Terrorism: Perception vs. Reality
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsRqF4kguY[/youtube] Professor Kurzman studies the Middle East closely and has expertise on terrorism and radical Islam. In this conversation, he discusses Al Qaeda after the death of Osama Bin Laden and the effectiveness of radical groups in recruiting young Muslims. Kurzman is a professor of sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill....
Egyptian Islamist Calls for Tolerance of Coptic Christians...
May 11, 2011 Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo Violence between Egypt’s Coptic Christians and conservative Muslims has led to calls for tolerance from some unlikely sources. The allegiance of the men gathered outside a mosque in central Assyut is clear. But the man addressing the rally implores them to embrace those of other religions. Aboud el-Zomour warns against interfaith violence that just days before in Cairo left 12 people dead. An ex-army officer, former leader of Islamic Jihad, and prisoner for nearly 30 years for his role in killing the perceived infidel President Anwar Sadat, al-Zomour now presents himself as a messenger of peace. He tells the crowd his group has “turned the page of violence, forever and with...
Indonesian Muslims Express No Sympathy on Death of Osama bin Laden...
May 02, 2011 Brian Padden | Jakarta In Indonesia, a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, many people voiced support for the U.S. operation that killed Osama bin Laden Although Indonesia is home to a variety of militant Islamic organizations that have carried out attacks against Western targets, the country has a history of religious diversity and moderation. So it is not surprising that Darma Widjaya, like many of the Muslims who came to midday prayers at the Sunda Kelapa mosque in Jakarta Monday expressed no sympathy upon hearing of the death of Osama bin Laden. He says it is quite good for the entire world, because bin Laden is a terrorist. Another mosque visitor...
US Muslims Relieved at Death of bin Laden...
May 02, 2011 Jerome Socolovsky | Washington, D.C. In the past decade, many American Muslims have said Osama bin Laden changed their lives in America for the worse. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that he ordered killed nearly 3,000 people and made all Muslims a target of suspicion, they said. So the killing of bin Laden by U.S. military commandos storming a heavily fortified compound in Pakistan was widely welcomed. “Today we greet the news of the death of Osama bin Laden with immense relief,” said Tarin. Haris Tarin, the head of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Washington office, says he was awake all night after the killing, communicating with Muslims, especially the younger generation. “And I...
US Group Launches Campaign to Promote Peaceful Image of Islam...
December 21, 2010 Peter Fedynsky | New York Many Muslims are concerned that terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam are creating a false impression that the faith is violent by its very nature. A group of American Muslims has launched a campaign at Times Square in New York City to defend Islam against that impression. Amid the blaze of lights at Times Square in New York City are signs advertising a range of goods and services — from restaurants to theaters, from pharmaceuticals to the New York Yankees baseball team. This holiday season, there is also a 15-second video sponsored by Muslims for Peace, a group that follows the pacifist tradition within Islam. It promotes a...
Stockholm Bomber Seen as Radical by U.K. Muslims...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners. On Saturday, officials say, he died in a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm. Authorities are now trying to learn when he was radicalized, whether he had accomplices — and how a man whose radical views were displayed both online and in person escaped official notice. Swedish prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said Monday that authorities are certain the suicide bomber who terrified pre-Christmas shoppers was Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede who spent much of the past decade in Britain. He said Abdulwahab was completely unknown to Swedish security police...
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