The coronavirus outbreak has pitted Islamic clerics against politicians in a confrontation over religion versus politics; of course, religion and politics are intricately intertwined in normative Islam. The Pakistani government has already succumbed to pressure from Muslim clerics to open all mosques for Ramadan. Now Muslim groups in South Africa “are set to head to […]
South Africa: Muslim twins arrested for ISIS plot to bomb US embassy and Jewish sites
Their names suggest that they are converts to Islam. So many converts to Islam get the idea that their new religion commands them to make war on those outside its fold — yet authorities remain resolutely uninterested in this phenomenon. “Twins arrested in ‘terror plot’ on SA police radar since 2015,” by Susan Njanji, AFP, […]