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This is the name ISIS hates being called more than 'Daesh'

Edit Business Insider 17 Sep 2016
Some Muslims — and even ISIS' jihadi rivals — refer to ISIS members as "Khawarij" or "Kharijites." ... "The implication is that the Islamic State isn't similar to the Kharijites because the groups leveling this criticism aren't true Muslims, so therefore they deserve to be branded as apostates," Joscelyn said in an email ... Still, ISIS apparently doesn't like to be compared to the Kharijites who used similar tactics....

Daesh on brink of collapse in Iraq, Syria: Analyst

Edit Press TV 12 Jul 2016
The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV. I';d like to pick up on that last point that was made by Ammar Hakim where he stressed that the age of using terror groups as a tool is over ... Barrett ... It's really a group of new Kharijites who have stepped out of the house of Islam, more and more people recognize it; so, that group has no future and I think Iraq and Syria are going to see better days ... Barrett ... ....

Sufis not a minority, but a majority across subcontinent

Edit The Times of India 27 Jun 2016
ISLAMABAD ... They are also called Barelvis because of the location of the sect's main seminary in Bareilly ... Taliban and their ilk are seen as neo-Kharijites (defectors), who rebelled against Islam and killed Caliph Usman in the 7th century. Ali quelled the Kharijite rebellion before one of them assassinated him. Kharijites have since reared their ugly heads in different forms with IS and Taliban being the latest manifestations ... RELATED....

Iraqi top cleric’s fatwa turning tide against IS

Edit The Times of India 17 Feb 2016
KARBALA/NAJAF (IRAQ) ... The 35-year-old balding man vowed to return to the battlefield ... Kharijites (defectors) killed Ali with a poisoned sword in AD 661while he was praying years after he crushed their rebellion against Islam. A majority of Muslim scholars, including puritanical Saudi Arabian grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al ash-Sheikh, have denounced IS as modern-age Kharijites for adopting brutal ways ... ....

Americans not believed among militants detained by Saudis: U.S. officials

Edit Yahoo Daily News 01 Feb 2016
RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. officials said on Sunday they did not believe nine U.S. citizens were among 33 suspects detained on terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia over the past week, as reported by a Saudi newspaper ... Six U.S. officials told Reuters that the U.S ... However, two officials said U.S ... None of the U.S ... The Saudi clergy have denounced the group as "kharijites", an early Islamic sect reviled by Muslims for its extreme ideology....

Americans reportedly detained in Saudi Arabia on terrorism charges

Edit New York Post 31 Jan 2016
Nine Americans are among 33 suspects detained on terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia over the past week, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday citing an unnamed source ... The American embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment ... The Saudi clergy have denounced the group as “kharijites”, an early Islamic sect reviled by Muslims for its extreme ideology. ....

Americans among militant suspects detained in Saudi Arabia: paper

Edit Yahoo Daily News 31 Jan 2016
RIYADH (Reuters) - Nine Americans are among 33 suspects detained on terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia over the past week, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday citing an unnamed source ... The American embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment ... The Saudi clergy have denounced the group as "kharijites", an early Islamic sect reviled by Muslims for its extreme ideology....

Saudi Arabia report: Americans among 33 detained on terror charges

Edit The Guardian 31 Jan 2016
US officials unable to confirm report that nine Americans were detained this week, along with Saudis, Yemenis and others, in Saudi Arabia ... The English-language daily Saudi Gazette, citing an unnamed source, on Sunday reported that four Americans were detained on Monday and another five in the following days ... The Saudi clergy have denounced the group as “kharijites”, an early Islamic sect reviled by Muslims for its extreme ideology. ....
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File - French media coverage of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo attack, during which 11 people were killed.

Are the Terrorists Winning a Year After Charlie Hebdo?

Edit The Daily Beast 05 Jan 2016
A year after the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ slaughter, France is a different place. But the jihadists’ plan may have backfired. The long-term aim? “To try to blow up America.” ... 6 line was fairly empty ... Terreur dans l’hexagone ... Even among jihadists in French prisons, Kepel told The Daily Beast, the attacks were condemned and likened to the acts of the reviled Kharijite sect in the 7th and 8th centuries, which made it a practice to kill other Muslims....

The Un-Islamic State

Edit Huffington Post 24 Nov 2015
These are tales from over 1000 years ago of the Kharijites, a fanatical sect that broke away from mainstream Islam following the first Islamic civil war ... The similarities between the Kharijites and Daesh are quite uncanny, and there's even been some speculation that there's a link between the two ... In fact, they were named "Kharijites" (which in ......

Donald Trump doesn't care what's true, just what his base feels is true

Edit The Guardian 24 Nov 2015
Donald Trump is exhausting ... It never happened, but he doesn’t care who gets hurt ... You can prove that there weren’t Muslims thronging the Jersey shore to cheer the ruins of the World Trade Center, but you can’t prove that Donald Trump didn’t see Super-8 footage of a Jersey warehouse show of a Kharijite Supertramp cover band playing in front of a van airbrushed with the words “Death to Breakfast in America” ... STEPHANOPOULOS ... TRUMP ... Not good....

Growth of Isis and Islamophobia putting British imams under huge pressure

Edit The Guardian 23 Nov 2015
Imams are facing death threats from Islamic State, growing Islamophobia and a new generation of Muslims who congretate not in mosques but online. @aishagani ... Imam Qari Asim, the imam of Makkah masjid in Leeds, told the Guardian ... For them, I am not a Muslim either.” ... “This group has long been known to Muslims as Kharijites, literally ‘those who have gone out’ of the Muslim community ... He said ... Twitter. Qari said ... “We genuinely do feel that ... ....

UT religious studies scholar to discuss ISIS and Islam Nov. 17 (The University of Toledo) ...

Edit Public Technologies 17 Nov 2015
(Source. The University of Toledo). A religious studies associate professor at The University of Toledo will address the question 'Is ISIS Islamic?' at a previously scheduled talk made more noteworthy after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Dr ... Anjum ... 'Modern scholars across the globe, both Sunni and Shia, have condemned ISIS as modern-day Kharijites - a heretical group known for its violence.' ... ShareThis ... (noodl....
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