China China’s Islamic Challenges: Perceptions and Realities June 15, 2018 0 Written by Yitzhak Shichor. According to official figures, China has about 25 million Muslims, about the number in Yemen and Uzbekistan, twice the number in…
Afghanistan Fighting radicalization in Pakistan February 28, 2018 0 Written by Muhammad Nawaz Khan. The counter-terrorism phenomena as observed in the contemporary world today, is getting complicated. Hard measures alone are not enough to…
Extremism The Rise of Barelvi Extremism in Pakistan September 21, 2017 4 Written by Muhammad Suleman. Pakistan’s society has been badly marred by religious extremism and terrorism since the 1980s especially after the initiation of Afghan Jihad.…
Islam What Explains Rising Islamism in Indonesia? August 1, 2017 2 Written by Alexander R Arifianto. The Defending Islam protests, organized by Islamist groups such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), recently led to former Jakarta…
Islam The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party: Where Next? July 31, 2017 0 Written by Farish A. Noor. Following the death of the Spiritual Leader (Murshid’ul Am) of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik…
Islamophobia Nuclear Orientalism?: America, Pakistan, and the ‘Islamic Bomb’, 1979-2016 March 13, 2017 0 Written by Malcolm Craig. The heavily freighted idea of an “Islamic bomb” has been around for some decades now. The notion behind it is that…
