Islamic Extremists

Somalia: Islamists Whip Women For Wearing Bras

Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia Violence, Women, Women's Rights, Islam, Violence Against Women, Islamic Radicalism, Somalia, Somalia Terrorists, Islamic Extremists, World News

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist group al Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting ...

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Where Are the Malays and Indonesians Heading?

Saad Khan | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Extremists, Aceh-Indonesia-Islamic-Law, Indonesia, Malaysia-Islamic-Court, Malaysia, World News

The recent killing of a major Indonesian militant might decelerate the rise of extremism, but there are other organizations that are ready to pick up the pieces and continue their 'mission.'

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Pakistan's India Infatuation

Saad Khan | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Obama Pakistan, Foreign Aid, Isi, India, Richard Holbrooke, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Islamic Extremists, Pakistan India Relations, Advocacy, Kashmir, World News

India is not a threat to Pakistan, Islamic militancy is. If Pakistan's leaders are still not able to overcome their 'infatuation' with India, then it could prove disastrous for regional stability.

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Good-Minded People Are Losing Ground to Shouting Race-Baiting Hooligans

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Good-minded people who see a need to teach tolerance and engage in civil discussion are cowed into submission by the shouters.

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Saving the Islamic World's Christians

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islamic Extremists, Christians, Palestinian Christians, Islamic Radicalism, World News

Even in Islamic countries not strictly run by Sharia law, pressures mount on local Christians to leave the homes they've known for centuries.

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Obama's Challenge to the Muslim World

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Cairo, Islamic Radicalism, Religion and Politics, Quran, Obama Cairo, Islamic Extremists, Obama, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, World News

Muslims now have the leader of the most powerful nation on earth agreeing with them and seeking their help.

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Cooperation and Conflict: Obama's Cairo Speech

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

In Cairo, President Obama employed a variety of historical, liturgical, and political references to express America's hope for a new beginning with the Islamic world. Here are ten critical lines from the speech.

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Obama to Muslims: Unclench Your Fist

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, Religion and Politics, Islamic Extremists, Obama Administration, Muslims, Obama, Muslim, Barack Obama, Muslim World, World News

Obama recognizes that although most Muslims reject violence, many Muslims do not favor our kind of political system or the full plethora of human rights as we list them.

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Time to Call Off the Predators?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

No single issue that has fueled the flames of anti-Americanism in Pakistan more than the bombings of their country by our Predator drones.

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Detainees Bemoan New Torture Policy

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Sex-and-Domination, Islamic Extremists, CIA Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Abu Ghraib, Comedy News

Al Hussein sighed and looked at his abdomen, where there were no longer any bruises from being slapped. "I never would have become an Islamic Extremist if it weren't for the human rights abuses."

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Religious Fundamentalism Spreads... Beyond Islam

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Varun Gandhi, Islam, Fundamentalism, Bible, Sri Ram Sena, Gaza, Judaism, Oic, Islamic Extremists, Taliban, Promised Land, Pope Benedict XVI, Homosexuality, Religion, Hinduism, Avigdor Lieberman, Torah, Quran, Christianity, Idf, Israel, Old Testament, Stoning, World News

It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.

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"Honor Killing" and Islam

Kamran Pasha | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mo Hassan, Islam, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, Hassan Beheading, Muzzammil Hassan, Islamic Extremists, TV Exec Beheaded, Muzzammil, Muslim TV Exec, Muzammil Hassan, Islamic Radicalism, Muslim Exec, Muslim Tv Exec Accused of Beheading Wife in Ny, Aasiya Hassan, Beheading, World News

Perhaps the way out of this madness for the Muslim community is to look back at the life of Prophet Muhammad and remember his true legacy as a visionary champion of women's rights.

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Obama Administration Omits Kashmir From Envoy's Mandate

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Extremists, India, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Kashmir, World News

Like the conflicts in Afghanistan and Palestine, the Kashmir conflict is one that is talked about in hundreds of thousands of mosques -- not jut in the region, but throughout the world.

