Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the ...
Read More »Wahhabism in contrast to what the Holy Quran teaches: Ayatollah Sobhani
Ayatollah Ja’far Sobhani has given a lecture on Wahhabism as part of a series of lectures entitled “Theology and Islamic Thought” that he has been delivering in the holy city of Mashhad. Ayatollah Sobhani explained that the belief system of Wahhabism is an anathema to true Islam. Pointing to the ...
Read More »“Muslim Scholars Must Strive to Extinguish the Fires of Sedition & Strife”
Rasa News Agency reports – Ayatollah Hoseyn Nouri-Hamadani has met with members, scholars and political figures and representatives from North Khorasan province in memory of the late Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad-Hasan Agha-Najafi-Qouchani in the holy city of Mashhad. He spoke about the important role scholars and clerics have in society, and ...
Read More »‘Is ISIL really ‘Sunni’? Not at all’
The Western media describes ISIL – the ultra-extremist terrorists destabilizing Iraq and Syria – as “Sunni militants.” Headlines read: “Sunni Islamist Militants Seize Mosul.” “Sunni militants capture northern Iraqi town.” “Iraq Army Tries to Roll Back Sunni Militants’ Advance.” The corporate media casts the fighting in Iraq as a Sunni ...
Read More »Takfiri groups pose threat to all Muslims: Ayatollah Khamenei
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that Takfiri groups pose a threat to all Muslims including Shias and Sunnis. “If Takfiri groups are not confronted, they will inflict more damage and blows on the Muslim world,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ...
Read More »UN: Al-Qaeda leadership shifting to younger generation
The leadership of some al-Qaeda affiliates is witnessing a generational shift from older men to men in their 30s and 40s, a UN report says. According to BBC, the study also found some cells were now recruiting members as young as 12. It warned of new international networks emerging from ...
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