A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country... [whose] m...
A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country… [whose] men...
In a video that he posted to his FaceBook page on January 17, 2019, Algerian Imam Ali 'Ayyah said: "I ask the imams who preach at mosques and deliver sermons to include in their Friday sermons and lessons a warning against the imminent dangers facing our children, who log on to Y...
During a December 21, 2018, interview on France 24 Arabic TV, French-Moroccan journalist Zineb El Rhazoui discussed death threats she had received and violent comments that had been made about her after she said on TV that Islam must learn to accept criticism, abide by French law...
During a December 1, 2018 press conference, Chadian politician Mahamat Zene Bada praised Chadian president Idriss Déby's recent visit to Israel. Bada, who is the secretary-general of Chad's ruling political party, MPS (Patriotic Salvation Movement), said that Israel is recognized...
During an interview on the Turkey-based MB-affiliated Channel 9 TV, Libyan researcher Dr. Ali Al-Siba'i said that the Jihad that terrifies the world today was sanctioned by shari'a law in order to establish justice, and that humanity was relieved of oppression, exploitation, and ...
A debate about female circumcision in Sudan took place on "Shabab Talk," a show on Germany's Arabic-language Deutsche Welle TV channel. During the debate, Sudanese Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh, who is head of the Sudanese Islamic Scholars' Association, said that he supports fo...
A debate about the sexual harassment of women in Sudan took place on Shabab Talk, an Arabic-language TV show on Deutsche Welle TV. Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh, who is the head of the Sudanese Islamic Scholars' Association and who participated in the debate, said that the stat...
Moroccan author Rachid Aylal said that Islamic heritage has become "like a grave, surrounded by flowers, with buried rot underneath." Those clinging to the heritage "have given us ISIS and people who accuse of heresy anyone who believes the Earth is round," he said. In an ntervie...
Libyan researcher Dr. Ali Al-Siba'i said that Jerusalem had once belonged to the Jews, but “because they did what was forbidden to them, and they denied the signs of Allah, slayed the prophets, and committed offenses and mortal sins, and so on, Allah took this honor from them and...
South African trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich called to "kick out" the Israeli ambassador to South Africa, close the harbors to any Israeli product, and investigate the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, saying that anybody who condones what is happening in Palestine has no p...
Fawzia Peer, deputy mayor of Durban, South Africa, said that the "collective power of ordinary people" would "bring apartheid Israel… tumbling into dust." Calling U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley a "shameless woman," she said that "if there is no two-state solution, the on...
In a recent episode of the "Ask a Sister" Q&A Islamic show, a viewer in the West asked scholar Maseeha Saloojee whether she recommends making hijra to Syria and joining the Jihad in the current climate. Saloojee responded that because of all the different groups in Syria, "it...
In a Friday sermon delivered in August 2017 at the Masjidul Quds in Cape Town, South Africa, Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks, Director of Al Quds Foundation SA, said that the Jews have no right to the Western Wall and that "in 1967, we lost the Wall of Al-Buraq... an integral part of th...
Madeleine Alingué, the new Chadian Minister of Postal Services, New Technologies, Information, and Communications, aroused controversy in the swearing-in ceremony of the Chadian government, when she insisted on saying the word "God" instead of "Allah." The initial decision to rej...
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Masjid Al Furqaan in Cape Town, South Africa, Sheikh Riyaad Fataar said that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was "slipping from the hands of the Islamic nation... because the plans of the Jews are moving [ahead]." Quoting Saladin and saying that Muslims "ar...
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Masjid Al Furqaan in Cape Town, South Africa, Sheikh Riyaad Fataar said that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was "slipping from the hands of the Islamic nation... because the plans of the Jews are moving [ahead]." Quoting Saladin and saying that Muslims "ar...
The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
On March 4, 2018, the Islamic State (ISIS) media distributed a video with the title "The Attack of the Brave on the U.S. ...
French-Tunisian Imam Hassen Chalghoumi spoke out against political Islam, saying that takfir (accusing others of heresy) "is a part of the Islamic nation and the Arab world" and that ISIS emerged "from our own countries, from among our sons." Chalghoumi, who is the imam of the Dr...
"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russia's relations with African countries.
The original image was taken from Studiya 13's Facebook page.
Russ...
"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russia's relations with the Central African Republic (CAR), and Sudan.
The original image was taken from Studiya...
Moroccan author and researcher Abdelilah Belkziz said that contrary to the "common narrative" that the Jihadi movements were created by America and the West, these Jihadi groups are a "local product," created by our educational system and political culture, "which is based on exc...
