| Current affairs | |
| 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Pakistan: In Search of A Hazare | |
By Shahzad Chaudhry August 23, 2011 I have often urged us, as a nation, to look beyond the distortions in our ideological foundations and carve a newer identity, more in line with the needs of the 21st century. Also, that it is okay for a nation to be seen evolving with time, maturing both its moorings as well as its promise. Ideological anchoring need not be based on religion alone. Each era must of essence have newer ideals and aspirations for a nation. The world has moved on from deep ideological associations in the political or the economic sense and has gradually evolved towards a more pragmatic, global cosmopolitan culture. There is now a wider definition of an ‘international’ character in all things — political, economic, social, cuisine and even music. Every nation dons both an international and a national garb; that is how it remains entwined into a global culture. This is what makes each relevant to others. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamCurrentAffairs_1.aspx?ArticleID=5321 |
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Pakistan: In Search of A Hazare
Feminism, Colonialism and Islamophobia: Treacherous Sympathy with Muslim Women, 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com
| Islam, Women and Feminism | |
| 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Feminism, Colonialism and Islamophobia: Treacherous Sympathy with Muslim Women | |
By Leila Ahmed Aug 23, 2011 Ever since the attacks of 9/11, feminists in the West have increasingly used the theme of the oppression of women in Islam as justification for war and domination. This strategy of using this rhetoric of “saving the women” in the name of “civilization” is an old ploy used many times in the past by Western imperialists, writes Leila Ahmed. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamWomenAndFeminism_1.aspx?ArticleID=5319 |
| Islam and the West | |
| 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Growth of Islamistan in Europe means No-Go Zones for Non-Muslims | |
By Soeren Kern August 23rd 2011 Islamic extremists are stepping up the creation of "no-go" areas in European cities that are off-limits to non-Muslims. Many of the "no-go" zones function as microstates governed by Islamic Shariah law. Host-country authorities effectively have lost control in these areas and in many instances are unable to provide even basic public aid such as police, fire fighting and ambulance services. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5320 |
| Islam and the West | |
| 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Libya: End is Welcome, but Doesn't Justify the Means | |
By Simon Jenkins We may all applaud Qadhafi’s downfall, but it remains the case that Britain's intervention in Libya was wrong. The downfall of a dictator is always welcome. Especially welcome is the downfall of Qadhafi of Libya. He was not the worst of his genre, but for 42 years was the beneficiary of the crassest western intervention, veering between ineffective sanctions and ostracism and Tony Blair's cringing, oil-drenched “friendship.” More welcome still would have been his downfall clearly at the hands of his own people, not courtesy of western armies. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5317 |
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
| Urdu Section | |
| 20 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Pakistan's Urdu media and the bigotry and fanaticism in the society | |
By Dr.Ghazala Afaque Quazi 14 Aug. 2011 Who is responsible for the bias and narrow-mindedness in the society? If they talk of beheading their opponents on petty issues, who has given them the training? The limitation of the media that they can raise only a few issues can be understood but at least they can refrain from making provocative statements for cheap popularity and adopt a soft stand. They should set a standard of their newspapers that instead of provoking the sentiments of anger and grief, they express their opinions with seriousness. Source: Urdu Daily, Hamara Akhbar, Karachi URL: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamUrduSection_1.aspx?ArticleID=5289 |
| Islam and the Media | |
| 26 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Well Said Nawaz Sharif, well done SAFMA | |
By Dr Mohammad Taqi The security establishment frets that a strong politician from Punjab, who always had the wherewithal to cut them down to size, has been consistently expressing his will to do so too “Your Excellency doesn’t understand. A man is a Punjabi or Bengali before he is a Hindu or a Muslim. They share a common history, language, culture and economy. You must not divide them. You will cause endless bloodshed and trouble” — Quaid-e-Azam to Lord Mountbatten. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimMedia_1.aspx?ArticleID=5329 |
| Current affairs | |
| 27 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| India-Bangladesh Relations: Much-awaited Visit | |
By Akmal Hussain The foreign policy of Bangladesh is very much characterised by its focus on the biggest neighbour India not only due to geographic location but also because of history, economic compulsions and security imperatives. But during the last four decades Bangladesh-India relations have progressed along a zigzag line. Bangladesh has sometimes come closer to India or maintained a distance, depending on the political preferences of the governing regimes. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamCurrentAffairs_1.aspx?ArticleID=5338 |
