Center for the Study of Political Islam International
The Muslim Brotherhood has been foraying into the West while it looks the other way, unlike Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have long banned it
Rawadari, a human rights organisation, says human rights violations and repression have remained widespread in Afghanistan over the past five years, with at least 6,929 civilians killed or wounded...
CSPII Commentary: CSPII: The piece claims Democratic criticism of AIPAC distracts from what it presents as the real problem: Islamic political influence in elections. Political Islam, rather than Israel, is the key foreign meddler in U.S. politics.
University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi cast Muslim Palestinians as victims while wearing a keffiyeh in the speech
Five years ago today, Afghanistan fell back into the grips of the Taliban's extremist regime. An online friendship with a rural Australian has been one lifeline for Afghan medical doctor and secret teacher Azada.
Human Rights Council asked to intervene in seizure of historic church
Taliban "foreign minister" Amir Khan Muttaqi boasted in an interview with the BBC this week that the terrorist organization, which will mark five years since seizing power in Afghanistan on Saturday, has expanded its diplomatic outreach to include over 40 embassies and consulates around the world.
Cambridge academic Farah Ahmed, a former Hizb-ut-Tahrir member, stated "As Muslim parents we try to protect our children from the rubbish that western society encourages,"
In Toulouse, a knife-wielding Muslim attacked two police officers who were sitting in their patrol car, and managed to wound both of them.
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.
Police in the UK have for years been practicing affirmative action for Muslims.
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.
The article looks at why Christianity is growing in Iran as Islam declines.
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.
The media talk about heatwaves, but none dares to mention the demographic wave. While the heat will pass, the change in population won’t.
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.