Political Islam in the News

CSPII Commentary: A university in Uruguay canceled a planned screening of a Hamas propaganda film after an outcry. The film is still scheduled to be shown at Cornell in October, highlighting controversy over Islamic messaging in academic settings.

CSPII Commentary: The Partition of India in 1947 remains a haunting scar in the nation’s collective memory, a tragedy marked by unimaginable violence, displacement, and loss. More than a million Hindus perished in the chaos of mass migration, countless families were uprooted and millions more were forced to surrender their homes and heritage.

CSPII Commentary: Andrew Gipson, Mississippi’s Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate pleges to ban Sharia law from taking root in the state. He views it as a seditious, competing legal system incompatible with the U.S. and Mississippi Constitutions and American freedoms pointing to its impacts in Europe and places like Dearborn, Michigan.

CSPII Commentary: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court convicted Irfan Yousaf over the 2023 Jaranwala riots, where a Christian enclave was attacked after fabricated blasphemy accusations. Churches were burned and homes looted, while 13 co-defendants were acquitted after the judge cited defective police investigations.

CSPII Commentary: Residents in Fujisawa, Japan, are protesting the city’s first mosque, with thousands opposing it over sermon noise and alleged environmental concerns. The dispute has grown into a wider local backlash against the mosque and related Islamic practices such as burials.

CSPII Commentary: Afghan migrant accused of murdering British woman in Athens. Her body was found in a suitcase. Migrant said that he was a “jihadist” who killed her because she was a Christian.

CSPII Commentary: CSPII: A Nairobi workshop urged journalists from Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya to avoid euphemisms like “female circumcision” when reporting on FGM. N.B. Islamic doctrine endorses FGM. Koran 30:30 requires Muslims to 'adhere to the Fitra'—a set of practices that includes ‘khitan’—an Arabic word for the genital cutting of boys and girls. Mohammed, in the Sunna, endorse FGM, both explicitly and tacitly. For full details see CSPII Report: Female Genital Mutilation in Islamic Doctrine.

CSPII Commentary: Tim Orr discusses the June 2026 Oxford Union debate on whether “the West is right to be suspicious of Islam.” He argues that Muslims deserve full dignity, legal protection, and religious freedom, but Islam as a system of ideas, texts, and traditions must remain open to critical scrutiny.

CSPII Commentary: The Muslim Brotherhood at a school near you: the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of infiltrating democratic institutions by using civil-rights language and minority protections—is occurring in U.S. public schools.