Dozens of organisations in Bosnia are involved in organising lectures by Salafi preachers who stand accused of promoting intolerance and questioning basic human rights. And some are funded from state ...

US President Donald Trump crowed victory over the so-called Islamic State in his State of the Union Address. Like so many before it, his claim was premature. The United States and its partners have ...

Debate among Muslims is growing following London's bombings - with a string of conferences debating terrorism. Just weeks after the attacks, events are starting to be held throughout the UK by a wide ...

Kuwaiti lawmakers reject preacher’s ideas and say they jeopardise Kuwaiti unity Manama: A planned lecture by an Egyptian Salafi scholar has been cancelled by the organisers of an annual festival in ...

The recent emergence of the hardline Salafi trend in Egypt after the January 25 revolution has given way to a series of controversial fatwas that mainly focused on women, Copts, culture and democracy.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Salafi-jihadi groups linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State are spreading in Africa, posing new threats to countries that have either suppressed or not yet experienced significant and sustained ...

If the Arab Spring uprisings were an earthquake in Middle Eastern politics, last week was a major aftershock. The rumbling began in Cairo, where a satellite TV station run by Salafis played clips of ...

Egypt’s Al Nour (“The Light”) party, the second-biggest in the country, named a new leader, Younis Makhioun, last week. The previous leader of this hardline Salafi party, Emad Abdel Ghafour, resigned ...