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Turkey’s growing global ambitions and its South Asia outreach, more focus on political IslamDr. Yayla highlighted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan established his rule by slowly shifting moderate Turkish Sufi Islam, based on teaching...
25 Jul, 2020, 11.35 AM IST
View: New vistas of cooperation between India and IndonesiaIndia & Indonesia have a mutual stake in each other’s progress, prosperity, stability and territorial integrity; and, as pluralistic democr...
29 May, 2018, 07.42 PM IST
Here's how schools of faith, mobiles are radicalising KashmirThe traditionally moderate school followed by the majority in Kashmir is being replaced by the Saudi-imported Salafism or Wahhabism.
09 Jul, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
How to salvage Kashmir: An initiative, with security, political and economic dimensions, is neededThe effectiveness of our armed forces in Kashmir must be urgently upgraded to minimise the frequent loss of lives of our brave soldiers and...
29 Apr, 2017, 11.13 AM IST
A twice-divorced Saudi mother of 6 reinterprets Islamic lawShe has paid a price for her opinions. She spent three months in prison without charge for "agitating public opinion." She has been barred ...
07 Nov, 2016, 07.03 PM IST
Why a section of Kerala's Muslim youth is treading a radical pathKerala has so far had an indigenous version of Salafism, which is considered relatively progressive, with its emphasis on educating women.
31 Jul, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
Kerala's Salafis now look for 'real Islam' in Sri LankaMembers of the group that is believed to have joined the IS mentioned to their relatives that they had a Markaz (centre) where they used to...
12 Jul, 2016, 10.31 AM IST
Islam Is Non-Violence: Unfortunately Sufis, Islam’s original mystics, are succumbing to sectarianism tooExtremism feeds on selective retrieval of sacred texts and history, creating irrational fears that require urgent remedial measures.
19 Apr, 2016, 12.49 PM IST
After PM Modi's appeal, Barelvi Sufis hit out against Wahabism in IndiaThe gathering holds significance in wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to members of Barelvi sect to counter extremism by way of...
09 Feb, 2016, 05.14 AM IST
Here's the manual that al Qaeda and now ISIS use to brainwash people onlineThe manual tells recruiters to "use current events and/or horrible occasions (i.e. the siege of Gaza) to comment and explain the situation ...
03 Jul, 2015, 12.40 PM IST
Despite similarities Tahir-ul Qadri is different from Anna HazareQadri, the founder of non-profit Minhaj-ul-Quran, returned to Pakistan after spending seven years in Canada, where he sought asylum in 2008.
19 Jan, 2013, 07.11 AM IST