The Religion of Peace
“Islam is the religion of peace” is a very popular claim made by many influential people. To evaluate it, two questions must be answered: Should Islam be considered a religion? And does Islamic doctrine actually preach peace?
Islam is a complete civilizational system—what Islamic primary sources call deen, a total way of life—containing political, legal, military, societal, and religious doctrine. In short, Islam is Mohammed and Allah. Their words and actions are recorded in the “Trilogy”: the Koran, the Sira (Mohammed’s biography), and the Hadith (Mohammed’s traditions).
This Trilogy contains an embedded political ideology—Political Islam—that constitutes 51% of its content and pursues a clear final political vision: global Islamic dominion. This vision goes hand in hand with the eradication of everything and everyone non-Islamic. That is the idea of Islamic peace. It can be pursued through both violent and non-violent forms of jihad, which make up almost one-third of the Trilogy. This page focuses on the quantitative and qualitative reporting of the contemporary harmful influence of Political Islam on both non-Islamic and Islamic societies.
More About This Page
Shortly after the editor of the former TROP (thereligionofpeace.com) announced in 2025 that he would stop maintaining the dynamic sections of the website after 25 years of daily hard work—counting jihad attacks and collecting news and articles from around the world—CSPII stepped in with a proposal to continue this remarkable effort. After a full year of intense preparation, we are now live.
Every day we continuously monitor 300–400 global media items linked to Political Islam and manually select approximately 15–25 of the most strategic ones. Selection is performed by experienced senior team members of CSPII (researchers, lecturers, and other seasoned experts) who have joined the project. This means we go through over 10,000 events each month. Simultaneously, we continue tracking open-source reports of violent terror attacks from around the world.
Political Islam is a global problem demanding a global joint effort in solving it. Therefore, our main aim is to support all individuals, organizations, and governments in opposing Political Islam in their respective fields of activity, regardless of if they are already doing it or if they are just about to start. With everything we do, we wish to save their precious time and energy, and to give them the informational advantage they need for their work. All this along with systematic education on Political Islam.
An email address, [email protected], has been created so that anyone interested can contribute by suggesting a Political Islam–related article (including video or audio) or reporting an Islamic terror attack. This system will help improve the informational value for all users and ensure that nothing important gets missed. Thank you for your help.
Looking for the Old TheReligionOfPeace.com Website?
www.IslamIsDifferent.com - An independent archive of the static content (research articles, quotes, etc.) of the former thereligionofpeace.com, maintained by its former editor. This archive has no affiliation with CSPII or with the current version of this website.
Global Report on Islamic Terrorism
Political Islam in the News
General
Political Islam Around the World
Women and Children
Women in Gaza are being traded for food and forced into marriages with their rapists, according to a pair of reports from the United Nations -- underscoring the critical importance of President Trump's Board of Peace in the war-torn enclave.
Human Rights
in Islamic Countries
Critical Voices
Commentaries by Non-CSPII Authors
Anti-Kafir Hostility
Council on American-Islamic Relations for Muslim K-12 students allocated more than a quarter of its text to the situation in Gaza, omitting any references to October 7th
Jihad
Hijra
Political Islam in Non-Islamic Countries
One of the nation’s largest Islamic charities (Islamic Relief USA) has changed its name and cut ties with a network of international partners after calls from members of Congress to revoke its tax-exempt status [...] Committee Chairman Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, alleged in a September 2025 letter that because of its ties to IRW, Islamic Relief USA had “engaged in conduct that appears to provide support for a designated terrorist organization and other conduct designed to incite chaos in a way that is contrary to the public good.” [...]
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