Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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This image posted on a militant website shows ISIS militants marching in Raqqa, Syria. AP

Extremism: Case of Division, Fragmentation

by Hani Nasira | Jan 17, 2017 | Features

Dubai – The call for “unity” and “union” seems constant and efficient among different religious and ideological movements, each based on their views. However, their call has never been an encouraging unity factor, infact, they were factors of division,...

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An armored police vehicle blocks a road leading to a nightclub
where a gun attack took place during a New Year’s party in Istanbul,
Turkey, on Sunday. Ismail Coskun/Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS

Terrorism Unifies World from Aleppo to Berlin

by Hani Nasira | Jan 3, 2017 | Features

Dubai- As the world celebrated Christmas and the New Year, terrorism addressed its message to the whole world, from Turkey, France, Germany to Asia and the Americas… ISIS has threatened all continents, and despite the crisis it is facing in Iraq and Syria, the...

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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in 2014. SITE via Reuters TV

Extremism, Heritage, and Religious Institutions

by Hani Nasira | Dec 20, 2016 | Features

Dubai- The insistence on linking terrorism to religious institutions, whether Salafist or Azharist is a big mistake; and accusing the Islamic texts, the heritage, and the old scholars of incenting terrorism is even a bigger mistake. These mistakes turn the eradication...

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Reuters

The Fail of the ‘Fundamentalist Promise’ from ‘Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist’ to ISIS

by Hani Nasira | Dec 13, 2016 | Features, Uncategorized

Dubai – Before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Shukri Mustafa, head of Takfir wal-Hijra (executed in 1978) requested the Egyptian government to allow him and his group to migrate to Damascus aiming at establishing an...

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Arab Modernism, the Rise of Fundamentalism

by Hani Nasira | Dec 6, 2016 | Features

Dubai – Did the Arabic modernism fail, leading to the rise of religious fundamentalism? People who discuss the failure of the Arabic modernism focus on the fake representations of it and not on its original thoughts. They don’t consider its...