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The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world hate the terrorist outfit Daesh that goes by several names--ISIL, ISIS or takfiris (for Muslims). Yet this is not something one would find reflected in the Islamophobic media of the West. Instead, they deliberately mislead people making them believe that all Muslims are either terrorists, potential terrorists or their sympathizers. Pew Research has discovered something very different.

يقرأ اﻵلاف حول العالم تاريخهم، أو بعضه على الأقل؛ يوميًا. لكنَّها قراءة ميّتة لا حياة فيها، برغم هالة القداسة التي قد تُضفى على هذا التاريخ، وعلى شخوصه. إنها قراءة ميّتة لأنها لا تتلمس حقيقة العبرة من التجربة الإنسانية، فهي إما تُضفى على المسار التاريخي قداسة تسعى للذوبان فيها هربًا من الواقع، أو تلعن دنسه وتكرِّس القطيعة معه تاركة فجوة عميقة في الوعي والهويّة. فجوة عميقة لا يُمكن تجسيرها بغير صدق إخلاص الوجه وتمام الصدق مع النفس.

Crescent International is providing a brief chronology of the confrontation between the Aliyev regime and the Islamic movement in Azerbaijan as the regime is severely restricting most of non-regime controlled media through coercive action.

Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian plane over Syria is an act of great provocation. It has increased the threat of global war several notches.

The Prophet’s (pbuh) Sunnah and Sirah are the two fundamental reference points after the noble Qur’an on which all Muslims agree. He is the best of exemplars (33:21) and obedience to him alongside that of Allah (swt) is obligatory upon every Muslim. It is for this reason that Muslims organize elaborate programs to celebrate the birthday of the noble Messenger (pbuh) that falls in the month of Rabi‘ al-Awwal.

First we had the shock and upheaval of September 11, 2001 (9/11), with all its hype and hyper hoopla, followed by all sorts of “terrorist” tremors in Madrid, London, Egypt, Mumbai, etc. And now we have the Friday-the-13th bloody rampage in Paris; if we are smart enough to learn from past experience there will be terrorist after-shocks wherever the handlers of this phenomenon deem necessary for their national interests.

By its own actions, Turkey stands exposed as the terrorists’ air force and conduit for shipping their oil to the international market.

Amid all the hype, tough talk and name calling following the Paris attacks, two names are conspicuous by their absence: Wahhabi Arabia and Zionist Israel. The role these two entities play is worth a closer look.

While absolutely abhorrent, the Paris attacks, as others elsewhere, must be viewed beyond the self-serving statements of Western policymakers. Intensifying the same failed policies will not yield different results.

The strategic shift caused in Syria through Russian involvement is self-evident. NATO’s project against Islamic Iran in Syria has collapsed but what are the ramifications beyond Syria?