In a December 8, 2017 Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of Tennessee in Antioch, a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, Somali-American Imam Ahmedulhadi Sharif criticized terror attacks in the West, such as the October 2017 vehicular attack in Manhattan, saying that they "take...
In a recent Friday sermon in a mosque in Antioch, a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, Somali-American Imam Ahmedulhadi Sharif criticized those who carry out terror attacks in the West, such as the October 2017 vehicular attack in Manhattan, saying that they "take innocent liv...
Moroccan journalist and writer Ahmed Assid said that "we must reach the level of openness and sincerity that enables us to say that some texts should be nullified and completely abandoned because they are religious texts that pertain to a certain context which no longer exists an...
Tunisians protested at the opening of a Holocaust exhibition at the National Library in Tunis, tearing down posters and chanting slogans such as "Free Palestine, out with the Zionists." Tunisian University Professor Habib Kazdaghli, the exhibition's organizer, said that the purpo...
Tunisians protested at the opening of a Holocaust exhibition at the National Library in Tunis, tearing down posters and chanting slogans such as "Free Palestine, out with the Zionists." Tunisian University Professor Habib Kazdaghli, the exhibition's organizer, said that the purpo...
Speaking at the ANC Conference in South Africa on December 16, Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub called to ban "products of the illegal occupiers" from international markets and welcomed the ANC's decision to downgrade South African diplomatic representation in Israel....
Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
Russia, Iran and Turkey make order in Syr...
Algerian historian Dr. Nasser Al-Din Saidouni said that the Arab peoples, still in a "tribal" stage, have not been able to obtain the "internal stimuli" necessary to create a true renaissance, but instead "borrow European enterprises, imagining that they would save us and make us...
The fate of Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, whose death sentence for affronting the Prophet Muhammad was commuted to two years in prison after he repented, continues to inflame public sentiment. In a France 24 TV debate, which aired on November 13, Mauritanian p...
In a Friday sermon delivered in Antioch, Tennessee, Somali-American Imam AhmedulHadi Sharif said that the Zionists, the "number one terrorists in the world," had "kidnapped" the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Imam Sharif prayed to Allah to "inflict Your revenge upon them" and to "make a deterre...
Abdelfattah Mourou, Vice-President of the Tunisian Parliament and the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party, talked about the mistakes made by the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that they did not understand that the people who rebelled in the Arab Spring did not do so in order to instate ...
During a TV debate on conspiracy theories, Algerian political analyst Reda Boudraa said that great Arab and Muslim minds were "contemplating how to dismantle the global system" and that the notion of conspiracy should be used as a strategic weapon. We should "conspire against [th...
In an article published August 10, 2017 in the Algerian daily Al-Shurouq, journalist Sultan Barkani wrote that the Muslims' dispute with the Jews is religious rather than political. He stated that the Jews have been plotting against the Muslims since the days of the Prophet Muham...
Sudanese strategic expert Major-General Younis Mahmoud said that there is evidence in the Quran that "these Jews, these Zionists, never adhere to treaties" and that "the handiwork of the Jews and the Zionists" can be seen in today's problems. He was responding to comments made by...
A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country... [whose] m...
During a December 21, 2018, interview on France 24 Arabic TV, French-Moroccan journalist Zineb El Rhazoui discussed death threats she had received and violent comments that had been made about her after she said on TV that Islam must learn to accept criticism, abide by French law...
A debate about female circumcision in Sudan took place on "Shabab Talk," a show on Germany's Arabic-language Deutsche Welle TV channel. During the debate, Sudanese Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh, who is head of the Sudanese Islamic Scholars' Association, said that he supports fo...
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Masjid Al Furqaan in Cape Town, South Africa, Sheikh Riyaad Fataar said that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was "slipping from the hands of the Islamic nation... because the plans of the Jews are moving [ahead]." Quoting Saladin and saying that Muslims "ar...
The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
On March 4, 2018, the Islamic State (ISIS) media distributed a video with the title "The Attack of the Brave on the U.S. ...
French-Tunisian Imam Hassen Chalghoumi spoke out against political Islam, saying that takfir (accusing others of heresy) "is a part of the Islamic nation and the Arab world" and that ISIS emerged "from our own countries, from among our sons." Chalghoumi, who is the imam of the Dr...
"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russia's relations with African countries.
The original image was taken from Studiya 13's Facebook page.
Russ...
