The contest of tafkīr and takfīr
THE TAKFIRIST on the other hand lacks mental capacity, a cogent argument or any convincing evidence for his views, and…
Only an alternative mindset can defeat ISIS and its ilk
IT IS CERTAIN that the events that took place in Kuwait and Tunis and France on Friday 26 June 2015…
Isis didn’t just fall from the sky
THERE ARE MANY factors behind the emergence of the phenomenon of Islamic violence, including political, economic, social and psychological ones,…
Islamist terrorism: active, or reactive? – 1
AMID PRESENT DAY events associated with terrorist operations carried out by Muslim extremists, it has become customary for the political…
The challenges of saving Islam from an ISIS mentality
THE SIMPLE, DEVOUT Muslim understands that his religion commands what is good, beautiful and merciful, and forbids all that is…
ISIS and radical Islamism as sclerotic theology
WHILE ISIS IS ADOPTING a puritanical, fundamentalist and a ‘to the nth degree’ practice of that which they consider ‘Islam’,…
Terrorism: a political, military danger or a cultural, ideological challenge?
Hiroshima 1945: The Atomic bomb and US occupation did not lead to the growth of movements of anger, extremism and…