Gunshots fired at worshipers in Sinai
Live ammunition rounds were fired at worshipers praying Asr in the capital city of Arish of the Egyptian governorate of North Sinai. Though the perpetrators are not clearly seen in the video clip,...
View ArticlePro-Morsi protestors killed by Egyptian army and security forces
After Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi urged the public to take to the streets against “terrorists”, numerous media reports have indicated that 139 people...
View ArticleEgypt Documentary Part 1: Coup or Revolution?
The military in Egypt has deposed President Mohammad Morsi following a huge demonstration against the Muslim Brotherhood. The new regime says the majority of Egyptians wanted Morsi out because of his...
View ArticleRaw footage of Rabaa al-Adawiya massacre
Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been carrying out peaceful sit-in protests in Rabaa al-Adawiya since the ousting of Mohammed Morsi last month by the Egyptian military. On Thursday 14 August, the...
View ArticleGeneral Sisi “kills his own family”
General Fatteh al-Sisi was denounced by a member of his own family after the death of another relative in the massacre at Rabaa al-Adawiya. Hazem Lutfi Abdel Aziz Abdel Rahman al-Sisi who appears in...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: On the brink of genocide
Unabated violence between Christians and Muslims has plagued the Central African Republic since a coup by Seleka fighters to overthrow former president, Francois Bozize in March 2013. Thousands of...
View ArticleBoko Haram leader threatens to soak Nigeria with blood
The leader of Boko Haram sect, Imam Abubakar Shekau, has released a video in which he claimed responsibility for abducting the Nigerian school girls, and said he will soak all Nigerian soil with...
View ArticleBoko Haram release video “showing kidnapped girls”
A new video issued by Boko Haram claims to show some of the nearly 300 schoolgirls missing in Nigeria, who the group’s leader says have converted to Islam. AFP reported that Boko Haram’s leader said...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch video: Mass killings by Egypt security forces
Human Rights Watch has said that the systematic and widespread killing of at least 1,150 demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in July and August 2013 probably amounts to crimes against humanity....
View ArticleArmed Egyptian Hilwan Brigade fed up with “Muslim Brotherhood’s peacefulness”
A video has emerged showing a new Egyptian armed group, the “Hilwan Brigade” who say they are fed up with the Muslim Brotherhood’s peacefulness and have declared a war against the Interior Ministry....
View ArticleBoko Haram’s leader pledges allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The leader of the Nigerian Islamist militia group, Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The emir of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau made the public bai’yah (oath of allegiance) in a...
View ArticleEgypt’s Sisi calls for elimination of extremism and terrorism
Egypt’s President Sisi, who came to power through a military coup, has called for the strengthening of the nation state and the elimination of extremism and terrorism in the Middle East. In a reference...
View ArticleTunisia: Between Islam and Secularism
With the second round of presidential elections due to take pace on December 21 Tunisia is often described as the only Arab revolution success story. Three years after the uprising which brought down...
View ArticleVIDEO: Aftermath of deadly Tunisia beach attack
At least 27 people, mostly foreigners, have been killed in an attack on a beach near two tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to the interior ministry. Officials say one...
View ArticleVideo: Footballer Emmanuel Adebayor converts to Islam
The Togo and Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor has seemingly converted to Islam. A video is circulating on the internet where you can see Adebayor, 31, taking his shahada in a mosque...
View ArticleVIDEO: Egypt’s Justice Minister fired for saying he’d imprison Prophet Muhammad
Egypt’s Justice Minister, Ahmed al-Zind, has been sacked after he said live on television that he would arrest and imprison the Prophet Muhammad if he broke the law. Zind’s comments came in a televised...
View ArticleVIDEO: The effects of the war on terror
Research director of advocacy group CAGE, Asim Qureshi, delivered a lecture at the University Cape Town on the war on terror and its subsequent effects on Muslims worldwide.
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