"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russia's relations with the Central African Republic (CAR), and Sudan.
The original image was taken from Studiya...
In a December 8, 2017 Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of Tennessee in Antioch, a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, Somali-American Imam Ahmedulhadi Sharif criticized terror attacks in the West, such as the October 2017 vehicular attack in Manhattan, saying that they "take...
Tunisians protested at the opening of a Holocaust exhibition at the National Library in Tunis, tearing down posters and chanting slogans such as "Free Palestine, out with the Zionists." Tunisian University Professor Habib Kazdaghli, the exhibition's organizer, said that the purpo...
Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
Russia, Iran and Turkey make order in Syr...
In an article published August 10, 2017 in the Algerian daily Al-Shurouq, journalist Sultan Barkani wrote that the Muslims' dispute with the Jews is religious rather than political. He stated that the Jews have been plotting against the Muslims since the days of the Prophet Muham...
In recent weeks there has been a heated debate in Sudan regarding normalizing relations with Israel. The debate was sparked by Sudanese Investment Minister Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi, who stated, in an August 21, 2017 interview on Sudania 24 TV, that normalization with Israel coul...
Sudanese Minister of Investment Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi said that the Arab countries have "peddled in the Palestinian cause ad nauseam" and that normalization of ties with Israel should be determined on the basis of Sudan's interests. "I don't think it is such a big deal," he s...
The following report is a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.The Barelvi
movement in Islam originated from the northern Indian town of Bareilly. It is a
movement within Sunni Islam and holds...
The following report is a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
The following is the text of a fatwa published by a South Africa-based Indian Barelvi organization. Just as the Isla...
In a video posted online on May 19, 2014, a U.K. Islamist women respond to Boko Haram's kidnapping of 276 Nigerian girls, asking why the West is "so bothered about 276 Nigerian girls" when "the Nigerian government does not care about these girls" and "the U.S. and U.K. don't care...
About one month ago, the global jihad group Boko Haram, which operates in Nigeria, kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls, most of them Christian, from their secondary school in the town of Chibok in the northeast of the country. Initially the organization announced it intended to sell...
The following report is a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here. According to media reports, among the perpetrators of the terror attack on the Nairobi mall are British and American nationals....
Recently, the issue of child marriage was in the headlines in Nigeria, following a Senate debate on a series of constitutional amendments proposed by the Constitution Review Committee. One of the proposed amendments concerns Section 29 of the constitution, which deals with the re...
On August 7, 2013, the Somali Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen released a 39-minute video about three Americans from Minnesota who joined the group and died fighting in Somalia. The video, titled "The Path to Paradise: From the Twin Cities to the Land of the Two ...
On March 16, 2012, in a rather bizarre and very brief (one minute) appearance, American commander of the Somali Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen 'Omar Hammami (aka Abu Mansour Al-Amriki) stated that that his life may be threatened by the organization over what he calls "d...
Following are excerpts from a religious program featuring Egyptian cleric Sheikh Masoud Anwar, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on February 20, 2012. Masoud Anwar: "Why did America invade [Somalia]? The people of Somalia had almost united. It is an Arab [sic] and Islamic country, and ...
Fazoul 'Abdallah Muhammad On January 17, 2012, the jihadi website Shumoukh Al-Islam posted a summary of the biography of Fazoul 'Abdallah Muhammad, commander of Al-Qaeda in East Africa, who was killed several months ago. The biography was written by a member of the website nickna...
Alleged CIA spy Ahmad Hussein 'Ali The Somali jihad group Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen has released a new video titled "They Are the Enemy, Beware of Them," showing the confession of a Somali man who allegedly spied for the CIA among the mujahideen in Somalia. The following are the fi...
In a new video released by Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, a Kenyan operative in the Somali jihad organization going by the name Ahmad Iman 'Ali said that Kenya had invaded Somalia out of the enmity it bore toward Islam and the Muslims, and called on Kenyan Muslims to come to the aid of...
On October 29, 2011 the Somali jihad organization Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen carried out an attack on a Mogadishu base of the African Union Mission in Somalia's (AMISOM) force. A Somali website posted an audio file of what it said was message recorded by a Somali-American identified...
On August 5, 2011, the English-language jihadi forum Ansar Al-Mujahideen published an article about a Westerner, whose name it gave as Mustafa Al-Muhajir, who died in combat while fighting for Shabab Al-Mujahideen in Somalia. Apparently a Somali youth raised in the West, Mustafa...
