If it can be proven that somebody had information about any attack, and did not give this information to authorities, they must serve prison time .
Islam
This short film is about the acceptance that radical Islam is a bigger problem than most politically correct governments and individuals are ready to admit.
For Muslims around the world, it’s become an almost daily heartbreaking experience to see Islam associated with all the shades of cruelty and inhumanity of so-called Islamic State (IS).
I am a former Sunni Muslim who followed the As-Salaf As-Saalih madh’hab (Salafi School of Thought). The Salafi methodology believes in a strict interpretation of the Qur’an and Islam
Abby Martin interviews Dr. Deepa Kumar, professor of media studies at Rutgers University and author of *Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*, about the roots of this alarming situation. From confronting right-wing…
How often in modern “progressive” conversations are the Crusades used as the go-to example of religious zealotry gone wrong? Characterized as bloodthirsty, authoritarian, wealth-seeking conquests issued by autocratic decree of Pope Urban…
Reading the just-published English edition of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission over the last week has been quite surreal given the real-life events in Paris. (For those unfamiliar with the book, literary gadfly…
Disinfonauts! Episode #4 of Psychedelic Eyes focuses on Fundamentalist death cults and what we can do to fight the scourge of this deadly ideology. Click here to find links to my social…
Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Stanford University and Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland The discovery that several of the Paris attackers were European nationals has fueled concern about Muslim immigrants becoming radicalized in the West….
This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s posts here. Rights groups are charging that a new FBI program to counter “extremism,” expected to be unveiled shortly, employs…
Peter Sinclair writes at Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Following the declaration by Pope Francis in June, leaders in the Islamic world have now issued a warning on climate change to…
Lawrence Davidson writes at Consortiumnews: Prior to the Eighteenth Century – that is prior to the Enlightenment – if you had asked a literate Westerner when he or she thought the most…
In 1910, the English occultist, Freemason, and poet, Aleister Crowley, published a strange and now little-known work called The Scented Garden of Abdullah: The Satirist of Shiraz under the name Abdullah el…
Add this to the list of Arabic contributions to the world, along with Algebra and Chemistry.
Mike LaBossiere via Talking Philosophy: Being from Maine, I got accustomed to being asked about the cold, lobsters, moose and Stephen King. Living in Florida, I have become accustomed to being asked…
Kenitra – My previous article ‘The First People’ hints at the idea that history of mankind is longer than what people generally assume. Some readers and friends have pointed out that history cannot be…
A ring found in a 9th century grave in Birka, Sweden (home to a Viking trading center) suggests that Vikings had contact with Islamic civilizations. The silver ring, found in a Viking…
Rahuldeep Singh Gill writes at the Huffington Post: After the cold-blooded executions of three young Muslims in the shattered safety of their North Carolina apartment, it took a day for the national…
Juan Cole writes at Informed Comment: Did a self-radicalized lone wolf white terrorist kill three young Muslim students in cold blood in Chapel Hill? It is a kind of a stupid question,…
At the recent National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C., President Obama proudly asserted yet again what has become a tired and predictable platitude; one endlessly repeated by countless media pundits, heads of…
John Chuckman writes at CounterPunch: Do you ever solve problems by ignoring them? Most of us would say that is not possible, yet that is precisely what western governments do in their…
So for some reason or another, after centuries of proselytization by the sword and hundreds of terrorist attacks in the 20th/21st century, when a French cartoonist is murdered for being a violence-baiting,…
By now, you’ve probably heard all the details of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. But just in case you haven’t, I’ll fill you in. On Wednesday, two masked gunmen broke into…
Michel Houllebecq, France’s famously controversial novelist, has a new book (Soumission) – published this week in extraordinary timing – depicting a possible future for France with a Muslim president. Both the book and the interview below…
This was article sent to us via Disinfo Tips. via The Huffington Post: It’s not the Muslim Hajj, or the Hindu Kumbh Mela. Known as Arbaeen, it is the world’s most populous…