Islamic research

Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom have come together to denounce the Islamic militant group ISIS in a video posted by a group called Imams Online, reports the BBC. A statement on the Imams Online website says, “Senior British imams have come together to emphasize the importance of unity in the UK and to decree ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has dismissed Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as tension continues between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). On Friday, the Iraqi premier appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani as a replacement for Zebari. The development came after Zebari, along with other Kurdish ...

The United States moved Thursday to blacklist a group of companies it claimed covertly helped Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement acquire components for surveillance drones. The US Treasury placed sanctions on Beirut-based Stars Group Holding, which it said purchased electronics and other technology via offices in China and Dubai to support ...

A 28-year-old man from London has won an undisclosed sum from two police forces for being detained unlawfully under terror laws after trying to make a complaint on a train. The case has called into question how anti-terror legislation is being used while the government forces through emergency surveillance legislation ...

“Airlines have been ordered by Baghdad to stop cargo flights into the Kurdistan Region”, Kurdish airport officials said, as Baghdad denied any such decision. The directors of Kurdistan’s two main airports, in the capital Erbil and the second-largest city Sulaimani, said there had been no official word from Baghdad, but ...

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says no country can afford to launch a military attack on the country. In a meeting with senior Iranian officials on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that Israel’s military threats against Iran are constantly repeated but the United States prevents Tel ...

A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations. Tareq Abu Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair, a ...

The following comment was posted on an online chat forum for Muslim syesterday inviting responses: Some of the other members of the forum became suspicious by the strange comment and decided to check the new member’s ISP address:   More up-to-date checks of the ISP address by other members of the forum ...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, led by influential Sunni cleric Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, released a statement on Friday concerning the recent declaration of a “caliphate” by the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIS). The union said that the caliphate declaration is “null and void” and “lacks any realistic ...

Ronaldo said: “I do not exchange my shirt with Assassins” This was a phrase used by the Portuguese star Cristiano at a meeting after a friendly playoff between Israel and Portugal before the World Cup. After the match, an Israeli player removing his shirt offered it to Ronaldo, who refused because he ...