jihad

October 9, 2019

Riot deaths in Papua must be investigated, says Human Rights Watch

Indonesian security forces have often committed abuses against the Papuan population, including arbitrary detention and torture.
June 14, 2013

US arms to Syria 'will make bloodbath worse'

Far from leading to a swift overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, US arming of rebel groups will "make the suffering and bloodshed worse".
May 18, 2011

Calling for a peaceful jihad against injustice

In his speeches at the demonstrations of the citizens’ protest movement in the Kurdish Region of northeastern Iraq, Mullah Kamaran has called for a revolution without violence—a jihad. He has urged the armed militias to put down their guns. He appealed to the demonstrators to see the soldiers as their brothers and not throw rocks or hurt them, and has twice been arrested for his stand. Peggy Gish of Christian Peacemaker Teams reports.
May 3, 2011

Al-Qaida post-Bin Laden: what next?

The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world, says Murad Batal al-Shishani, an Islamic groups and terrorism issues analyst. Al-Qaida and others' latest strategies look elsewhere, and the death of Osama Bin Laden will not affect these plans.
February 19, 2009

Assessing claims about 'global jihad'

Since 9/11 there has been a huge growth in the number of books that seek to explain and analyse the phenomenon of high-profile violent attacks by extremist Islamist groups. Ben White examines a contribution by high-profile Christian writer Patrick Sookhdeo.
May 4, 2007

Great Satan eyes up Axis of Evil

The news that the US is tentatively exploring contacts with Iran, despite President Bush's rhetoric, is surely a sign of hope in a conflict-ridden region.