Salafists

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case to probe an alleged conspiracy by some youngsters in Kerala to join Salafist terror organisations Jund al-Aqsa and Jabhat al-Nusrah in their attempt to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria.

Saudi Arabia's most conservative Islamists are reeling from a loss of influence that has left them confused about their place in a country where they once wielded much clout.

An arrest warrant has been issued against controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, who is believed to be in Saudi Arabia. The warrant from a Mumbai court comes more than a month after the Salafist televangelist, whose name was linked to last year's terror attack in Bangladesh, was summoned for questioning. He had refused to come, suggesting that ...

Salafist televangelist Zakir Naik is likely to be summoned for questioning by the National Investigation Agency, which has been investigating him for the past 6 months. It is already examining 78 banks accounts and investments involving Rs 100 crore linked to him. Questioning Dr Naik, though, might prove a challenge since the preacher has been out...

The threat to India from ISIS may well come from the eastern border. The Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB, a terror group which was behind the Dhaka Bakery Attack and aims to establish an Islamic caliphate in the country, has been coordinating with the ISIS to create terror in India, sources said.

Much is made of funds pouring in to promote Saudi-style Islam in India (known as Salafism or Wahhabism), and of its influence, but what is the ground reality?

From time to time, the Indian government has warned of the dangers of the rise of puritanical, Saudi-style Islam in India, most recently, during the unrest in Kashmir, when it warned it will not allow a 'Wahhabi theocracy' to take root in the Valley.

Authorities in Germany have arrested one of the country's most prominent Islamic extremists on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group, prosecutors said today.

A Spaniard has been arrested in the Spanish north African territory of Ceuta on suspicion of recruiting youth to fight for the ISIS in Syria, the interior ministry said today.

"It is an era of intolerance," the Bombay High Court observed today while hearing a plea against the ban on entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of Mumbai's Haji Ali Dargah.

Polling opened today in Egypt for a much-delayed parliamentary election that will tighten President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's grip on power after he crushed all opposition since ousting his Islamist predecessor.

Israel carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip early today in response to a Palestinian rocket attack from the territory, an army statement said.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence services warned today that radical Islamists could seek to recruit young refugees coming to the country.

Explosions on today destroyed five cars in Gaza belonging to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, witnesses and a security source said, amid tensions between the Palestinian territory's rulers and Islamist extremists.

Ali Wahdan, a maths teacher from Gaza, lost his wife, 11 members of his family and a leg to Israeli bombardment of the town of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, during last year's war between Israel and Hamas.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case to probe an alleged conspiracy by some youngsters in Kerala to join Salafist terror organisations Jund al-Aqsa and Jabhat al-Nusrah in their attempt to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria.

Saudi Arabia's most conservative Islamists are reeling from a loss of influence that has left them confused about their place in a country where they once wielded much clout.

An arrest warrant has been issued against controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, who is believed to be in Saudi Arabia. The warrant from a Mumbai court comes more than a month after the Salafist televangelist, whose name was linked to last year's terror attack in Bangladesh, was summoned for questioning. He had refused to come, suggesting that ...

Salafist televangelist Zakir Naik is likely to be summoned for questioning by the National Investigation Agency, which has been investigating him for the past 6 months. It is already examining 78 banks accounts and investments involving Rs 100 crore linked to him. Questioning Dr Naik, though, might prove a challenge since the preacher has been out...

The threat to India from ISIS may well come from the eastern border. The Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB, a terror group which was behind the Dhaka Bakery Attack and aims to establish an Islamic caliphate in the country, has been coordinating with the ISIS to create terror in India, sources said.

Much is made of funds pouring in to promote Saudi-style Islam in India (known as Salafism or Wahhabism), and of its influence, but what is the ground reality?

From time to time, the Indian government has warned of the dangers of the rise of puritanical, Saudi-style Islam in India, most recently, during the unrest in Kashmir, when it warned it will not allow a 'Wahhabi theocracy' to take root in the Valley.

Authorities in Germany have arrested one of the country's most prominent Islamic extremists on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group, prosecutors said today.

A Spaniard has been arrested in the Spanish north African territory of Ceuta on suspicion of recruiting youth to fight for the ISIS in Syria, the interior ministry said today.

"It is an era of intolerance," the Bombay High Court observed today while hearing a plea against the ban on entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of Mumbai's Haji Ali Dargah.

Polling opened today in Egypt for a much-delayed parliamentary election that will tighten President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's grip on power after he crushed all opposition since ousting his Islamist predecessor.

Israel carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip early today in response to a Palestinian rocket attack from the territory, an army statement said.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence services warned today that radical Islamists could seek to recruit young refugees coming to the country.

Explosions on today destroyed five cars in Gaza belonging to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, witnesses and a security source said, amid tensions between the Palestinian territory's rulers and Islamist extremists.

Ali Wahdan, a maths teacher from Gaza, lost his wife, 11 members of his family and a leg to Israeli bombardment of the town of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, during last year's war between Israel and Hamas.