Islamism

Muslims must reject hateful teachings or leave Belgium, MP tells ‘Post’ - interview

Belgian Vlaams Belang Party MP Sam van Rooy says he is constantly disappointed by other politicians who "talk about Israel obsessively, but don't really know what they're talking about."

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Member of the Chamber of Representatives (Sam van Rooy ask a question during a plenary session in the Chamber of Representatives in the Palace of the Nation on January 23, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium
A woman with tears of blood demonstrates in Paris on January 18 in support of the Iranian uprising against the Islamic Republic. Despite years of indoctrination, Iranians in the country and beyond are pushing back against the regime.

From Cyrus to today: Iranian resistance outlasted regime indoctrination - opinion

Despite years of indoctrination and incitement, the Iranian people have not fully succumbed to the coerced messaging of the regime

|ByRUTH WASSERMAN LANDE
Abdul Hamid Thunaibat of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, speaks as he addresses people gathered to pay condolences after the killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri, at the headquarters of Jordan's Islamic Action Front, in Amman, Jordan January 3, 2024

French lawmakers back EU terror listing for Muslim Brotherhood despite heated debate

The motion passed by a majority of 157 to 101 after a near-five-hour debate - the entirety of which was filled with heated arguments and across-the-board accusations of racism and bigotry.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
AMBASSADOR DEBORAH Lipstadt, US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism speaks during 'March For Israel' at the National Mall on November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Jackson synagogue arsonist unconnected to pro-Palestinian movement

Jewish activists and communities have been engaged in debate over which corner poses the greatest threat, and new incidents are often met with immediate speculation over the attacker’s motivations.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Is Europe starting to understand the Islamic threat? - opinion

Europe may also be starting to understand and justify Israel’s struggle against terrorism.

MARCH 3, 2025ByMEMY PEER
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, is illuminated with the colours of the Israeli flag to show solidarity with Israel

Islamism: The Left’s moral black hole - opinion

Liberals are more concerned with “Islamophobia” than with the content of Islamist doctrine. It is they who are guilty of a profound failure of empathy.

MARCH 2, 2025BySAMUEL J. HYDE
The results of the 1996 Dizengoff Center suicide bombing.

Morocco foils attacks by cell loyal to Islamic State

The group, which branded itself 'the Lions of the Caliphate in the Maghreb Al Aqsa (Morocco),' was allegedly planning remotely controlled bomb attacks.

FEBRUARY 24, 2025ByREUTERS
An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.

'Islamist terror' knife attack in east France kills one, injures five, media says

French President Emmanuel Macron called the attack "an act of Islamist terrorism," in a statement after the incident.

FEBRUARY 22, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A French police officer of the anti-crime squad, Brigade Anti-Criminalite de nuit (BAC N 75) is seen during a night patrol in Paris on October 16, 2020

Austrian knife attack suspect was radicalized on TikTok, officials say

The attack came just days after a 24-year-old Afghan drove into a crowd in Munich in neighboring Germany, killing two people and injuring dozens.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByREUTERS
Police officers stand guard at the scene where a 14-year-old boy was killed and several others were wounded in a stabbing attack, in the town of Villach, Austria February 16, 2025.

Deadly Austria attack: suspect swore allegiance to IS, had IS flag

The suspected perpetrator had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State and had its flag in his apartment and he was also an asylum seeker in Germany who had been radicalized online.

FEBRUARY 15, 2025ByREUTERS
Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner speaks next to Carinthia's Governor Peter Kaiser, Günther Albel, mayor of the town of Villach and Carinthia's Police Chief Michaela Kohlweiss at a press conference outside a police station in the town of Villach, February 16, 2025.

Trump will save the world from radical Islam - opinion 

Trump understands that what happened in Gaza was not genocide by Israel but rather a genocide perpetrated by Hamas against its own people.

FEBRUARY 6, 2025ByMEMY PEER
An illustrative image of US President Donald Trump.

Post-Assad Syria: The end of Baathism and the rise of Islamism - opinion

Perhaps Abu Mohammed al-Julani will defy the grim precedent, maybe he will break away from Salafi jihadism and break the cycle that has consumed countless others.

JANUARY 11, 2025BySAMUEL J. HYDE
Images of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, are riddled with bullet holes as fighters of the ruling Syrian body inspect the damage at a military site, in Damascus on December 14, 2024.

A history of mental illness, threats and warnings: What is known about the Christmas market attack?

Reported drug use, mental health struggles and extremist threats: What were Taleb al-Abdulmohsen's warning signs?

DECEMBER 31, 2024ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD, REUTERS
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visit the site where a car drove into a crowd of a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024.

Freedom for Boualem Sansal: Writer, thinker, and bearer of the torches of light - opinion

Considering Sansal's prior stances against the Algerian regime, along with his pro-Israel views and his visit to Israel in 2014, the "recipe" for his persecution was complete.

NOVEMBER 27, 2024ByMOHAMED SAAD KHIRALLA
Algerian writer Boualem Sansal poses after being awarded, jointly with French writer Hedi Kaddour, the Grand Prix du Roman, a literary prize awarded by the Academie Francaise for an individual novel, at the Academie Francaise in Paris on October 29, 2015.