On Saturday 2 January 2015, Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry confirmed the Kingdom had executed 47 individuals, who were supposedly executed for adopting takfiri ideology, joining “terrorist organisations” and implementing various “criminal plots.”

The battle has been lost. It began whilst the embers of the last Khilafah "Caliphate" State were still burning, soon to be extinguished. Whilst the poet’s ink was fresh on the page, when he cried,

In recent times we have seen the acceleration of efforts of the Western nations to assimilate Muslims. The death of multiculturalism, open calls from politicians for a Western version of Islam and the narrative of countering non-violent extremism has prompted many pertinent questions raised by carriers of the Islamic Da’wah such as:

On the 7th of December 2015, the Huffington Post reported that, after month long negotiations with the EU, the Turkish government has agreed to a deal with the European Union to control measures against the migrant influx in its region.