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Muslim World League secretary general denounces political Islam
There is no place for political Islam in France or anywhere else, Saudi cleric and Muslim World League Secretary-General Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa said last week.
In an interview with France 24 TV’ Arabic-language channel on...
Student group threatens to turn Purim heroes’ tomb in Iran into Palestinian mission
An Iranian student organization associated with Iran’s Basij militia threatened on Saturday to turn the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai into a Palestinian diplomatic mission if even a single section of the U.S. “Peace...
Palestinian cleric: Hating Jews is an Islamic religious obligation; Abbas is wrong to deny...
A Palestinian cleric criticized Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas last week for saying that any Muslim who considers himself an enemy of the Jews is a heretic.
In a Friday sermon in Jerusalem that aired...
Iraqi TV: Coronavirus is an American plot, similar to past Jewish plots
Iraqi political analyst Muhammad Sadeq Al-Hashemi said in a Feb. 26 interview on Al-Ayam TV (Iraq) that in the 1981 thriller novel titled The Eyes of Darkness, American author Dean Koontz had written about...
Louis Farrakhan: ‘America is No. 1 on the Mahdi’s list to be destroyed’
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday castigated U.S. President Donald Trump for “murdering” his “brother from Iran” Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last month. Farrakhan added that he had...
Jordanian MP: ‘I dare any lawyer, engineer or doctor to say hello to a...
A Jordanian MP said during a television interview last week that “all Arab peoples completely reject” U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan and called for the region’s people to pressure their governments to...
Saudi writers to Palestinians: Accept Trump’s plan, or you’ll regret it later
The official Saudi position on the Mideast peace plan presented last week by U.S. President Donald Trump was one of qualified support.
A Saudi Foreign Ministry reaction to the plan’s release stated, inter alia, that...
ISIS spokesman declares war on Israel, says jihad has entered ‘new phase’
Islamic State spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi stated in a speech published by the terror group’s media arm Al-Furqan on Monday that ISIS was “declaring war” on Israel, and called on ISIS branches in Sinai...
Al-Qaeda prompts calls to target ‘Zionist-Crusader alliance’ worldwide
Al-Qaeda’s General Command released a statement in Arabic and English commending the past year of operations by the Al-Qaeda-linked terror groups Al-Shabab in Somalia and the Group to Support Islam and Muslims in West...
Iraqi Shi’ite militia leader: US forces must leave Iraq now
The secretary-general of prominent Iraqi Shi’ite militia Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq said on Sunday that if U.S. forces do not leave Iraq immediately, they will be treated as an occupying army.
In a statement aired on...