Extremism

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh will not be delivering this year’s Hajj sermon, Saudi media have announced. AP cited the Al-Riyadh newspaper as saying on Saturday that Al Sheikh will not be delivering this year’s speech, without explaining why. It will be the first time in more …

Saudi clerics have reacted angrily to recent remarks by Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al–Tayeb, who excluded Salafists from Sunnis during a religious conference in Chechnya, Russia. During a conference in Grozny, Chechnya, Sheikh Tayeb said that Salafists were not Sunnists, while he was defining what is meant by Sunnism. The …

A recent series of leaked Islamic State documents have revealed that most of ISIS’ recruits had a rudimentary knowledge of Islamic law...

Following the shooting of a New York City mosque leader and an associate, people are offering to accompany Muslims to and from the mosque ...

To combat Islamophobia, first and foremost, we must teach Muslims to truly represent Islam...

British women wearing Hijab are facing work discrimination as employers prefer hiring non-veil-wearing employees...

A group of religious leaders have released a statement in defense of the religious freedom of private colleges and universities in California...

Derived from the word kafir, meaning infidel, the Arabic word could refer to any ideology that is based on declaring the dissent apostate...

Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was wrong to identify Islam with violence and that social injustice and idolatry of money were among the prime causes of terrorism...

Al-Azhar says the decision to issue identical government-written scripts of Friday sermons would abolish religious discourse and narrow the intellect of preachers...