, Syria.
A Pentagon spokesman has confirmed that the United States is seeking to begin the operation to liberate Raqqa, Syria, of the Islamic State terrorist group as soon as a parallel operation in Mosul, Iraq, is complete.
If Hillary Clinton’s expansionist immigration policies were put into effect, the U.S. Muslim population could exceed France’s current Muslim population by the end of a President Clinton’s second term, according to data from Pew Research and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