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Obama Greatly Changes the Litmus Test

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Extremists, Islam, Obama Administration, Muslim, Terrorism, Barack Obama, Muslim World, World News

Obama, in his very first days in office, has embraced this distinction between moderate and violent Muslims, which is very compatible with the thesis the US and its allies should focus on.

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The US Role in Somalia's Calamity

Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

Read More: President Obama Foreign Relations, President Obama, Somali Pirates, Islamic Extremists, Obama Administration, Bush Administration Foreign Policy, Bush Administration Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Somalia Conflict, Somalia Violence, Somalia Government Collapse, Somalia Government, Somalia, Somali Government, Somalia Militia, Human Rights Crisis Somalia, Internally Displaced Persons, 1998 US Embassy Boming in Kenya, Somali Refugees, Aid Workers, Somalia Rape Victim, Mogadishu, World News

US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.

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Were the Mumbai Terrorists Muslim?

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Hinduism, Religion, Islam, Islam in India, India, Hindu-Muslim Tension, Muslim and Hindu Relations, Bollywood, Mumbai Attacks, Terrorist, Religion and Politics, Islamic Extremists, Mumbai Terrorism, Religion and Values, Muslim, Anti-Muslim Bias, World News

Immediately after the Mumbai attacks attacks, several Bollywood stars, including actor Aamir Khan, began to blog about the problem of associating Islam with terrorism.

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My Uncensored Interview with Deepak Chopra

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, India, War on Terror, Islamic Extremists, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Media, Wall Street Journal, Mumbai Hotel Shootings, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Saudi Arabia, Mumbai Deaths, American Muslims, Deepak Chopra, Muslims, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Mumbai Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, Pakistan, The View, Mumbai, Shock and Awe, Mujahideen, Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Patriotism, Islamic Radicalism, Cnn, Mumbai Attacks, Deepak Chopra Mumbai, Anti-Muslim Bias, Iraq, World News

I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.

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A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming

Johann Hari | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Global Warming, Poverty, Bangladesh, Islamic Extremists, Climate Change, Green News

This spring, I took a month-long road trip across a country that we -- you, me and everyone we know -- are killing: Bangladesh.

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Somali Pirates Pursued By Somali Islamic Insurgents

Reuters | Posted 12.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Oil Prices, Islamic Extremists, Somalia, Pirates, Foreign Affairs, Home News

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that...

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Taliban Storms Afghan Ministry, Kills Five

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Taliban, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Islamic Extremists, Afghan Ministry, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters stormed the Ministry of Culture in the heart of Kabul Thursday, killing five people in an attack the presi...

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Five Guantanamo Prisonners' Charges Dropped By US

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Us Drops Charges, Foreign Affairs, Cuba, Islamic Extremists, Politics News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. military abruptly dropped charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one who allegedly plotted to...

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Taliban In Afghanistan Behead As Many As 30 In Bus Ambush

NY Times | CARLOTTA GALL and TAIMOOR SHAH | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islamic Radicalism, Afghanistan, War Wire, Islamic Extremists, Taliban Beheading, Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus in southern Afghanistan and beheaded as many as 30 of them after accusing...

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Al-Qaeda's Drug Trade Keeps Them Afloat During The Economic Crisis

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Islamic Extremists, Islamic Radicalism, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Opium, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Poverty, Politics News

CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida, which gets its money from the drug trade in Afghanistan and sympathizers in the oil-rich Gulf states, is likely to esca...

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Pakistan Suicide Bomb Targets Lawmaker's Home, Leaves At Least 15 Dead

AP | HABIB KHAN | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan, Suicide Bomb, Pakistan Government, Islamic Extremists, War Wire, Politics News

KHAR, Pakistan — Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military o...

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Stifled In Marriage, Egypt's Young Turn To Islamic Fervor

NY Times | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islamic Extremists, Egyptian Weddings, Warwire, Egypt Militias, Islamic Radicals, War on Terror, Egypt Religion, Politics News

The concrete steps leading from Ahmed Muhammad Sayyid's first-floor apartment sag in the middle, worn down over time, like Mr. Sayyid himself. Once, M...

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