These report is a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM.) Subscription information is available at http://subscriptions.memri.org/content/en/member_registr_jttm.htm. On August 2, 2011, the Salafi-jihadi website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad p...
On July 11, 2011, the English-language forum Ansar Al-Mujahideen published an article titled "The Path of Departures – Reminiscing [on] the Martyrs of Somalia" by an individual calling himself "Abu Yaser Al-Maqsidhi" (Abu Yasser of Mogadishu), who is identified on the site as a m...
On May 11, 2011, American jihadist 'Omar Hamami, also known as Abu Mansour Al-Amriki, spoke at a rally held by the Somali jihad organization Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen commemorating Osama bin Laden. In his speech, released in an audio recording that appeared on the jihadi websites ...
On March 8, 2011, liberal Somali journalist Bashir Goth posted on his blog a column titled "A Tale of Two Shabab Movements: Egyptian and Somali." In it, he compared the "non-ideological, peaceful and sophisticated approach to civil unrest" of the Egyptian youth who overthrew th...
Following are excerpts from a video by Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, which was posted on the Internet on November 23, 2010: To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memri.org/legacy/clip/0/0/0/0/0/0/2690. "By the Grace of Allah, Somalia has Become a Popular Destination for ...
Several days before U.S. federal officials in Washington, D.C., announced the indictments of 14 people for allegedly providing support to Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen,[1] a video by Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen on the July 2010 Kampala attacks and the deaths of AMISOM troops in Mogadishu w...
Following are excerpts from a debate on the civil war between Sufis and Salafis in Somalia, which aired on Al-Alam TV (Iran) on June 3, 2010. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2554. Sufi Sheik: Salafis "Focus on Politics, on Gaining Control,...
Following the murder in Somalia of two soccer fans as they watched a televised World Cup game, Jamil Al-Thiyabi, director of the editorial board of the Saudi London-based daily Al-Hayat, penned an op-ed in the paper titled "Soccer is Forbidden!" In it, he stated that these fatwas...
Introduction Recent months have seen the Somali militant jihadi group Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (henceforth Al-Shabab) and the Kenyan jihadi group Muslim Youth Center (henceforth MYC) strengthening their ties, as manifest in the ascendancy of MYC leader Sheikh Ahmad Iman Ali withi...
Introduction On July 29, 2011, the U.S. Department of Treasury declared U.S.-born Omar Hammami, aka Abu Mansur Al-Amriki, who is a leader of the Al-Qaeda-affiliate in Somalia Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen, a Specially Designated National, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13536, whi...
Background As part of its research, the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor follows the multiple ways in which jihadi groups are using Twitter – "tweeting" news flashes from the jihadi fronts, reporting attacks, battles, and other operational activities, sharing videos, and ...
Introduction The Nile River is the longest river in the world. From its major source, Lake Victoria in east central Africa, the White Nile flows generally north through Uganda and into Sudan where it meets the Blue Nile in Khartoum, which rises in the Ethiopian highlands. The Nil...
A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country… [whose] men...
In a video that he posted to his FaceBook page on January 17, 2019, Algerian Imam Ali 'Ayyah said: "I ask the imams who preach at mosques and deliver sermons to include in their Friday sermons and lessons a warning against the imminent dangers facing our children, who log on to Y...
During a December 1, 2018 press conference, Chadian politician Mahamat Zene Bada praised Chadian president Idriss Déby's recent visit to Israel. Bada, who is the secretary-general of Chad's ruling political party, MPS (Patriotic Salvation Movement), said that Israel is recognized...
During an interview on the Turkey-based MB-affiliated Channel 9 TV, Libyan researcher Dr. Ali Al-Siba'i said that the Jihad that terrifies the world today was sanctioned by shari'a law in order to establish justice, and that humanity was relieved of oppression, exploitation, and ...
A debate about the sexual harassment of women in Sudan took place on Shabab Talk, an Arabic-language TV show on Deutsche Welle TV. Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh, who is the head of the Sudanese Islamic Scholars' Association and who participated in the debate, said that the stat...
Moroccan author Rachid Aylal said that Islamic heritage has become "like a grave, surrounded by flowers, with buried rot underneath." Those clinging to the heritage "have given us ISIS and people who accuse of heresy anyone who believes the Earth is round," he said. In an ntervie...
Libyan researcher Dr. Ali Al-Siba'i said that Jerusalem had once belonged to the Jews, but “because they did what was forbidden to them, and they denied the signs of Allah, slayed the prophets, and committed offenses and mortal sins, and so on, Allah took this honor from them and...
