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jihad | eco-socialism | capitalism | Islamic-left politics | Indonesia

Jihad Against Capitalism: FNKSDA and the Islamic Eco-socialist Movement in Indonesia

A group of environmental activists in Indonesia see Islamic values as necessitating a struggle for socialism....

June 23, 2022

colonialism | jihad | repentance | violence

But Who's Counting?

The “Global North” is where most Sightings readers live. In his new book Crusade and Jihad (Yale, 2018), historian William R. Polk includes in this neighborhood China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America, plus, presumably, “et cetera.” His subtitle ...

June 18, 2018

ISIS | Islamiic State | IS | Syria | Iraq | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Islam | Sykes Picot | Middle East | Mohammad | jihad | Mahdi | President Obama | sharia

For ISIS, the United States' Military Strikes Confirm God's Favor -- Jeffrey Kaplan

NOTE: This article seeks to present readers with the vision of the world as seen through the eyes of Islamic State fighters and their wider Muslim audiences, a perspective redolent with religious symbolism and a genuinely millenarian view of the regi...

September 25, 2014