The topic of ISIS has become a primary point of discussion on media panels, radio debates and news bulletins. However, the topic has seeped into the most intimate of spaces such as family gatherings and dinner table discussions. No group is questioning the motives, rise and ideology of ISIS more[…]
In the 21st century, Islam faces challenges: social, economic, political and theological: 9/11, 7/7 and the birth of Al-Qa’idah; wars in the East and Islamophobia in the west. And then there is the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). With real concerns that youth in South Africa are becoming susceptible to the ideologies[…]
Local armed opposition fighters say they are still in control of their only north-south supply line after Islamic State (IS) unleashed a dawn attack in Lajat, northeast of Daraa in southern Syria, on Tuesday. The attack was IS’s second offensive in southern Syria in six weeks. Following the group’s usual pattern,[…]
Not everyone who travels to Syria or Iraq have intentions to join the military ranks of the armed forces of the Islamic State (ISIS). Jasmine Opperman, the director of the Terror and Analysis Consortium, told VOC News that while recruitment is taking place in South Africa, ISIS has focused their[…]
A local task team has recently been established to tackle the growing threat that South Africans may be lured to take up ranks with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Reports recently emerged that nearly two dozen SA citizens have joined the radical group since 2014, with[…]
While Friday’s national unified khutbah against the Islamic State group has been hailed as “significant”, one terrorism expert has warned that the Muslim community in South Africa will need to do much more to be able to counter the ISIS propaganda campaign. “Although such initiatives are welcomed, if one looks[…]
Imams in mosques across the country will deliver a ‘national unified’ khutbah focused on ISIS on Friday, that will encourage Muslims to be wary of recruitment activities of the group in South Africa. This development comes after various Muslim organisations and scholars from across South Africa met recently to discuss[…]
Syrian government forces reportedly launched 17 airstrikes in and around Palmyra on Monday morning, following a Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) report that says IS has executed at least 217 people in the past nine days in the ancient city of Palmyra. The Observatory said on Sunday that it[…]
A prominent South African scholar has demystified the spurious contents of a letter purported to have been sent by a South African now living in the so called Islamic State (ISIS); the second such message to have appeared within the last week. The scathing letter, signed by Port Elizabeth born[…]
Johannesburg-based Muslim satellite radio broadcaster, Channel Islam International (CII) , is in possession of a document that has reportedly been sent by a group of South Africans, both male and female, who have joined the Islamic State (ISIS). The document is specifically addressed to South African Islamic scholars, said to[…]
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