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ISIS supporters celebrate online; Obama condemns attack
By RNS staff — July 14, 2016
CAIRO -- Supporters of Islamic State celebrated on social media an attack in France by a truck that ran into crowds watching a fireworks display on the Bastille Day national holiday, killing at least 73 people and injuring 100.
Report: Islamic State lost quarter of its Iraq, Syria territory in 18 months
By RNS staff — July 10, 2016
BEIRUT (Reuters) The territory controlled by ISIS shrank from 35,000 square miles in January 2015, six months after it declared a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, to 26,370 square miles, the research firm said.
Anglican leader in Iraq suspended in ISIS funding inquiry
By Timothy C. Morgan — June 23, 2016
(RNS) “We never gave the bad guys one penny,” the Rev. Andrew White, the acclaimed "Vicar of Baghdad," said in denying charges that money used to redeem sex slaves ended up in the hands of the Islamic State group.
Trump suggests ‘profiling’ Muslims
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 19, 2016
Donald Trump, who has proposed a moratorium on Muslim immigration into the United States and possible surveillance of mosques, is now talking about "profiling" Muslims as a response to terrorism.
Hackers add rainbows, gay pride slogans to ISIS accounts
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 18, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — The Anonymous hacker collective has launched a campaign to add rainbow flags and gay pride slogans to Islamic State Twitter accounts in response to the Orlando gay dance club attack.
Diplomacy can undermine extremism
By guest — June 15, 2016
(RNS) The challenge of Islamist extremism is real and must be taken seriously. But I have also never been more optimistic about the Western Balkans and its future.
Omar Mateen committed a hate crime. It’s unclear if he was an Islamist, too
By guest — June 13, 2016
(RNS) After Sunday's violent incident, many have again reverted to the familiar but false dichotomy regarding Muslims in America: that because a gunman is Muslim, he must be a radical, bent on destroying America.
For ISIS, a competing vision of Ramadan as a month of conquest and jihad
By Ayman S. Ibrahim — May 26, 2016
(RNS) ISIS discourages the notion that only piety, prayer, and worship are important during Ramadan, insisting that armed jihad is a sacred duty during that holy month.
The ‘us vs. them’ ideology of radical Salafis
By Laleh Bakhtiar — May 24, 2016
(RNS) It lets ISIS militants sleep peacefully at night.
Muslim student wrongly identified as ‘Isis’ in yearbook
By guest — May 9, 2016
A California student was embarrassed and distressed after a picture of her wearing an Islamic headscarf, or hijab, appeared in her high school yearbook with the false name "Isis Phillips."
Catholic priest abducted in Yemen reportedly alive, could be released
By David Gibson — May 4, 2016
ROME (RNS) Initial rumors fueled fears that the Rev. Tom Uzhunnalil had been crucified by ISIS-affiliated militants.
Will we stand with persecuted Christians? (COMMENTARY)
By Tony Perkins — April 15, 2016
(RNS) We need to consider something similar to the 1980s protests for the freedom of Soviet Jews, for Christians and other religious minorities that are now being persecuted around the world.
The true Islamic response to the Brussels attacks (COMMENTARY)
By Salaam Bhatti — March 24, 2016
(RNS) Muslims must unite and reject the ideologies of ultraconservative schools of thought that inspire some to become extremists.
Brussels attacks: How radicalization happens
By The Conversation — March 23, 2016
The bombings once again call attention to a serious crisis: the radicalization of citizens outside the Middle East by extremist groups.
French woman who escaped ISIS lives to tell about its horrors
By Tom Heneghan — March 22, 2016
PARIS (RNS) The Cameroon native who grew up in France felt an emptiness she hoped Islam would fill.
