Islam

For Indian Muslims forced from their homes by mob violence, not even displaced persons camps can protect them now.

A rare book treats the region’s residents as empowered individuals who can shape their collective future, rather than portraying them as geopolitical pawns.

As protests against a new citizenship law sweep the country, signs that the authorities are condoning and even instigating violence have India’s Muslims alarmed.

An expert on communal riots says the country may well be witnessing the start of a larger pogrom.

The French president’s recent speech is a sign that moderate leaders are waking up to the threat posed by political Islam.

Many Indians lack the documents needed to prove citizenship—and Muslims are in the firing line.

U.S. officials who praise Iraqi Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani while denouncing Iran’s supreme leader fail to grasp that the two clerical leaders have a shared interest in resisting outside threats.

Turkey expelled alleged sympathizers of Fethullah Gulen from government jobs after the 2016 coup attempt. Other Islamic sects, and one in particular—the Menzil—are now filling the vacuum.

The rise of prison emirs and radicalization among incarcerated extremists means that governments must be as vigilant with prisoners as they are with fundamentalists on the street.

A new book on the West’s declinist anxiety is a welcome antidote to Islamophobic alarmism, but it could go further in debunking misguided notions of “us” and “them.”

Iran divides and disrupts in the Middle East, but it has a different playbook in Pakistan.

The suffering of Uighurs caught global attention this year—but the Chinese authorities weren’t moved.

The U.K. Labour Party’s abject failure to address anti-Semitism has garnered headlines, but hatred of Muslims is even more rampant in Britain—and the prime minister and his party have contributed to making it socially acceptable.

Coerced Uighur labor touches almost every part of the supply chain.

Many European far-right parties made their mark by railing against the EU. Now they are appealing to a pan-European identity to further their goal of a racially pure, white Christian continent.

U.S.-favored policies in Central Asia must be rolled back to help save the Uighur people.

Hindu nationalists have long wanted to reshape the region. Now they are getting their chance.

Anger at the presence of U.S. troops on sacred Saudi soil led Osama bin Laden to found al Qaeda and wage jihad on the West. The crown prince’s decision to welcome them back could light the fuse again.

The Trump administration has done more for the millions in camps than any Islamic leader.

The Saudi crown prince’s regional aggression and disdain for human rights have prompted religious scholars and pious pilgrims to refuse to go on the hajj.