Religious Extremism

Islamic Jihad Threatens Israel Over Palestinian Prisoner Controversy

April 24, 2023

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (IJ) leadership has issued a general threat against Israel within the context of a hunger strike by an imprisoned leader of the Islamist extremist paramilitary group, accusing Israeli authorities of depriving the PIJ prisoner from "fulfilling his social and national role" among Palestinians since an Israeli security dragnet in the West Bank led to the detention of multiple suspects involved in terrorist activities
Iran Moves to Use Surveillance Technology & Courts to Staunch Support for No Hijab Requirement

April 17, 2023

The Deputy Attorney General of Iran has announced that the Islamist regime will prosecute supporters of “unveiling,” or the end of requirements for women to wear Islamic head coverings in public, by using public surveillance technology to identify unveiled women and to prosecute them and all supporters through criminal proceedings whose decisions will be “final and unappealable.”
Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Uses Earthquake Relief to Syria as Cover for Supporting Islamist Operations

April 17, 2023

The special operations and intelligence Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been exploiting the need for humanitarian relief in earthquake-decimated Syria to transfer, under cover of earthquake assistance, weapons and other materiel to try to keep Syria within Iran’s anti-Israel Axia and to transfer materials via Syria to Lebanon into the hands of Iran’s Islamist extremist proxy, Hezbollah.
Key Mideast Islamic Regimes Continue Reconciliation

April 05, 2023

The Islamic regimes of Iran and United Arab Emirates announced the e Synge of ambassadors in a move signaling reconciliation after an eight-year diplomatic rupture, with the move signaling a broader rapprochement among the Mideast’s Islamist states generated by the China-brokered detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Global Islamist Terrorists Put Sweden in Crosshairs

April 05, 2023

Five men linked to international networks of violent Islamism have been drained by Sweden’s Security Police, in connection with evidence of a plot to commit a terrorist attack in response to international Islamist calls for violent retribution in the aftermath of a controversial Koran-burning by a rightwing group in Stockholm earlier this year.
Paraguay's Move to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorists Is Wake-Up Call for Broader Security Threats from Islamist Operations in South America

April 03, 2023

The recent legislative move by the government of Paraguay to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization reflects concerning trends about the broader Islamist threats to Latin America's security environment, in which weak democratic regimes, political corruption, and dynamic criminal networks (the profile for Paraguay) have provided fertile space for a host of Islamist extremist groups engaged in radicalization, recruitment, financing, and violence in the region and transnationally.
Turkish Human Rights Report Slams EU for “State-Sponsored Islamophobia”

March 29, 2023

A special report published by the Human Rights Committee of Turkey’s Parliament slammed multiple European countries and leaders for “state-sponsored Islamophobia,” diluting Islam in Europe, and covering up right-wing attacks as terrorist attacks Muslims, while the same report carefully avoided the designation of terrorist for organizations such as IS and al-Qaeda, carefully wordsmithing references to their attacks in Europe as reactions to anti-Muslim sentiment.
Muslim Brotherhood Uses Globalized Western Position to Propagate Anti-Western Mission

March 29, 2023

The Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) position as “the mothership of the Islamist movement” has been consolidated by an unwavering commitment to core mission and a globalizing strategy that uses embeddedness in European and Western Hemisphere countries, operating under the guise of autonomous, but interconnected networks of cultural and educational institutions and advocacy groups, to carry out violent operations that destabilize the West and to promote sustained activities that corrode the cohesion do Western societies from within.
Plight of Saudi Jurists Underscores Judicial Impunity in Islamist Monarchy

March 24, 2023

Ten members of Saudi Arabia’s judiciary are facing the death penalty on charges of high treason, all of whom have been replaced with appointees friendly to the country’s authoritarian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with the vagueness of the charges against senior judges known for their arbitrary and extreme rulings against human rights activists reflecting the political impunity and arbitrariness that can easily affect any segment of the political class and society under the Islamist monarchical regime.
Islamism Plays Central Role in Turkey’s Forthcoming Elections

March 24, 2023

The Islamist Justice and Development Party that has ruled Turkey as a religious authoritarian regime for the last 20 years is trying to ensure its victory in the country’s approaching, highly contested national elections, by guaranteeing support from smaller, extremist Islamist parties that are anti-NATO and anti-rights for women.