United States and United Kingdom Host 16th International Strategic Trade Controls and Border Security Conference Edinburgh.. ..…

the real strength of Islamic State lies in its organized and decentralized Baathist command structure and weaponry provided to Syrian militants by Western powers and Gulf states during Syria's proxy war.. ..…

Before beginning the siege of Lisbon, Archbishop Joao of Braga invited the Muslims to surrender, since they had “unjustly held our cities and lands already for 358 years,” and “to return to the homeland of the Moors whence you came, leaving to us what is ours.”[5]  Fifty years earlier and thousands..…

Saint worship is even more unique because it is only found in North Africa, and is actually the unique contribution of both Amazigh and Jewish tribes to the religion of Islam in Northern Morocco as Judaism brought the practice and many of the most worshipped saints were Amazigh..…

From macrocosmic, the consequences of the historic jihad are even more profound For almost thousand years, from Moorish landing Spain to Turkish of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam, Bernard Lewis elaborates. All and the easternmost provinces of Islamic realm had been taken from..…

While quick to indict America as guilty of “cultural genocide,” Essa was silent on the 1400 years of actual genocides, also known as jihads, in which Muslims wiped out Jewish tribes on the Arabian Peninsula, and slaughtered millions of Christians throughout the Middle East, North Africa..…

While quick to indict America as guilty of 'cultural genocide,' Essa was silent on the 1400 years of actual genocides, also known as jihads, in which Muslims wiped out Jewish tribes on the Arabian Peninsula, and slaughtered millions of Christians throughout the Middle East, North..…

But Arabs are not paying for Europe's sins, they have plenty of their own to pay for particularly the expulsion of 850,000 pauperized, ripped off, traumatized Jews from all over Middle East and North Africa  Ancient Jewish communities predating Islam are gone, cleansed of us Jews..…

In addition to Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam, the Orthodox and Lutheran churches are the only other religious denominations tolerated by the state. Unlike many other countries in North Africa, Islam is not the state religion in Eritrea. ..…

In recent months, Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has become prominent and sometimes controversial public proxy for his father, eliciting comparisons to Donald Trump Jr... ..…

The first to suffer was Syria and to Africans and Europeans, writes Mark Curtis  ... ..…

The conflict, in which Nato worked Islamist forces on the ground to remove Gaddafi, produced ungoverned space Libya and awash with weapons, ideal for terrorist groups to thrive.. ..…

Before beginning the siege of Lisbon, Archbishop Joao of Braga invited the Muslims to surrender, since they had “unjustly held our cities and lands already for 358 years,” and “to return to the homeland of the Moors whence you came, leaving to us what is ours.”[5]  Fifty years earlier and thousands..…

According to North Atlantic Treaty Organization's first secretary, British Lord Hastings Ismay, nato was formed to keep Soviet Union out, Americans in, and Germans down.. ..…

Jewish orphans were frequently removed from the community and forcibly converted to Islam. In North Africa, Jewish communities had to live in a ghetto (mellah). ..…

Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Zahia Smail Salhi. ... Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. ..…

By priests continue to unfold across the globe, Concannon, string of sex abuse scandals have rocked Christian communities recently In Roman Catholic Church, revelations related to sex abuse. ..…

The long-lasting Islamic slave trade across the Sahara was eventually matched by the Transatlantic trade from Africa into North America. Western distaste for Islam was for the most part expressed in theological terms, just as Muslim distaste for Christianity seemed a mirror image of..…

Iraqi Baghdad on October 2 waves flag showing Shiite Muslim Arabic with the logo of Iraqi Hezbollah during demonstration against state corruption, failing public services, and unemployment.. ..…

From macrocosmic, the consequences of the historic jihad are even more profound For almost thousand years, from Moorish landing Spain to Turkish of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam, Bernard Lewis elaborates. North Africa, Egypt, Syria, even Persian-ruled Iraq,..…

On Saturday, January 26, that Taliban officials said the US negotiators agreed on pact setting out the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan within 18 months, ending United States longest war.. ..…

