On March 11, 2024, Arash Azizi, a senior lecturer at Clemson University, penned an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that when the 84-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dies, Iran s regime will moderate. "A closer look at the cast of characters
A new ban on foreign-appointed imams in France is aimed at combating Islamist separatism, but the policy risks making matters worse by handing future decisions about hiring imams over to local groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The French
A German government plan to ease citizenship requirements for millions of Turkish immigrants, German lawmakers are warning, could lead to the creation of Germany s first national Islamist party. Such a party, they say, would be controlled by Turkish
This past summer, communist China, which is engaged in a campaign of cultural genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in the country s Xinjiang region, used the controversy over Qur an burnings in Scandinavia to fuel Islamist hostility against the West.
We were recently introduced to the Arabic term ribat. Historically, it referred to those areas where invading Muslims, having been halted or pushed back, maintained a presence and created a base whence they continued waging jihad on the non-Muslim