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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.

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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

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Islamic Terrorists have carried out Jihad Attacks Since 9/11
Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 4, 2026
Attacks 19
Killed 89
Injured 23
Countries 11
September, 2026
Attacks 81
Killed 468
Injured 337
Countries 27
This Day in History
A kidnapped British aid worker is blown up
Oct 8, 2010: Kunar, Afghanistan 🔗
A kidnapped British aid worker is blown up

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Political Islam in the News

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How An Angry Facebook Post Led To Saudi Death Penalty For Sri Lankan Man
New Delhi Television (NDTV) · October 7, 2026
Somalia: Former Al-Shabaab Foes Agree to Sharia Rule and Cooperation with Jihadist Group
blacknews.uk · October 6, 2026
CSPII Commentary: The Hawadle are a large Sunni Muslim Somali clan, concentrated mainly in Hiraan in central Somalia, near the Ethiopian border; Hiraan has roughly 500,000–600,000
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residents, and the Hawadle are its dominant clan. The significance is that Hawadle militias had been among the strongest local forces fighting al-Shabaab since 2022. Now, some Hawadle elders have reportedly agreed to stop fighting the jihadist group, accept or support Sharia enforcement, and assist it against Somalia’s government and African Union forces—effectively turning former local enemies into collaborators.

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Saudi Arabian Preacher Prays for Humiliation of Polytheists and Defeat of Atheists and Shiites
khutabaa-com.translate.goog · October 7, 2026
CSPII Commentary: In an Arabic sermon defending Saudi Arabia as the “land of monotheism,” Ahmad bin Ibrahim al-Ubaid prays: “O God, strengthen Islam and Muslims; humiliate
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polytheism and the polytheists; forsake the tyrants, atheists, Magians and Rafida, and all other enemies of the creed and religion”. “Rafida” is a sectarian slur for Shi’a Muslims, while “Magians” historically denotes Zoroastrians but is often used polemically for Iranians or Shi’a; the sermon is directed chiefly against Persian/Iranian enemies.
Saudi Arabia: Preacher Prays for Humiliation of Unbelief and Its Adherents
khutabaa-com.translate.goog · October 5, 2026
CSPII Commentary: In a sermon titled “The Virtue and Status of the Companions in Islam,” Saudi scholar
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Ali al-Shibl says hatred or abuse of specified companions constitutes unbelief that removes a person from Islam, and he recites Koran 48:29 describing Mohammed’s followers as “harsh against the unbelievers, merciful among themselves.” The sermon closes with the prayer asking Allah to exalt Islam, the Sunnah and their adherents, and to abase unbelief, polytheism, religious innovation and their adherents.

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Trump approves firing squad execution for 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, who killed 13
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · October 6, 2026

Nidal Hasan is the Army psychiatrist convicted for the 2009 Fort Hood massacre in Texas. Hasan killed 13 unarmed soldiers, wounded 32, shouted 'Allahu Akbar,' and said he acted to stop deployments against Muslims in Afghanistan.

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