by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is using the Sinai Peninsula as a “steppingstone” for attacks against Israel, according to a report by national security correspondent Rowan Scarborough. The terrorist organization has launched a propaganda campaign to recruit jihadists for a force in Sinai large enough to take […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Muslims will never be able to deal with their internal problems until they can get over their “fixation on Jews,” a prominent German-Egyptian scholar said. “The Jews have always been small in number, but they cause us some mental reaction and we cannot get them out of our mind,” Hamed Abdel-Samad said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Muslims should be prohibited from gaining citizenship in non-Muslim states unless it is a “life or death” situation, a Saudi scholar said. Furthermore, they should be banned from visiting the West as tourists, he said. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Habdan, a member of the Muslim Scholars Association, said travel to Western nations by Muslims […]
Special to WorldTribune.com While the usual blame-Israel responses cropped up in some Mideast media circles following the Brussels terrorist attacks, a new and noteworthy trend was seen in Arab media. Several media outlets put the blame squarely on Muslim and Arab culture for the attacks which killed 35 and wounded more than 300. A columnist […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran’s supreme leader questioned “the reality” of the Holocaust on Jan. 27 – which was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a video titled “Are The Dark Ages Over?” posted to his official website, said “speaking about the Holocaust and expressing doubts about it is considered to be a great […]
Special to WorldTribune.com As thousands of its youth join Islamic jihadist organizations, Jordan is being called on to reform an education system entrenched in “a new culture that hates life” and “celebrates death.” As many as 4,000 Jordanians have joined terror organizations such as Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A group of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) prisoners were given a taste of how it feels to be lined up for slaughter. In a video released on Dec. 8 by the Levant Front, a group of rival jihadists, the ISIL prisoners are put on their knees with their potential […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers is not an agreement or a contract, according to the founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is merely a “set of understandings and disputes compiled into a single document,” Yigal Carmon wrote on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has the power to at any time cancel the nuclear deal with world powers, analysts said on Oct. 25. Yigal Carmon, the president of the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), and Ayelet Savyon, the head of the institute’s Iran desk, wrote in an analysis that […]