As the Israeli assault on Gaza passes the 13-month mark, and as Hezbollah reels under the massive Israeli bombing campaign on its leaders and operational centers in Lebanon, it has become clear that ...

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Wahhabi Islam is more correctly called Salafism. Safa al Ahmad finds that, post the Arab uprisings, the Salafis are split between jihadists, democrats and apolitical pietists. Show more Wahhabism ...

The country is ruled by the Al Saud royal family along with a coalition of ultraconservative Wahhabi religious elites. Together, they enforce Islamic law and define themselves as an Arab Islamic ...

The diversity of Islamic schools of thought should not be viewed as a threat but rather celebrated to showcase Islam as a ...

The Wahhabi brand of Islam attracted the young and it also had financial backing from abroad," said Mazook Ahamed Lebbe, an official from the Federation of Mosques in the eastern town of Kattankudy.

Five women have been killed in a shooting at a church in Russia's volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others, including a police officer and a national guardsman, were injured, Russian officials said.

Recent surveys suggest that there has been a rise in the level of extremism among Muslims in Malaysia. While the majority is far from being enamoured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the ...

By Najmuddin Ahmad Farooqi In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, developing nations face the challenge of ...

As the oil runs dry (displaced by shale), Saudi Arabia’s population will be increasingly ripe for manipulation by geriatric Wahhabi clerics. Such men believe that women are at best a necessary ...

Radicalism and intolerance are commonly seen in NU circles as being disseminated by transnational movements such as Hizbut Tahrir and Salafi-Wahhabi groups. Though not terrorist groups, they do teach ...