“Jihadism” does not exist in Islam

July 6, 2014 In a recent op-ed, Hocine Kerzazi speaks of the growing “jihadist movement” and explores the origins of jihad in Islam. Kerzazi speaks to both France’s Muslim population and to scholars around the world who study Islam. He states that “nowhere does the Qur’an gives the term ‘jihad’ the sense of armed conflict, that of…

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5 years after El-Sherbini’s murder: Anti-Muslim Racism and Islamophobia in Germany

July 2, 2014 Jürgen Martens (Minister of Justice) and Helma Orosz (Mayor of the city of Dresden) remembered the quinquennial of the murder of Marwa El-Sherbini; who was tragically killed by a White racist in 2009. Martens said that the terrible act should be a reminder to all of us to work against the presence…

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The Austrian Green parties debate on the burka

July 3, 2014 There are not many women in Austria who wear the burka. However, the Bundesrat of the Green party, Efgani Dönmez, advocated punishing women who wear the burka. For instance, mister Dönmez asked the government to cut down social benefits in those Muslim families, in which women wear the burka. Not only members of…

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Study: Muslims hate terrorism, too [PDF download]

July 1, 2014 In a new study released Tuesday, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that “concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations.” This comes at a particularly fraught moment in the Middle East: the jihadist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized whole swaths of…

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UK imams urge British Muslims to shun Syria and Iraq

July 4, 2014 More than 100 Islamic prayer-leaders from various denominations of Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims have signed a letter calling on British Muslims not to travel to Iraq or Syria to fight. “We urge the British Muslim communities to continue the generous and tireless efforts to support all of those affected by the crisis…

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