South African trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich called to "kick out" the Israeli ambassador to South Africa, close the harbors to any Israeli product, and investigate the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, saying that anybody who condones what is happening in Palestine has no p...
Fawzia Peer, deputy mayor of Durban, South Africa, said that the "collective power of ordinary people" would "bring apartheid Israel… tumbling into dust." Calling U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley a "shameless woman," she said that "if there is no two-state solution, the on...
In a recent episode of the "Ask a Sister" Q&A Islamic show, a viewer in the West asked scholar Maseeha Saloojee whether she recommends making hijra to Syria and joining the Jihad in the current climate. Saloojee responded that because of all the different groups in Syria, "it...
In a Friday sermon delivered in August 2017 at the Masjidul Quds in Cape Town, South Africa, Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks, Director of Al Quds Foundation SA, said that the Jews have no right to the Western Wall and that "in 1967, we lost the Wall of Al-Buraq... an integral part of th...
Madeleine Alingué, the new Chadian Minister of Postal Services, New Technologies, Information, and Communications, aroused controversy in the swearing-in ceremony of the Chadian government, when she insisted on saying the word "God" instead of "Allah." The initial decision to rej...
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Masjid Al Furqaan in Cape Town, South Africa, Sheikh Riyaad Fataar said that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was "slipping from the hands of the Islamic nation... because the plans of the Jews are moving [ahead]." Quoting Saladin and saying that Muslims "ar...
Moroccan author and researcher Abdelilah Belkziz said that contrary to the "common narrative" that the Jihadi movements were created by America and the West, these Jihadi groups are a "local product," created by our educational system and political culture, "which is based on exc...
In a recent Friday sermon in a mosque in Antioch, a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, Somali-American Imam Ahmedulhadi Sharif criticized those who carry out terror attacks in the West, such as the October 2017 vehicular attack in Manhattan, saying that they "take innocent liv...
Moroccan journalist and writer Ahmed Assid said that "we must reach the level of openness and sincerity that enables us to say that some texts should be nullified and completely abandoned because they are religious texts that pertain to a certain context which no longer exists an...
Tunisians protested at the opening of a Holocaust exhibition at the National Library in Tunis, tearing down posters and chanting slogans such as "Free Palestine, out with the Zionists." Tunisian University Professor Habib Kazdaghli, the exhibition's organizer, said that the purpo...
Speaking at the ANC Conference in South Africa on December 16, Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub called to ban "products of the illegal occupiers" from international markets and welcomed the ANC's decision to downgrade South African diplomatic representation in Israel....
Algerian historian Dr. Nasser Al-Din Saidouni said that the Arab peoples, still in a "tribal" stage, have not been able to obtain the "internal stimuli" necessary to create a true renaissance, but instead "borrow European enterprises, imagining that they would save us and make us...
The fate of Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, whose death sentence for affronting the Prophet Muhammad was commuted to two years in prison after he repented, continues to inflame public sentiment. In a France 24 TV debate, which aired on November 13, Mauritanian p...
In a Friday sermon delivered in Antioch, Tennessee, Somali-American Imam AhmedulHadi Sharif said that the Zionists, the "number one terrorists in the world," had "kidnapped" the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Imam Sharif prayed to Allah to "inflict Your revenge upon them" and to "make a deterre...
Abdelfattah Mourou, Vice-President of the Tunisian Parliament and the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party, talked about the mistakes made by the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that they did not understand that the people who rebelled in the Arab Spring did not do so in order to instate ...
During a TV debate on conspiracy theories, Algerian political analyst Reda Boudraa said that great Arab and Muslim minds were "contemplating how to dismantle the global system" and that the notion of conspiracy should be used as a strategic weapon. We should "conspire against [th...
Sudanese strategic expert Major-General Younis Mahmoud said that there is evidence in the Quran that "these Jews, these Zionists, never adhere to treaties" and that "the handiwork of the Jews and the Zionists" can be seen in today's problems. He was responding to comments made by...
Sudanese cleric Sheikh Muhammad Hassan Tanoun delivered a Friday sermon in which he said that "ever since [the Jews] existed on the face of the Earth, they have been the head of the serpent" and that "all things evil and all the tragedies on Earth are caused by their schemes, the...
In a TV interview, Somali author Abdisaid Abdi Ismail said that "you cannot overcome terrorism without abolishing the notion of apostasy." Although there are "dozens, if not hundreds," of Quranic verses about freedom of belief, "not a single verse says that the punishment for apo...
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