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NEWS ABOUT: Islamic extremism

Islamic extremism stories: 29 news summaries

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Hasan Sought to Turn in Patients for 'War Crimes'

Senate committee delays briefing on
Fort Hood rampage

Nov 16, 09 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan repeatedly tried to have his patients prosecuted for “war crimes,” raising the issue with Army authorities a final time on Nov. 2—just 3 days before the Fort Hood massacre. In a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality, Hasan asked superiors if he could legally pass... More »

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psychiatry • war crimes • Islamic extremism • Carl Levin • Senate Armed Services Committee • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

OPINION roundup

 Stop Making 
 Excuses 
 for Hasan 

Murderous Islamic extremism was his motive, not PTSD

Nov 10, 09 7:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Commentators are working overtime to explain away the Fort Hood shootings as a personal breakdown rather than what it obviously was, three conservative columnists argue today: a terrorist assault by an Islamic extremist.
  • The explanation for Major Hasan's actions should be crystal clear to anybody not afraid of offending
... More »

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Muslim • Islamic extremism • PTSD • Dr Phil • David Brooks • Jonah Goldberg • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

 In Pakistan 
 Battle Zone, 
 Few Back Army 

Hatred of Taliban doesn't translate into support for government

Oct 28, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan is stepping up its US-supported offensive against the Taliban in the country's lawless northwest, but military victories may be fleeting in the face of a greater challenge: winning the support of local people. In the border region near Afghanistan, the Washington Post finds that refugees fear reprisals by the... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic extremism • Pakistan army • South Waziristan • North West Frontier Province

(Newser) - Hamas launched a raid on an al-Qaeda splinter group's mosque stronghold today, leaving at least 22 dead, including the group’s leader, and around 120 people injured, Reuters reports. The extremist Jund Ansar Allah, or Warriors of God, had provoked Hamas by declaring the establishment of an Islamic “emirate”... More »

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Gaza • Hamas • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda

Terror Suspect Led Typical Suburban Life

But Boyd fought in Afghanistan, said 'good Muslims' waged jihad

Jul 29, 09 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The arrest of construction worker Daniel Boyd and his sons for conspiring to support terrorists came as a complete shock to their neighbors in North Carolina, who describe the 39-year-old father as a friendly gardener and fisherman. But Boyd has followed an uncommon path. After converting to Islam in the... More »

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Islam • jihad • North Carolina • Islamic extremism • terror suspects • terror cell • suburbs • Muslim convert • domestic terrorism • Daniel Boyd

Pakistanis Finally Turning Against the Taliban

Swat Valley battles push citizens away from Islamic extremism

Jun 5, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Only a year ago the Taliban had growing support in Pakistan, and many citizens regarded them as fellow Muslims opposed to the American government and military. But as the New York Times reports, public sentiment has shifted in recent months. Following violence in the Swat Valley and months of televised... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic extremism • Swat • Swat Valley • insurgency

US Terror Reports Boost Jihadis' Radical Cred

Extremists elders complain youth give them less respect than  Western analysts do

Apr 30, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prominent anti-Western cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi says he isn't going soft in his old age—and he's got the Western intelligence reports to prove it. The Jordanian jihad theorist, under fire from more radical and violent younger extremists, proudly points to a report from West Point's counterterror center labeling him... More »

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War on Terror • jihad • Islamic extremists • counterterrorism • Islamic extremism

UK Eyes Youth Terror Threats

Outreach program IDs 200 kids in danger of turning to Islamic extremism

Mar 28, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - A counterterrorism project in Britain has intervened with at least 200 children as young as 13 believed to be in danger of turning to Islamic extremism, the Independent reports. Police have been working with educators and Muslim communities to identify children vulnerable to being radicalized, and are stepping in where... More »

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terrorism • children • youth • Islamic extremism • Britain • al-Qaeda

Musharraf
Mulls Return
to Politics 

Pakistani leaders' bickering stokes ex-president's hopes

Mar 11, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's civilian leaders have squandered months on a struggle to oust one another, just when the global financial crisis and ever-bolder religious militants are further destabilizing the country, Time reports. One man sees opportunity in the current fiasco: Pervez Musharraf. After months out of the public eye, the ousted former... More »

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War on Terror • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Islamic extremism • Asif Ali Zardari • Islamic terrorism • Pakistan army

Ian McEwan: I Sheltered Rushdie After 1989 Fatwa

Novelist reveals how he protected his friend

Feb 16, 09 7:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Twenty years after the Iranian leadership declared a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, fellow novelist Ian McEwan reveals that he sheltered the writer in a house in the English countryside. In a long profile of McEwan in the New Yorker, the novelist describes how the pair listened to news of... More »

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literature • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • fatwa • Islamic extremism • English literature • Ian McEwan