Accordingly, one of the significant outcomes of Amazigh activism was the designation of Amazigh Tamazight as in both Algerian and Moroccan constitutions. ..…

Posted under, Africa, Arab States, Cambodia, communism, Iran, Islam, Labor, North Korea, Pakistan, Slavery by Jillian Becker on Monday, January 21, 2019. ..…

During this perennial jihad that began in the seventh century, almost three-quarters of Christendom’s original territory—including all of North Africa, Egypt, Greater Syria, and Anatolia—was permanently swallowed up by Islam. . ... After writing, “For almost a thousand..…

These rounds of ethnic cleansing preceded most of the wars and revolutions that would wrack Middle East and North Africa, and preceded the rise of Islam that would target still other religious and ethnic minorities in the region.. ..…

Most of the countries where Islam, or a sect of Islam, is the state religion are in the Middle East and North Africa region (59%), including Saudi Arabia and all of its neighbors. Most of the remaining countries where Islam is the official faith are in the..…

Islam is the most common government-endorsed faith, with 27 countries (including most in the Middle East-North Africa region) officially enshrining Islam as their state religion. ... Most of the countries where Islam is the official religion (16 of 27, or 59%) are..…

Topics Muslims and Islam, Jews and Judaism, Religion and Society, Religious Beliefs and Practices, Middle East and North Africa. ..…

Many of these countries, such as Nigeria and Ethiopia, are situated between the predominantly Muslim Maghreb of North Africa and the more solidly Christian countries in the southern part of the continent. Islam also is the second-largest religion in India, after Hinduism. . ..…

By contrast, governments in many of the countries surveyed in South Asia and the Middle East-North Africa region have officially embraced Islam. . ... In the Middle East-North Africa region, medians of more than half favor strict criminal penalties (57%) and the..…

Muslims in Middle East and North Africa tend to be most keenly aware of the distinction between the main branches of Islam, Sunni and Shia.2 In most countries surveyed in the region, at least 40% of Sunnis do not accept Shias as fellow Muslims. ..…

One of the protestors waving Egyptian Flag during Tahrir Square, Cairo.. ..…

The Bible identifies a Middle Eastern power, a “king of the south,” that gains significant influence over the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. Iranian-led radical Islam is that power, and it will use its clout to terrorize other nations in the region and beyond. ..…

One of the issues I was able and proud to raise during my time in government was the ethnic cleansing of almost a million Jews from the Middle East and North Africa — communities massively predating Islam and the Arab conquest of the region in the seventh century — and the..…

Global Counter-terrorism Strategy and Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism both acknowledge that poverty and unemployment make the spread of violent easier. ..…

In his written testimony prepared for Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday, senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank argues that AQAP is not solely branch of al- Qaeda, except branch of the greater jihadist group, noting that the group houses some senior members with..…

Islam used the sword to conquer the Middle and Near East, north Africa and Spain in a single century, . . And this is today’s crucial distinction: Islam is not simply a religion of 1.6 billion people; it is also a political ideology for ruling nations and, one day, the..…

Islamic State is in the process of installing a little emirate in East African of Somalia, where the rule of law is non-existent and the government holds very little sway.. ..…

Now, American lives and dollars attempting to stop the group from forming in Middle East.. ..…

Editor's note Dalibor Rohac is policy analyst at Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at Cato Institute. ..…

Former Secretary of State and presumptive 2016 Democratic Hillary Clinton has been under fire from Republicans recent days for failing to designate Boko Haram, the group for the kidnapping of some 200 Nigerian school girls, as terrorists after the group attacked United Nations Abuja in 2011. .. ..…

Michael Nazir-Ali, former bishop of Rochester and director of Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. ..…

The latest victims of the revolution for democracy were Egyptians, who suffered sort of gang rape at the hands of what increasingly appear to be American and Zionist interests.. ..…

After five centuries when the Middle East and North Africa had been mostly Christian, Islam conquered the whole region in the 7th and 8th centuries. ..…