I missed this over the weekend, but via Chapomatic and Crossroads Arabia comes news of a certain amount of quiet moderation in Saudi Arabia: Saudi king shakes up religious establishment RIYADH, Saudi Arabia The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condo...

JPost: Al-Qaida-style Salafist extremism gains real power within Hamas armed wing Al-Qaida-type Salafi Islam is rising in popularity within the ranks of Hamas. This trend is particularly noticeable in the movement’s armed wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades. Observation of this process shows tha...

From the latest edition of Q-News (scroll down a little): "There are some ideological liberals in our community who take to the pulpit to argue that American, British and Canadian foreign policy is responsible for creating the fertile grounds for violent extremists to germinate. The argument is lame...