President of Somalia Resigns as Rebels Battle

Islamist groups turn
on one another in
political vacuum

Dec 29, 08 7:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Somalia's warlord-turned-president resigned today, reports the New York Times, as militant Islamists continued their gradual takeover of the country. The departure of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed prefigures more woe for the deeply troubled nation, but it could also provide an opportunity. His resignation may let moderate Islamists come into the government,... More »

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Somalia • Africa • Islamic extremism • Islamist • Abdullahi Yusuf

Pakistani Taliban Vow
to Blow Up Girls' Schools

Extremists also ban polio vaccines; order women to cover up

Dec 26, 08 4:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Taliban militants in Pakistan's Swat region have threatened to blow up schools and kill schoolgirls if female education isn't halted by next month, reports the Times of London. The extremists have already destroyed 125 schools for girls in the region this year. Women have been warned not to set foot... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • school • Islamic extremists • Islamic extremism • Swat • North West Frontier Province

OPINION

 Obama Must Put 
 Lawless Somalia 
 Back on Agenda 

US has treated nation as if it doesn't matter ... just like pre-9/11 Afghanistan

Dec 6, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - With a government “rotten to the core,” continuing civilian deaths, and burgeoning Islamic extremism that echoes the atmosphere in Afghanistan under the Taliban, it’s time for the US to stop ignoring Somalia, writes Aidan Hartley in Vanity Fair. After two helicopters were shot down there in 1993,... More »

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Somalia • Hillary Clinton • Taliban • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda • insurgency • President Obama


 Saudis Fight  
 Extremism  
 With... Rehab? 

Saudis rehabilitate terrorists using ideological approach

Nov 9, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia has a particular brand of counter-terrorism: a cozy detention center where captured militants share their feelings, practice art therapy, snack on Twix, rumble on PlayStation, and leave with the prospect of a wife. The retreat, Katherine Zoepf writes in the New York Times magazine, is part of the... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Saudi Arabia • jihad • counterterrorism • rehabilitation • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda

Gaza Camps Offer
Arts and Crafts, Not AK-47s

UN hopes its summer camps can hose down extremism in Palestinian territory

Sep 4, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UN’s Relief and Works Agency is combating extremism in the Gaza Strip with some unconventional weapons: hula hoops, finger-painting, and sports, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The agency runs summer programs in 350 locations for Gaza’s youth in an attempt to counteract Hamas’ militant equivalent, where young... More »

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Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Islamic extremists • Israel and Palestinians • terrorist • Islamic extremism • United Nations Relief and Works Agency

 Al-Qaeda Calls for Gaza War 

Message from Osama's deputy urges attack on 'treacherous regimes'

Jun 5, 08 3:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's deputy has called on Muslims to launch a  holy war to break Israel's economic blockade of Gaza, reports AP. The call was issued in an 11-minute al-Qaeda audiotape by Ayman al-Zawahri, marking the anniversary of the loss of Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights in... More »

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terrorism • Gaza • Palestine • jihad • Hamas • West Bank • Osama bin Laden • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda • Gaza blockade • Islamic terrorism • Ayman al-Zawahiri

 Gallup Asks
 What Muslims
 Really Think 

Most admire the West for technology and human rights

May 17, 08 7:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - What do the world’s Muslims really think? In an astonishing 6-year study, Gallup interviewed 1 billion of them to find out. The vast majority support democracy, political freedoms, and women’s rights, the Christian Science Monitor reports:
  • Most said they admire the West for its technology, hard
... More »

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Islam • September 11 • Muslim • Islamic extremism • interfaith dialogue

  Bin Laden Threatens Europe 

He says cartoons of Muhammad part of crusade against Islam

Mar 19, 08 8:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden threatened Europe today with "severe" retaliation over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, the AP reports. The audio recording of bin Laden surfaced on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, though he made no mention of it, and a day before the Muslim... More »

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Islam • European Union • publishing • editorial cartoons • Osama bin Laden • Islamic extremism • freedom of press • religious conflict • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Iraq war

3 Busted in Plot to Bomb US Manila Embassy

Foreigners also targeted UK, Australia, Israel missions

Mar 6, 08 5:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Authorities in the Philippines have arrested three men from the Middle East who allegedly plotted to bomb the American embassy in Manila. One of the suspects is from Jordan, but their identities remain unknown, reports AP. The three were also targeting the embassies of the United Kingdom, Australia and Israel,... More »

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terrorism • Philippines • Manila • Islamic extremism

Spain Busts 14 Islamic Militants in Terror Plot

Barcelona raids yield bomb materials; attack wasn't imminent

Jan 19, 08 10:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Spanish authorities toady arrested 14 people—12 Pakistanis and 2 Indians—suspected of planning a terror attack in or near Barcelona. After raiding five homes, officials seized four bomb timers and computer data, CNN reports. “They had taken a step beyond radicalization and were trying to get the means... More »

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Madrid bombings • terrorism • Pervez Musharraf • Spain • Europe • terror plots • Islamic extremism • Barcelona • terror suspects

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