The Qatari regime, which subscribes to the Wahhabi theological and political creed, first turned to Muslim Brotherhood figures as a way of freeing itself from the decades-long religious and cultural hegemony of Saudi Arabia, bringing in Brotherhood (...)
The phenomenon of foreign volunteers fighting in wars abroad has passed through a number of phases in modern history. Among the most important was the case of the group of Catholic youths who responded to Pope Pius IV's call to fight against (...)
Muslim presence in Belgium goes back to the early 20th century, when some 6,000 Muslims lived in the country, according to official figures from 1925. More Muslims came to the country in the wake of World War II and the Marshall Plan for the (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood organisation spread in Europe after Brotherhood members began leaving Arab countries for the continent in the mid-1950s against the backdrop of conflicts with political regimes, specifically in Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
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The Muslim presence in Europe, for the most part, is the product of the influx of migrants during the 1960s. This was a period that brought intensive waves of economic migration from former European colonies in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and North (...)
The outcry sparked by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris has homed in on the question of combatting terrorism committed by the Islamic State (IS) group against France and the West in general.
While this directly explains what happened in Paris, (...)