Is ISIS Muslim?

For Egyptian Christians, 2017 was the deadliest modern year on record. At least 87 were killed by terrorists. But despite being labeled by ISIS as its “favorite prey,” Copts were only 12 percent of such fatalities last year. Far more Muslims died in extremist violence at the hand of fellow believers. read more

To protect Islam – and, by extension, Muslims – from any association with extremists and extremism is a worthy cause. But saying something for the right reasons doesn’t necessarily make it right. An overwhelming majority of Muslims oppose ISIS and its ideology. read more

There are typically two responses to ISIS. ‘ISIS has nothing to do with Islam’ or ‘ISIS are the real Muslims’. It’s easy to understand why so many Muslims—especially in western contexts—dissociate themselves from ISIS. read more

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL / ˈ aɪ s əl /), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS / ˈ aɪ s ɪ s /), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (Arabic: داعش ‎ dāʿish, IPA: [ˈdaːʕɪʃ]), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. read more