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Egypt's Main Islamic Institutions Condemn ISIS Fatwas
January 07, 2015
Egypt's preeminent institutions of Islamic learning, the renowned Al-Azhar and Dar al-Iftaa, issued a series of reports that condemn the theological declarations of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (“ISIL/S”) as violent-extremist deviations and misinterpretations of Islamic jurisprudence.
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Islamist Extremists Use Book Burning to Erase Mideast's Religious Minorities
January 07, 2015
In tandem with their violent campaign of religious cleansing against the Mideast's religious minorities, the extremist Islamic State has begun a policy of burning all books that identify Christians and Yazidis as indigenous to Iraq and, therefore, to erase any presence of those non-Muslim religious communities in Iraq.
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OIC Names Jerusalem as Capital of Islamic Tourism for 2015
January 07, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) has selected Jerusalem as the "capital of Islamic tourism" for 2015, and OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani announced that the organization will coordinate a strategic plan with member-state tourism agencies, in order to boost the number of Muslim pilgrims to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
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Global Islamism Relies on Violence and Rage Against Modernity and the West
January 07, 2015
The world's diverse forms of Islamism share a unifying logic and strategy, namely hostility against the West as the purveyor of modernity understood as antithetical to the interests of global Muslim community and a willingness to use political violence to combat modernity and the West.
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OIC Chief to Make Statement Visit to Jerusalem
January 07, 2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), the global, multilateral group composed of 57 Muslim-majority member-states, has announced his upcoming visit to East Jerusalem with a call to the world's Muslims to visit the Al-Aqsa mosque there.
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