| Radical Islamism & Jihad | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Islamist Terrorism Hurts the Palestinian Cause: Nabil Shaath | |
By New Age Islam News Bureau
New Delhi: Urging Muslims to turn to terrorism to avenge the oppression of Palestinians helps only in undermining the cause of Palestinian statehood, senior Palestinian Authority (PA) member Nabil Shaath says. “Terrorism is opposite to the aspirations of a liberation struggle. No one benefits from it. Let’s separate terrorism from the struggle to achieve liberation,” Shaath, a former acting prime minister of Palestine, said at a seminar in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on Tuesday. He said he was in the US after the 9/11 attacks. “I felt we will pay a heavy price for (Al Qaeda leader Osama) bin Laden’s actions. And we did.” http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamRadicalIslamismAndJihad_1.aspx?ArticleID=5309 |
| Current affairs | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Why Are the Real Victims of India's Corrupt System Not Enthusiastic About Anna’s Movement? | |
By Bhanwar Megwanshi (Translated from Hindi by Yoginder Sikand, NewAgeIslam.com) Anna Hazare’s ‘anti-corruption’ has received considerable support across the country. The ‘mainstream’ media is awash with stories about Anna and his fast. It is as if there is nothing else happening in India that is worth reporting about. But, at the same time as the media is busy projecting Anna and his movement, a vast section of India’s population—the country’s Dalits, Adivasis and religious minorities, who are at the bottom of India’s social pyramid and who suffer the most at the hands of the corrupt system that Anna and his supporters are supposedly denouncing—have maintained a studied distance from this movement. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamCurrentAffairs_1.aspx?ArticleID=5314 |
| Islam and Pluralism | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| RELIGION, RADICALISM AND PEACE | |
By Asghar Ali Engineer What happened the other day in Norway has not only shocked the world but also raised some important question. Does religion stand for peace or for murder? One thing is sure after 9/11 only Islam was being blamed for violence, war and jihad. Now it is obvious that such maniacs who go on killing spree are found in all religious traditions and even in highly developed nations. It is not only ‘backward Arabs’ or ‘fanatical Islamists’ who kill but even Christians from highly developed and democratic nations who kill innocent people. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndPluralism_1.aspx?ArticleID=5310 |
| Islam and the West | |
| 22 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| European intellectuals should stop tolerating inflammatory political rhetoric like the conspiracy theory of Eurabia | |
20 Aug 2011 In the wake of the terrorism and mass murder in Norway on 22/7 many people have struggled to understand what the incident means. The terrorist justified his acts with a hatred of Islam and condemnation of the Norwegian government for accommodating Muslims. The attacks targeted the very idea which lies at the core of our country’s multicultural society. In his 1,500 page manifesto, Anders Breivik expresses his desire for “genuine Europeans” to defeat multicultural society and to “cleanse” the continent of Muslims. He emphasises the myth of Eurabia – the conspiracy theory of a Muslim takeover of Europe. Few in Norway support these thoughts and Breivik’s ideas are, to a large extent, cut-and-paste adaptations of ideas from right-wing extremists in other parts of Europe. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5299 |
By Bushra Ishaq| Islam and the West | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Teaching Islam in German Schools: Religion Must Not Be Regarded as an Integration Problem | |
By Nimet Seker If it wants to be authentic and relevant to practice, religious education along denominational lines should not become an instrument of integration and should take the expectations of Muslims seriously. Islamic education in mosques is often based on learning by heart and reflection on ethical and spiritual matters are often not given sufficient attention. The introduction of Islamic education is already a done deal in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Starting next year, Islamic education will be part of the regular curriculum. Currently, some 700,000 children from Muslim families go to school in Germany – until now they have not had access to Islamic education. In recent years, the state has put considerable efforts into introducing Islamic education and has given financial support to the creation of professorships for Islamic Studies at German schools of theology. This is where the future teachers of Islamic education and imams will be trained. Full text here: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5311 |
| Islam and the Media | |
| 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| The Truth about the Situation in Libya: Cutting through Government Propaganda and Media Lies | |
By Brian Becker Libya is a small country of just over 6 million people but it possesses the largest oil reserves in all of Africa. The oil produced there is especially coveted because of its particularly high quality. The Air Force of the United States along with Britain and France has carried out 7,459 bombing attacks since March 19. Britain, France and the United States sent special operation ground forces and commando units to direct the military operations of the so-called rebel fighters – it is a NATO- led army in the field. The troops may be disaffected Libyans but the operation is under the control and direction of NATO commanders and western commando units who serve as “advisors.” Their new weapons and billions in funds come from the U.S. and other NATO powers that froze and seized Libya’s assets in Western banks. Their only military successes outside of Benghazi, in the far east of the country, have been exclusively based on the coordinated air and ground operations of the imperialist NATO military forces. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimMedia_1.aspx?ArticleID=5322 |
