Tag: Islamic extremism

Pakistani boy refused bail in Kaaba ‘blasphemy’ case

February 13, 2017 Pakistan Blasphemy, Islamic extremism, Kasur, Lahore, Nabeel Masih, Nadeem Masih, Sweepers

UPDATE (13 Feb, 2017): A Pakistani Christian boy accused of blasphemy for “liking” and “sharing” a Facebook post which “defamed and disrespected” the Kaaba in Mecca – the building at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque – has been refused bail. Lawyers for Nabeel Masih, 16, argued that he . . . Read More

Niger: Christians and Muslims fighting radicalism

February 9, 2017 Niger Charlie Hebdo, Islamic extremism, Maradi, Niger, Nigeria, Zinder

January 2015 saw a murderous attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which killed 12 journalists. In Niger, as in much of the Muslim world, protests against the work of Charlie Hebdo, which was claimed to have insulted Islam’s prophet, became violent, as more than . . . Read More

Kaduna deaths – Nigeria army complicit?

February 9, 2017 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria

Does anyone hear? Does anyone care? The UK ‘Spectator’ reporter Douglas Murray is dismayed after visiting northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, where he found communities torn apart by a conflict that has been allowed alternately to simmer and rage, for years, without intervention. In the last couple of months the . . . Read More

DRC – more reports allege ‘caliphate’ in N. Kivu

February 9, 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Islamic extremism, North Kivu, Sharia

The International Business Times UK writes about the apparent Islamic agenda of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. World Watch Monitor recently highlighted a UN report stating the same concern. Three decades since its start in Uganda in the 1990s, “the mysterious rebel . . . Read More

‘Religious freedom key to Trump war on terrorism’

February 3, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Islamic extremism, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, USA

An American Muslim says propagating freedom of religion is the key to US President Donald Trump’s aim to “eradicate” radicalism and terrorism “from the face of the earth”. Amer Aziz, writing for The Hill, praised the establishment in 1998 of an office of Religious Freedom in the US State Department, . . . Read More

Extremism inside Indonesia’s largest Islamic group

February 2, 2017 Indonesia Ahok, Blasphemy, Indonesia, Islamic Defenders Front, Islamic extremism, Joko Widodo, Nahdlatul Ulama

After Indonesian Christian leaders met the country’s President to plead for action against the country’s Islamic Defenders Front, there are now fears that the largest Islamic organisation in Indonesia may also be becoming increasingly conservative in its views. The Christian leaders told President Joko Widodo that the Islamic Defenders Front . . . Read More

Trump’s pledge to persecuted Christians – welcome news or harmful to those he seeks to protect?

February 1, 2017 Bishop Angaelos, Donald Trump, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Migrants, Refugees, Syria, Terrorism

Donald Trump has spoken of the need to prioritise refugees from persecuted faith groups – especially Christians – at the same time as he has halted immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. World Watch Monitor summarises the response of Christian opinion leaders in America and elsewhere. US President Donald Trump’s executive order . . . Read More

Trump’s migrant policy ‘a trap for Christians’

January 30, 2017 Bishop Angaelos, Damascus, Donald Trump, Islamic extremism, Louis Raphael I Sako, Middle East, Migrants, Refugees, Syria, USA

US President Donald Trump’s fast-tracking of Christian refugees from the Middle East will be “a trap,” according to Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, Primate of the Eastern Catholic Church. “Every reception policy that discriminates the persecuted and suffering on religious grounds ultimately harms the Christians of the East,” he . . . Read More

Gambia no longer an Islamic Republic

January 30, 2017 The Gambia Adama Barrow, Islamic extremism, The Gambia, West Africa, Yahya Jammeh

The Gambia’s new president, Adama Barrow, has pledged reforms, including removing laws which violate freedom of religion. In December 2015, ex-president Yahya Jammeh had declared the West African country an Islamic republic, saying the decision was made because Islam is the religion of most citizens, raising fear among Christians and . . . Read More

Maldives removes church image from school textbook

January 20, 2017 Maldives Education, Islamic extremism, Maldives

The Maldives government has recalled a school textbook that contained illustrations of two churches, after protests from parents. The social studies textbook was for children in Grades 1-4 at the Gateway International School. The new management at the school has been accused by a local news website, Miadhu, of using . . . Read More

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