Gaza Sermon on Hamas TV: “Battle with Jews and Crusaders Continues”
In a June 11 sermon aired on Al-Aqsa TV, a Hamas-affiliated preacher from Gaza said: “Whoever believes that our battle with the Jews and the Crusaders has subsided or is dormant is living in...
View ArticleThe Paradox of the Muslim Feminist
Efraim Halevy, former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, told the European Parliament that Turkish women are “some of the most militant, and spearhead the effort to Islamicize Turkey today.”...
View ArticleGhosts From Syria’s 30 Years of Fear
The Syrian city of Tadmor, east of Damascus, known as Palmyra to Romans and tourists alike, was home to one of the regime’s fearsome jails. This was the site of a massacre of Islamist prisoners –...
View ArticleIs Jerusalem Sacred for Muslims?
Muslims were initially commanded to pray toward Jerusalem. But when the Jews refused to convert to Islam, Muhammad changed the prayer direction toward Mecca. Islamic sources from the first 50 years...
View ArticleIs Obama’s Muslim Outreach Working?
For two years, President Obama has labored to improve America’s standing in the eyes of the Muslim world. Mr. Obama is much better liked than his predecessor, which has yielded more favorable ratings...
View ArticleRussia to Launch Muslim TV Channel
Russia will launch a Muslim satellite television channel in February or March in the hope it will foster tolerance, state-run media reported on Tuesday. The channel will serve some 20 million Muslims,...
View ArticleMuslim Birth Rate Falls, Population to Grow More Slowly
Falling birth rates will slow the world’s Muslim population growth over the next two decades, reducing it on average from 2.2% a year in 1990-2010 to 1.5% a year from now until 2030, according to a new...
View ArticleHizb ut-Tahrir: Islam Has Replaced Communism as Top U.S. Enemy
Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), a radical Islamist group which claims a presence in nearly 50 countries, is so confident it can help establish a global Muslim government – or caliphate – that it distributed a...
View ArticlePanel: Jerusalem of Incidental Importance in Islam
Jerusalem is of incidental significance to Islam, according to a panel of scholars who met Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East...
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