Kashmir Al-Qaeda affiliate promotes medieval Islamic worldviews
The medieval Islamic jurists divided the world into two sharply different categories: ‘Dar-ul-Harb’ (land of war) and ‘Darul Islam’ (abode of Islam). The two exclusivist Islamist terms are synonymous More...
Threat of fanatic fatwas looming large in Indian Muslim community
Not long ago, Darul Uloom Deoband issued an edict (fatwa) declaring its ideological offshoot—Tablighi Jama’at—as “misguided”, “preacher of perverted views” and “misinterpreter of Quran More...
Islamist cleric’s Hate Speech in Kolkata: Why Ulema silent?
The Ministry of Home Affairs, in its affidavit in the apex court, has asserted that the issue of Rohingyas fell under the exclusive domain of policy decision of the executive. It categorically stated that the “fundamental More...
Al-Qalam’s jihadist underpinnings: Feeding ‘Muslim victimhood’ narrative in India
The in-house Urdu magazine of the extremist outfit, Jaish-e-Muhammad-al-Qalam has published an article urging the South Asian Muslims to wage a violent jihad in Myanmar in retaliation of the reported persecutions More...
An interplay between women and Islamic radicalisation
Scores of Alimaat (female Islamic scholars) have been at the forefront in Morocco and Algeria in a battle against the religious radicalisation, with an aim to rescue women from the clutches of the radical clergy More...
ISIS defeat in Mosul is not an end to the extremist Islamic ideology
Defeat of ISIS in Mosul The ISIS leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi has reportedly acknowledged his defeat in his ‘farewell sermon’ (Khutba al-Wida’a), which was addressed to the religious preachers of the Islamic More...