| Islam and the Media | |
| 26 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Kudos and Condemnation for SAFMA | |
By Kamran Shafi WHAT else this week but loud applause for Nawaz Sharif for so courageously advocating peace with India at a recently held seminar ‘Building bridges in the subcontinent’ in Lahore? And utter condemnation for a private TV channel’s vitriolic host and her hate-filled red-capped guest who is known to be a propagandist of the Deep State, for their shrill and nasty attacks upon the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) that arranged the seminar, generally, and Mr Sharif particularly, merely because he held out the hand of friendship to India? http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimMedia_1.aspx?ArticleID=5327 |
| Islam and Politics | |
| 26 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Inside Syria's Failed Rebellion | |
By Praveen Swami President Bashar al-Assad's government has imposed order — but is yet to slay the three-headed dragon which threatens its survival. Thick black lines had been scored over the graffiti under the cherubic image of President Bashar al-Assad that guards the road into Hama{minute}a. The military's clean-up squad had been less than diligent though: the word kalib, dog, survived the paint-brush censorship, and the soldiers had forgotten to have the President's gouged-out eyes repainted. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndPolitics_1.aspx?ArticleID=5325 Inside the city, the rebels had left behind evidence no amount of paint could obscure: the burned-down military officers' mess on the Ard al-Khadra street, which mobs stormed in the hope of seizing weapons; the gutted office block which housed the justice department; the charred walls of the al-Hadr police station, pockmarked with machine-gun fire, where 17 police officers were lynched, before their mutilated bodies were thrown into a nearby canal. |
| Islam and the Media | |
| 23 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Pakistan’s surreal Urdu media — II | |
By Aakar Patel May 26, 2011
More than newspapers, news television knows the popular mind. This is because it responds to daily ratings and can calibrate pitch and tone accordingly. What appears on their television should worry secular Pakistanis. In what other nation would Zaid Hamid be an analyst?
Let’s have a look at the roster of Pakistan’s other television stars.
Kamran Khan is first-rate, easily the best TV journalist in Pakistan. He got nothing from US Ambassador Cameron Munter after Osama’s killing, but not for want of trying. He’s an excellent questioner and a good listener. His interview with Ishrat Husain went farther than anything before it in explaining Pakistan’s economic condition. Rahimullah Yusufzai appears on many shows but only Khan is able to extract value from the old reporter’s experience. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimMedia_1.aspx?ArticleID=5303 |
| The War within Islam | |
| 23 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| PTV’s ‘Jihadi Plays’ Help Army to Maintain Control over Society | |
Farooq Sulehria in an interview with Ayesha Siddiqa 19 Aug 2010
Lollywood is no different from the rest of the society. There has been an increasing radicalization of the society which is reflected in the cinema as well. Lollywood is more influenced because of the socioeconomic class. The lower-middle and middle classes reflect a bias for the Islamiscts. Ayesha Siddiqa is an independent social scientist with expertise in civil-military relations and political-economy. She has a doctorate in War Studies from King's College, London. She has authored two books on the military and Pakistani politics. Her book ‘Military Inc.’ was banned under the Musharraf dictatorship. She was the first Pakistan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Ford Fellow. These days she is writing a regular column for the Express Tribune. In an interview with Viewpoint, she discusses Jihadification of Pakistan Television and Lollywood. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamWarWithinIslam_1.aspx?ArticleID=5306 |
| Islamic Culture | |
| 23 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Ramadan Fast for Swami Agnivesh, Lord Meghnad Desai | |
By Saeed Naqvi 19 Aug 2010
A youth and children ride a scooter near the Jama Masjid during Iftar on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in New Delhi last week. It was an extraordinary group of five that turned up at Delhi's Jama Masjid at 3.30 a.m. last week for saheri, or the last meal before the day's fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Saheri derives from saher, which means dawn. Only those in the vicinity of mosques make it a congregational affair. And when the mosque happens to be one of the world's great monuments, Jama Masjid, people sometimes travel long distances to participate in this remarkable confluence of faith and aesthetics. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamicCulture_1.aspx?ArticleID=5308 |
| Islam and Spiritualism | |
| 23 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| How Repentance pays Off: The Quranic Concept of Taubah is a Highly Personal Act | |
