Anti-Turkey Cartoon by Geert Wilders Has a Backstory in the Netherlands
It also claims that the Turkish President is following a Salafi Islamization strategy, which may further influence Dutch Turks.
Radicalization and Religion: How It Happens?
In the current international context, this simplified vision of religion on the international scene has led to the exclusive focus on Islam and terrorism.
France under Macron: All Citizens Can Criticize the Republic Except Muslims
De Gaulle expressed these views in a private conversation - Macron made his speech titled "Separatist Islamism" publicly in Les Mureaux.
How Does China View the Muslim World?
When China’s rulers feel that control is slipping through their fingers, they focus on two nemeses that seem to generate the deepest troubles—the United States and the Islamic world.
Why Is Violence Back to the Streets of Afghanistan?
Suhail Shaheen, Taliban’s negotiating team members in Qatar tweeted last week saying, “The aim of our Jihadic struggles is establishment of an Islamic government.
Can A Third Political Party Bring Change in US Foreign Policy?
Blinken credited the Trump administration's "Abraham accords" which strengthened the ties between Israel and various Arab monarchies and delighted in using the Trump administration's pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal as leverage over the Islamic Republic.
Army to Protect Pakistan’s Troubled Ties with Saudi Arabia
It is worth noting that the Saudi ambassador to Islamabad, Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki, is also a former military man who has been in his current post since September 2017.
China’s Economic Interests in the GCC: Economic Gains over Politics
It also provides a global platform, including Islamic finance, to accelerate the internalization of the renminbi (RMB), the Chinese currency.
ICC Probe in Palestine Brings Some Hope to the Palestinians at Last
Israel and its allies in the United States and other Western countries go to great pains to present the situation in Palestine as a battle of democracy against “Islamofascist terror,” one that can only be solved by total annihilation of the enemy.
Why Did the United States Add Israel to CENTCOM?
On its website, deterring the Islamic Republic is listed by CENTCOM as its number one priority followed by supporting a political resolution in Afghanistan; “maintaining Defeat-ISIS Campaign in Syria and Iraq;” “Countering the UAS Threat” and “Weaponization of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Refugees.
Gulf Regional Rift Mended but Will It Extend to Turkey?
It’s not talked about in a pretentious way, but there is a Pakistani commitment to intervene in a decisive manner if Islam’s holiest cities come under threat and Saudi Arabia seeks help.
Living as Muslim in New Zealand after the Christchurch Mosque Attacks: An Interview with Anjum Rahman
Nihan Duran interviewed Anjum Rahman, a founding member of the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand, on the overall conditions of Muslim communities in New Zealand.
Modern-Day Orientalists Have Never Understood the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring had many messages, the most important of which was that the Arab people could hold their governments…
Hatem Ali’s Contribution to a Collective Memory Spirited by Drama, History, and Politics
The TV drama addresses the events that sparked a 40-year war following the killing of Udai bin Rabia’s brother, highlighting blood feud, a complex phenomenon that predates Islam in the Arab world.
How Turkey and Saudi Arabia Compete in the Balkans
However, the involvement of Saudi Arabia with its Salafi version of Islam in the Balkans has endangered the influence of Turkey on the region’s Muslim communities.
Malaysia and Turkey: Old Friends, New Allies?
Both countries are active members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation.
GCC Breakthrough Faces Risk of Relapse as Underlying Tensions Remain
At issue was Qatar’s support for revolutionary forces, especially Sunni Islamists who were making significant gains amid the upheaval, as well as its positive relations with regional powers Iran and Turkey, all of whom Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain felt threatened Gulf interests.
Political Assassinations: From the Assassins to Modern Politics
Following its establishment, Israel has assassinated key Palestinian political leaders, by planting bombs in their cars (writer Ghassan Kanafani); by poisoning them (Wadi Haddad, who is believed to have been assassinated by Israel by a poisoned chocolate bar); by direct shooting (fatal shooting of Islamic Jihad leader, Fathi Shaghaghi, who was gunned down in Cyprus, and Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s supreme leader, who was killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter as he left a mosque on a wheelchair in 2004).
French Youth and the Far-Right: When Will the Culture War Begin?
Read: Islamophobia Is Now a Source of Pride in FranceThe National Rally, in spite of the young Bardella factor, has remained a party of the elderly.
Morocco Lost One of Its “Sacred” Causes with the Israel Normalization
The Federation of the Democratic Left (FGD), with two deputies in the House of Representatives that protested, but softly; and two other movements without parliamentary representation, who are still considered as the real opposition parties in Morocco: the Marxists of the Democratic Way, and the Islamists of the powerful association Al Adl Wal Ihsane (Justice and Spirituality).
