Islamic Terrorism

Fox News' "When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife" Kind of Question to Rick Perry

Dorian de Wind | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Gop Presidential Candidates, Fox News, Turkey, Bret Baier, Nato, GOP Presidential Debate, Islamic Terrorism, Rick Perry, Media News

Perhaps we should not focus too much on Perry's answers -- we have heard enough of them and have come to expect them -- but more on Fox's "When did you stop beating your wife" question and on the motives for such a question.

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The True Cost Of 9/11

Maher Arar | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Wars, 9/11, Iraq, Aghanistan, September 11 Anniversary, Islam, Religious Understanding, Islamic Terrorism, Interfaith Engagement, War on Terror, Radical Islam, Religious Tolerance, Interfaith Understanding, Interfaith Dialogue, Peacemaking, Religion News

Politicians should have a moment of truth and admit that the cost of these wars, both in human and economical terms, far outweighs what they have achieved on the ground.

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Is The Islamic Terrorist Threat Overblown?

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Charles Kurzman, Islam, Islamic Extremists, Muslim Extremists, Muslim Terrorism, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Video, Religion News

By Yonat Shimron c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) After a car bomb detonated on Wall Street one minute past the noon lunch hour killing 38 peop...

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Muslim "Terrorists," White "Lone Wolves," and the Lessons of Oslo

Michelle Chen | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Anders Behring Breivik, Christian Extremism, Islamic Terrorism, Christian Radicals, Norway Terrorism, Muslim Extremism, Muslim Radicals, World News

As the facts of Breivik's ideology slowly broke through, mainstream news showed momentary compunction. That emotion was quickly overtaken by a second and equally familiar theme in coverage of political violence: the often-deceptive "lone wolf" trope.

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Algerian Exceptionalism and the Arab Spring

Daniel Wagner | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Algiers, President Bouteflika, Islamic Terrorism, Arab Spring, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Osama Bin Laden, Aqm, World News

While mass protests and civil unrest were unprecedented in much of the rest of the region prior to January of this year, Algeria has had a long history of political upheaval.

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Reject Terrorists, Not Scripture

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden, Christian Terrorism, Islamophobia, Scripture and Terrorism, Islamic Terrorism, Islamofascism, Religious Terrorism, Terrorism and Religion, Religious Fundamentalists, Religious Fanaticism, Islam, Religion News

Reject Islamophobia in favor of terror-o-phobia. The enemy is not a certain religion but barbaric practices done in its name.

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Religious Terror Is a Problem for All Faiths

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Terror, Jews, Islam, Religion, Terrorists, Islamic Terrorism, Jewish, Terrorism, Religion and Politics, Israel, Meir Kahane, Judaism, Religion News

Placing quotation marks around phrases like Jewish terror or Jewish terrorist is foolish at best and dangerous at worst. Jewish terror is real, Islamic terror is real, and so is Christian terror.

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Washington In A War Of Words On How To Label Terrorists

Religion News Service | By Maggie Hyde | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Islam Terrorism, Islamist, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism Label, Islamic Terrorists, Islamic Extremism, Muslim Terrorists, Religion News

By Maggie Hyde Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) In addition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration is fighting on anothe...

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WaPo 'On Faith': Violent 'Muslims' Distort The Tradition

The Washington Post | John Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam Terrorism, Islamic Extremism, Islam Violence, Muslim Extremism, Muslims Terrorism, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Religion News

Religiously motivated violence adds the dimensions of divine authority, religious symbolism, and heavenly reward that enhance recruitment and a willin...

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Does The Hutaree Militia Represent Christianity? A Muslim Knows Better

Yasmin Mogahed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Domestic Terrorists, Militant Christianity, Hutaree, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Religion and Violence, Religious Violence, Christian Militia, Christianity, Domestic Terrorism, Militant Islam, Hutaree Militia Group, Religion News

If there's news of a Muslim terrorist, Islam becomes complicit in the crime. Yet few people are going to accuse Christianity of motivating the terrorism of the Hutaree militia.

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A Comeuppance for Times Square Terrorist

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Times Square, Suicide Bombers, Islamic Terrorism, Islamic Martyrs, Pakistan, Islamic Extremists, Terrorist, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, Politics News

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Dick Cheney: Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Islamic Terrorism, Fascist, George W. Bush, Barack-Obama-Dick-Cheney, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics, Fascism, Nazis, Bill Kristol, Richard Nixon, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Muslims, Politics News

Should it be surprising that Dick Cheney, the guy who is the chief architect of the morally and ethically bankrupt Bush Administration policies on eve...

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Cursed are the Peacemakers

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamic Terrorism, Mumbai Attacks, Politics News

The catastrophic and horrendous attacks in Mumbai are being labeled as India's 9/11. Several thousand innocent civilians have already died in India as...

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A Fuller and More Personal Response to Dorothy Rabinowitz's Attack on Me in the Wall Street Journal

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepak Chopra, Mumbai Attacks, Deepak Chopra Mumbai, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Gotham Chopra, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Midnight's Children, Media News

To trivialize my views on a topic as vast of of terrorism with "Deepak Blames America," as Ms. Rabinowitz has done, not only suggests how abysmally uninformed she is, but also speaks to the ever-sinking journalistic standards of her newspaper.

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Giuliani's Hawks Split Between McCain And Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Kasten, Advisers, Republican Primary, Norman Podhoretz, Rudy Giuliani, Daniel Pipes, Islamic Terrorism, Mccain, Foriegn Policiy, 2008 Election, Foreign Policy Advisers, Romney, Politics News

Former New York City Rudy Giuliani has made up his mind as to whom, in the wake of his failed presidential bid, he will support for the Republican nom...

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