ISIS
Unity is the best weapon against ISIS (COMMENTARY)
By Salam Al-Marayati — November 19, 2015
(RNS) The challenge to Americans is to recognize that Muslims are decisively on their side in the fight against extremism. The challenge to Muslims is to engage fully with the rest of the nation in identifying the safest and wisest paths forward.
Muslims also killed in Islamic State attack on ‘Crusader France’
By Reuters — November 19, 2015
Judging from published lists of the 129 dead, about 6 percent have been identified by family and friends as Muslim by religion or by ethnic ties to majority-Muslim countries.
Should refugees be vetted on the basis of religion?
By Rosie Scammell — November 18, 2015
ROME (RNS) The slaughter in Paris of 129 people and injuring of hundreds has intensified the debate in Europe about whether Syrian refugees pose a threat. The debate has spilled across the Atlantic.
Save persecuted religious minorities first (COMMENTARY)
By James S. Robbins — November 18, 2015
It’s not un-American to save Assyrian Christians, Yazidis and others from genocide at the hands of the Islamic State group.
ISIS, ISIL, Daesh — explaining the many names for terrorists
By Lauren Markoe — November 17, 2015
(RNS) The terrorist organization murdering people across the Middle East and now Europe is known by several names and acronyms. What do they mean, and why use one over another?
Obama denounces religious test for refugees: ‘That’s not who we are’
By Kimberly Winston — November 16, 2015
(RNS) The president strongly restated his -- and his predecessor's -- belief that a war against ISIS is not a war against Islam.
4 ways ISIS grounds its actions in religion, and why it should matter (COMMENTARY)
By Ayman S. Ibrahim — November 16, 2015
(RNS) One cannot erase the effects of such horrible attacks executed under the banner of religion. To claim that all Muslims are terrorists is far from correct, but to deny or underestimate the power of some Islamic texts and interpretations is not prudent, either.
Does religion give rise to violence — or the other way around? (COMMENTARY)
By James Bernard Murphy — November 15, 2015
(RNS) Mass killings by a group that calls itself the Islamic State have triggered a heated debate about militant Islam and our response. Rene Girard’s theories deserve wider appreciation.
At a castle in Austria, villagers and refugees celebrate Eid al-Adha
By Reuters — September 25, 2015
(Reuters) An ancient castle in an Austrian village somewhere between Vienna and Hungary is not where you might expect to see an Islamic celebration.
4 reasons Hillary Clinton should apologize for her inflammatory abortion rhetoric (COMMENTARY)
By Trevin Wax — August 31, 2015
(RNS) Hillary Clinton shouldn’t label an opposing position as “extreme” just because she doesn’t agree with it.
East-West Travelblog: Radicalization is not a ‘Muslim problem’
By Kimberly Winston — August 28, 2015
“The biggest threat in the U.S. from militant individuals is not Muslim, it is Christians.”
In Britain, a glut of anti-terrorism campaigns draws fans, detractors
By Trevor Grundy — August 14, 2015
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Quilliam Foundation's #NotAnotherBrother video on YouTube joins an increasingly crowded market of online counter-extremism campaigns in Britain. Is it #JustAnotherVideo?
Mississippi newlyweds arrested, accused of planning to join ISIS
By Reuters — August 12, 2015
OXFORD, Miss. (Reuters) A Mississippi couple, accused of seeking to join the militant Islamic State group on a planned honeymoon trip, remained in custody on Tuesday after being denied bond in federal court.
Islamic State abducts dozens of Christian families at Syrian churches and checkpoints
By Reuters — August 7, 2015
Human rights observers say 45 women and 19 children, including 11 families were taken Thursday. They are among hundreds of residents, Muslims and Christians, whose families have lost touch with them since the militants captured the area.
British Muslims react to Cameron’s call to thwart ISIS among the youth
By Trevor Grundy — June 19, 2015
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) A leading British Muslim on Friday rejected Prime Minister David Cameron's demand that the community do more to thwart the appeal of the Islamic State group's ideology among young Muslims.
