Are there any peaceful muslim nations?

Experts call for focus on families to prevent radicalisation of young people

IT’S simple, cheap and it’s surprisingly effective.

Now one expert is calling for Australia to take inspiration from a German approach to fight radicalisation following the arrest of five teenagers over an alleged Anzac Day terror plot.

Curtin University professor and chair of People against Violent Extremism Dr Anne Aly said Berlin-based program Hayat has been credited with helping foil terrorist attacks by using counsellors to help friends and family reconnect with the person.

“The family gets skills and counselling and the support they need to reconnect with the individual,” she said of the program which means “life” in Arabic...

...It’s a deceptively simple idea for governments around the world who are scrambling to counter the threat of the Islamic State, regarded as the “number one national security priority” by Australian officials...

Further into the article, it gives the amount currently being thrown around to protect Australia from Islamic Extremism (At Federal Level, on top of what each State spends)

The government has already raised the national terror alert to high and provided an extra $630 million in funding for the Australian Federal Police, ASIO and other agencies while introducing new counterterrorism laws and passport control...

I haven't seen a good answer yet, and it is my suspicion that there isn't a good answer.

Gunmen shot dead after opening fire at art exhibition in Texas featuring depictions of Prophet Mohammed

Two gunmen who opened fire at an exhibition and cartoon contest in Texas featuring depictions of the Prophet Mohammed have themselves been shot dead at the scene.

The two armed suspects drove up to the front of the building in a car as the Mohammed Art Exhibit in Garland was coming to an end and began shooting at a security officer, the city said in a message posted online.

Garland police officers then exchanged fire with the gunmen, and both suspects were shot dead, the city said...

It seems like it's long past time to seek a "final solution" to the palestinian problem.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/terror-raidsthree-bombs-detonated-as-attack-was-imminent/story-fnii5s41-1227347584823

POLICE and ASIO have foiled a teenage terror plot to detonate three bombs in an attack believed to have been planned for this Sunday in Melbourne.

Senior intelligence sources confirmed a 14-year-old from Sydney was among a group of teenagers targeted in co-ordinated counter-terrorism raids across Sydney and Melbourne on Friday.

In Melbourne, the bomb squad and heavily armed police were used in a raid on a doctor’s home, where his son was arrested...

Thousands of women brutalised and sold into sex slavery by ISIS militants

THE brutalisation and sexual slavery of women and girls has become central to the ISIS ideology, with “pretty” virgins sold at auctions and women killed and raped…

Last month, the Human Rights Watch released a report detailing the system of organised rape and sexual assault, sexual slavery and forced marriage by ISIS militants….

The Human Rights Watch interviewed 11 Yazidi women and 9 girls who had escaped capture by ISIS between September 2014 and January 2015.
Half — which included 12-year-old girls — had been raped, some more than once by ISIS fighters.

Nearly all had been forced into marriage, sold, or given as gifts…

ISIS response

ISIS has justified its treatment of women and girls in its magazine, Dabiq, saying Islam permits sex with non-Muslim “slaves”, which includes girls, in addition to beating and selling them.

In a lengthy explanation of how Yazidi citizens should be sold, enslaved and beaten until they repent and convert, the magazine dictates that unlike other female apostates — “who can only be given an ultimatum to repent or face the sword” — the Yazidi women and children should be captured and divided “according to the Shari’ah among the fighters of the Islamic State”.

Man found decapitated and several injured by attacker with Islamic State flag in Grenoble, France

A MAN has been decapitated and at least two more injured at a gas product factory in France by a man carrying an Islamic State banner.

The attack took place at the headquarters of American company Air Products, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Grenoble, in the southeast of France, just after 10am (6pm AEST).

Yassin Salhi, a 35-year-old truck driver, is suspected of decapitating his boss, before entering the factory grounds in a utility truck, then crashing the vehicle into a hangar at the site, prompting an explosion...

Attack on hotels in Tunisia kills dozens

ISLAMIC State has claimed responsibility for Tunisia and Kuwait, and an Islamist flag was displayed at the French site.

An attack on two tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort district of Sousse has killed at least 37 people, the interior ministry said...

France says 40 imams deported for hate speech

France has deported 40 foreign imams for "preaching hatred" in the past three years, a quarter of them since the January terror attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.

The minister vowed to clamp down on mosques and preachers inciting hatred after a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss during an attack on a gas factory last week...

Four US Marines have been shot dead in Tennessee in domestic terror plot: officials

FOUR Marines were killed in twin shootings at US military centres in the southern state of Tennessee in what officials said was a possible act of “domestic terrorism.”...

A US official speaking on condition of anonymity identified the gunman as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixson, Tennessee...

NBC News and CNN reported that he was a naturalised US citizen, originally from Kuwait.

Local news network WRCB said Abdulazeez graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2012 with a degree in engineering.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press said he was a soil engineering specialist working for the city.

A woman who attended Red Bank High School with Abdulazeez said he was a quiet kid, but well-liked....

In an apparent blog post written on Monday, he said Muslims should not let “the opportunity to submit to allah ... pass you by,” according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity on social media.

Yes the Muslim states are generally peaceful XD ahah thank you for asking.

Gunmen storm Mali hotels taking up to 10 foreigners hostage

JIHADISTS stormed two hotels in central Mali, seizing at least six hostages and killing three Malian soldiers and a UN peacekeeper in one of the most brazen attacks in months, defence officials said.

The Islamic militants assaulted one hotel in the town of Sevare, and then after an exchange of gunfire moved on to the Hotel Byblos next door where they grabbed between six and 10 people, said Lt. Col. Diarran Kone...

Bangladesh blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death in Dhaka

A Bangladeshi blogger known for his atheist views has been hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes in the capital Dhaka, police say.

Niloy Neel was attacked at his home in the city's Goran area.

He is the fourth secularist blogger to have been killed this year by suspected Islamist militants in Bangladesh.

Imran H Sarkar, head of the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network, told the BBC that Mr Neel had been an anti-extremist voice of reason.

"He was the voice against fundamentalism and extremism and was even a voice for minority rights - especially women's rights and the rights of indigenous people," he said....