Taking lessons from Malaysian extremists
BosNewsLife: Islamists Burn, Loot Algerian Church
Islamists burned and looted a Protestant church in northern Algeria in an attack that was fueled by violence against Christians elsewhere in the Muslim and Arab world, church officials said Monday, January 11.
The Pentecostal oriented Tafat Church, which is located in an apartment block in the city of Tizi Ouzou [...]
Why Wahhabism fails in Southeast Asia
Most Indonesians- and Southeast Asians, for that matter- are not afraid to identify the threat that confronts them. I am speaking, more specifically, about the source of extremist behavior within their societies. In the west, Wahhabism is often seen as a devious concoction by so-called Western Islamaphobes. A lot of Muslims believe that. In numerous [...]
Catholics win right to use the word Allah
Catholic newspaper in Malaysia wins first round of legal battle against ‘Allah’ ban order
A Roman Catholic newspaper cleared its first legal hurdle Monday in its fight against a Malaysian government ban on Christians using the word “Allah” as a synonym for “God.”
High Court Judge Lau Bee Lan ruled that prosecutors’ objection to a lawsuit by [...]
Something’s afoot in Perlis
It’s no secret that Muslim extremists have a binary view of the world. There are the good people and there are the bad people. Obviously, these Muslim extremists, or Islamists, would claim that they belong to the first group. That’s the staging ground for a grander agenda. Their special-ness extends to within the Muslim community [...]
Don’t forget the tail end of the world
The mainstream media has paid so much attention on extremist groups in the western hemisphere and Middle East that another part of the world has virtually dropped out of the radar screen. That part is the Asian theater of what I call the global jihadist agenda.
Now, some would disagree with the notion that extremists [...]
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