By Khwaja Mohammad Zubair 10 August 2011 Indeed, it is more than an act. It reflects a moment of decision when one makes up one’s mind to give up a course of action and simultaneously adopt another course. Taubah is not merely the negation of the past; it is essentially a contract with the future. Taubah is personal in that no one else needs to know about it. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndSpiritualism_1.aspx?ArticleID=5307 |
| Islam and Tolerance | |
| 14 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Quran does not Preach Terrorism | |
By Mufti Md Zahid Qamarul Qasmi (Translated from Urdu By New Age Islam Edit DesK) The most painful aspect of the age in which the Holy Quran was revealed was lawlessness, chaos and bloodshed. The extent of lawlessness can be gauged by the fact that no legal government existed in the Arab peninsula. The governments that existed around Arab believed in ethnic superiority and inferiority and it is impossible for the establishment of justice in a human society that is based on superiority and inferiority by birth. The revelation of the last book of God, the holy Quran began in such an atmosphere. The first verse that was revealed sang the glory of knowledge and the pen. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndTolerance_1.aspx?ArticleID=5251 |
The War within Islam | |
| 25 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Pakistan in Grip of Raging Ethnic Violence | |
By B. Raman August 25, 2011 The cycle of violence in Karachi will continue as none of the contending parties is likely to force a strategic confrontation which could destabilise Pakistan. Hence, such periodic confrontations will continue till the criminal-politician-police nexus is broken The civil war-like situation in Karachi continues without respite. Seventy-three persons belonging to different communities and religious sects were reported to have been killed — many of them in targeted shootings and some kidnapped and tortured to death — during four days of fresh violence between August 16 and 19. The level of violence considerably came down on August 20. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamWarWithinIslam_1.aspx?ArticleID=5323 |
| The War within Islam | ||||
| 22 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | ||||
| New Indian Muslim Leaders: Plights and Possibilities | ||||
The Fortress of the Faith, Darul Uloom Deoband, has decided to remove Gulam Mohamad Vastanvi, the controversial rector. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamWarWithinIslam_1.aspx?ArticleID=5295 | ||||
Vastanvi, a new age leader of Indian Muslims, has certainly arrived and sure to make his presence felt and provide the much needed balance.| Radical Islamism & Jihad | |
| 22 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Islamism within Pakistan's Army and the Nuclear Bomb | |
By Maajid Nawaz 19 Aug. 2011 Army officers have been arrested for membership, orange stickers calling for an uprising are being pasted in the cities, and trendy young activists with disarming sincerity are recruiting from Pakistan's English-medium campuses; who are Hizbut Tahrir (HT) and what do they want? Having been a member for 13 years, being on the leadership of the groups UK chapter, having helped to co-found the group in Pakistan and Denmark, and having served a 5 year prison sentence in Egypt for my membership to the group, kindly allow me to explain. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamRadicalIslamismAndJihad_1.aspx?ArticleID=5302 |
| Urdu Section | |
| 14 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Quran: Protector of Multicultural Society | |
By Sohail Arshad, NewAgeIslam.com Quran prohibits disgracing other religions and their gods. The Quran advocates multicultural society where believers of all other religions live in peaceful co-existence. Today the Muslim community and especially where they are in majority have risen in to violent groups, in the name of religion and establishment of the rule of Allah on earth. They are involved in suicide bombing. URL for English Article: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndPluralism_1.aspx?ArticleID=5208 URL: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamUrduSection_1.aspx?ArticleID=5258 |
Monday, September 5, 2011
| Islam, Women and Feminism | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Saudi Women Demand their Freedom and Dignity | |
By Mai Yamani 23 August 2011 The unexpected visibility and assertiveness of women has helped propel what has become known as the Arab spring. Major changes have occurred in the minds and lives of women, helping them break the shackles of the past and demand their freedom and dignity. Since January 2011, images of millions of women demonstrating alongside men have been beamed around the world. One saw women from all walks of life marching for a better future for themselves and their countries. They appeared prominently - eloquent and outspoken, chanting calls for democratic change. They walked, bused, telephoned, and tweeted, motivated partly by a desire for their own empowerment. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamWomenAndFeminism_1.aspx?ArticleID=5312 |
| Radical Islamism & Jihad | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Counting the cost of the 9/11 wars | |
Jason Burke 22 August 2011
