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Based on territorial gains in Syria and Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), the recent declaration of an Islamic State (Khilafah) has laid to waste President Obama’s claim that the U.S. (having withdrawn military forces from Iraq in 2011) left behind “a sovereign, stable and self-reliant ...

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that religious organizations are largely exempt from anti-discrimination lawsin their hiring and firing decisions. For those who are thinking of getting into the God business, which religion offers its clergy the best pay? Judaism. The American Jewish newspaper Forward conducted a survey in 2010 ...

“Muslim feminists” have made liberalism a universal premise for their thinking whilst selectively using Shariah principles to justify unIslamic ideas, writes Ali Harfouch. If there is one thing we can learn from the ways in which colonial-relations manifest themselves it is the process of colonisation and subversion is not necessarily a ...

One has only to read William Simpson’s biography of Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz to understand why the Saudi King, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, has accepted his resignation as head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services, writes Abdelbari Atwan. William Simpson is a personal friend of Prince Bandar and studied with him ...

The making of the Happy British Muslims video is not as worrying as some are making it out to be. But what is extremely worrying is lack of depth demonstrated by a large part of the Islamic community’s reaction to the video, the extent of which is deeply disturbing, writes João ...