In a harsh and outspoken article, 'Alawite Syrian writer Dima Wannous, who fled the violence in Syria and is currently residing in Lebanon, accuses the world leaders of hypocrisy and of employing a double standard in their attitude towards the terror in Paris versus the terror of the Syrian regime. In the article, titled "I Am the Syrian Charlie," she wrote that those world leaders, who gathered in Paris to express their outrage at the killing of 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo attack, have been ...
Introduction The death of six Hizbullah operatives in a January 18, 2015 airstrike in the Syrian Golan, including two senior organization members - Muhammad Ahmad 'Issa, known as Abu 'Issa, and Jihad Mughniyah, the son of 'Imad Mughniyah, Hizbullah's chief operations officer who was killed in 2008 - placed the issue of Hizbullah's military presence in the Syrian Golan, its character and its purpose, back in the spotlight. Also killed in the airstrike were operatives from the Qods Force in ...
As with the 9/11 attacks, conspiracy theories concerning the January 2015 terror attacks in Paris, at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish supermarket, spread throughout the Arab world and Iran; they claim variously that the attacks were the work of France, the French right, the Jews, and/or Israel. Among the conspiracy theories - which were published alongside numerous articles condemning the attacks - were those that claimed that France was behind the attacks, ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to email protected /* */ with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
On January 21, 2015, the Iranian daily Ebtekar reported that two days previously, Iranian President Hassan Rohani's chief of staff, Mohammad Nahovandian, had said about the attack on the office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo : "Those who insult the sacred figures of the religions aid violence and terror. Exploiting freedom of speech to insult and incite is an insult to freedom of speech and constitutes participation in the murder. In order to stop the violence, we must end the ...
While Tehran continues to vehemently insist that the death sentence fatwa by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini against writer Salman Rushdie for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad be carried out, it at the same time condemned the January 7, 2015 massacre at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris, and added that the European countries and the U.S. were also responsible for it. The Iranian leadership's pragmatic and ideological camps are united in their fury over Charlie Hebdo ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to email protected /* */ with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to email protected /* */ with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
In recent days, Al-Azhar, considered the most important educational institute and religious authority in the Sunni Islamic world, has been forced to deal with the question of whether members of the Islamic State (ISIS) are heretics. On December 3, 2014, at Al-Azhar's International Counterterrorism Conference in Cairo, Nigeria Mufti Sheikh Ibrahim Saleh Al-Husseini said in a speech that, by their actions, extremist organizations such as Boko Haram and their ilk bring a judgment of heresy upon ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