If, just over a decade ago, you had looked north through binoculars from frontline Taliban positions 30 miles north of Kabul, you would have seen an old Soviet-built airbase, little more than a cluster of ruined buildings, rusting metal stakes, a single battered jeep and no serviceable aircraft at all on the scarred strip of concrete shimmering in the Afghan sun. The group of scruffy Taliban fighters in filthy clothes who manned the makeshift trenches on the heights above it would probably have served grapes and tea to you as they did to the rare reporters who visited them. If you had come back just a little later, say in the spring of 2002, you would have seen a startling difference. With the Taliban apparently defeated, the airstrip had become the fulcrum of a build-up of American and other international forces in the country that would continue inexorably over the next years. The feverish activity of the bulldozers, tents, jets and helicopters gave a sense that something extraordinary was happening. But its exact nature was still very unclear. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamRadicalIslamismAndJihad_1.aspx?ArticleID=5315 |
| The War within Islam | |
| 22 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Islam at center of Moro fight: “The purpose of Jihad is to establish Allah’s sovereignty” | |
By Jeffrey M. Tupas 20 Aug. 2011 MAGUINDANAO—The warning was very specific: No smoking in front of Ameril Umra Kato or anywhere close enough for him to see or near his armed followers called the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamWarWithinIslam_1.aspx?ArticleID=5297 |
| Islam and the West | |
| 20 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Do petrodollar-funded Islamist organisations represent American Muslims? | |
August 19, 2011 One of the most politically toxic issues of our time is called Islam in the West, and Khomeinist Political Islam by the people of Iran. What was supposed to be another Abrahamic religion has become an apparatus for global blackmail; and it is being emboldened by power grabbers sitting atop the World of Islam's Ivory Tower, and fanned by the Western ideologues and the uninformed mainstream media. There have always been those who have made a good living out of chaos and mayhem; but the antidote to these people should be support for the sane victims, not the insane aggressors. While the silent majority of the American Muslims are going to work every day, paying their taxes, sending their children to school and saving for their college, they still have to worry about what the Islamists are going to come up with next, to yet again upset their lives -- and worse, how the Islamists will be appeased by some politicians and the mainstream media. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5292 |
| Islam and the Media | |
| 20 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Pakistan’s surreal Urdu media — I | |
By Aakar Patel May 25, 2011
The Pakistani’s uncomplicated view of the world is revealed in his Urdu press. A sample is available daily in the verse of Riaz urRehman Saghar, the poet published on Nawa-i-Waqt’s second page. He’s entertaining, but his trajectory is predictable: Citizens victims, Muslims pious, hukumran corrupt, Pakistan honourable, Amrika bad, Bharat worst. (Urdu writers refer to India as Bharat, rarely as Hindustan.) After over 160 people were slaughtered in Mumbai, Saghar wrote verse scolding India for making it up (“khel rachaya Bharat ne”). Sharing the page with Saghar is Tayyaba Zia Cheema, Nawa-i-Waqt’scorrespondent from New York. She wrote this on May 20: “Yeh faisla ab Pakistani qaum ko karna hai ke woh zillat ki zindagi jina chahti hai ya usay ghairat ki mot pasand hai.” What a strange thing to say. Why must Pakistan die so that Ms Cheema can feel honourable in New York? And why hector Pakistanis from there? http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimMedia_1.aspx?ArticleID=5287 |
| Islam and the West | |
| 24 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| American Muslims See ‘foreign law’ Bill as Attack on Shariah: Defenders Call it Buffer for Courts | |
By Andrea Billups 23 August 2011 DETROIT — A national drive against citing "foreign" laws in U.S. courts - one that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law - has reached the state with the nation's largest concentration of Muslims. The Michigan bill, which mirrors "American Laws for American Courts" legislation introduced in more than 20 other states, was introduced in June by state Rep. Dave Agema, Grandville Republican. He has argued that it has nothing to do with Islam or the faith's Koran-based Shariah law, but is designed to stop anyone who seeks to invoke a foreign law in state courts. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5316 |
| Islam,Terrorism and Jihad | |
| 20 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Has Al-Qaeda Opened A New Chapter In The Sinai Peninsula? | |
By Andrew McGregor August 17, 2011 Executive Summary: In the absence of police and government security forces, al-Qaeda-sympathetic movements, including al-Shabaab al-Islam (The Youth of Islam), have formed in the Sinai Peninsula. The demands of these Salafi-Jihadist groups reflect both local and regional concerns. Among their demands are calls for a full implementation of Shari’a, the revocation of Egypt’s treaties with Israel, the establishment of an Islamic Emirate in the Sinai and Egyptian military intervention against Israel on behalf of the Palestinians in Gaza. Despite a statement proclaiming the establishment of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, core al-Qaeda has not yet acknowledged this new chapter of the movement. Sinai-based militants have repeatedly targeted a natural gas pipeline to Israel in a show of distaste for Arab-Israeli relations and to strike a symbol of the corruption of Mubarak’s regime. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamTerrorismJihad_1.aspx?ArticleID=5293 |