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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 7, 2026 - Sep 13, 2026
Attacks 7
Killed 13
Injured 78
Countries 6
August, 2026
Attacks 107
Killed 522
Injured 457
Countries 33
This Day in History
Christian publicly stabbed to death after being accused of 'blasphemy'
Sep 14, 2013: Karachi, Pakistan 🔗
Christian publicly stabbed to death after being accused of 'blasphemy'

List of Attacks

Political Islam in the News

General

Political Islam Around the World

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What Makes Islam Stand Out - Dr Zakir Naik
YouTube · September 14, 2026
CSPII Commentary: Naik’s clip sells Islam as the only “practical” path after listing virtues every faith already claims, which is dawa that omits the harder texts. Pickthall’s Koran
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3:54 says they schemed and Allah schemed, “and Allah is the best of schemers,” so the pitch can feel like help for Islam even when the method is concealment.
Schools, Corporate Media Rewrite Islamic Terrorists Out Of 9/11
thefederalist.com · September 13, 2026
US Muslims Gaining Political Power
dailysignal.com · September 12, 2026
UCLA disgraces itself by hosting terrorist lawyer on 9/11
New York Post · September 12, 2026
What Makes Islam Stand Out - Dr Zakir Naik
YouTube · September 14, 2026
CSPII Commentary: Naik’s clip sells Islam as the only “practical” path after listing virtues every faith already claims, which is dawa that omits the harder texts. Pickthall’s Koran
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3:54 says they schemed and Allah schemed, “and Allah is the best of schemers,” so the pitch can feel like help for Islam even when the method is concealment.
Schools, Corporate Media Rewrite Islamic Terrorists Out Of 9/11
thefederalist.com · September 13, 2026

Women and Children

 

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Violence Against Women Has No Islamic Legitimacy, Says Muslim World League Chief
Afghanistan International · September 11, 2026
CSPII Commentary: That is incorrect. Koran 4:34 permits a husband to beat his wife if he fears she'll rebel, [71% of the references to women in the
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Koran](https://www.cspii.org/methodology/statistical-analysis-political-islam/status-women-koran/) portray them as having low status, Hadith Bukhari Volume 3, Book 34, Number 362 permits the lashing of slave girls, and 89% of the references to women in the Hadith portray them as having low status.

Human Rights

in Islamic Countries

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Turkey detains dozens in raids on gay bars and LGBTQ activists
BBC · September 13, 2026

Turkish police detained 47 people in raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ activists in a campaign the government says protects family values.

Critical Voices

Commentaries by Non-CSPII Authors

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More than 65,000 Islamic terror attacks around the world since 9/11
Bare Naked Islam · September 13, 2026
CSPII Commentary: The number is higher then TROP/CSPII's count, which shows that our figures are quite conservative. This is due to our
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methodology and the fact that we count attacks that have been covered by the media. The figure discussed in the article is probably based on Fondapol's 2024 research.

Jihad

 

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9/11 CNN Time Capsule: Jihadis Strike New York, D.C.
web.archive.org · September 11, 2026
CSPII Commentary: Let’s go back in time and see how the media reported on 9/11 in real time. The Internet Archive is an extraordinary window into the past—a time capsule. No
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present-day commentary can replace the lived, horrifying experience of Islamic terror on that day, 25 years ago.

Hijra

Political Islam in Non-Islamic Countries

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Muslims chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ outside New York city hall on 9/11 anniversary; Heated confrontation erupts
Organizer.Org · September 14, 2026
CSPII Commentary: Chants of “Allahu Akbar” at City Hall on the 9/11 anniversary cannot simply be dismissed as a generic religious expression. The takbir is a [doctrinally
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multi-purpose formula](https://www.cspii.org/speak-about-political-islam/), used in prayer and ordinary religious life but also in jihad. In Sahih al-Bukhari 610, Mohammed approaches the Jewish settlement of Khaibar with his army and, immediately before its conquest, exclaims: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Khaibar is ruined.” Thus, when the same cry is shouted at a politically charged demonstration on the anniversary of a jihadist attack, its martial meaning is part of the phrase’s Islamic textual precedent—not something invented by its critics.
Christian Teen Beaten for Protecting Women in Pakistan
Persecution.Org · September 8, 2026

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