Religious Extremism

Jerusalem Post: Turkish State Weaponizes Islamism to Assassinate Women Activists

June 23, 2021

According to The Jeruselem Post, the Turkish state is using Islamism to silence women in politics and public activism by sponsoring a growing number of targeted assassinations of Kurdish women inside Turkey and abroad, including accusations of sending assassins to target women activists from Syria to France.
Iran’s President-Elect Confronts Discontent With Islamist Authoritarianism

June 23, 2021

Iran’s newly elected president Ebrahim Raisi, an Islamist hardliner committed to sustaining the theocratic regime and ideological legacy of the country’s Islamic revolutionary clerics, faces the rejection of Islamist authoritarianism by the majority of Iran’s overwhelmingly young, urban population.
Taliban Declare Goal of Islamic System in Afghanistan

June 22, 2021

Leaders of the Taliban reiterated their goal of establishing "an Islamic system" in Afghanistan, emphasizing that a sharia system would be the best solution for protecting human rights and all outstanding issues between the Islamist extremist group and the Afghan government following the impending departure of US peacekeeping troops.
Indonesia’s Islamist Groups Adopt Policies Advocated by Banned Extremists

June 17, 2021

Indonesia’s government has banned several Islamist extremist groups who used violence to push for a sharia state, but mainstream Islamist groups are adopting non-violent, softer versions of the same policies, which aim to force these policies on society according to sharia principles which discriminate against non-confirming Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities.
IS Draws from Refugee Camp to Rebuild in Caliphate Territories

June 14, 2021

The large al-Hol refugee camp on the northern border of Syria with Iraq has become a wellspring for the regeneration of IS, including former IS fighters detained in the camp using Islamist terror tactics against the refugees and camp youth smuggled to IS cells regrouping in Iraq and Syria.
Pakistan's Islamist Regime Focuses on Education System to Intensify Islamization

June 04, 2021

The government of Pakistan's Islamic Republic is planning to implement widespread changes to the national education system, based on curricular, textbook, and teacher changes that expand compulsory Quranic instruction, intensifying the Islamization of society.
Leadership Changes Are No Deterrent to Islamist Extremism in Nigeria

June 04, 2021

The recent deaths of two high-profile leaders in Nigeria, including longtime leader of Boko Haram and the other, the country's Army Chief of Staff responsible for the country's counter-terrorism strategy, highlights that Islamist militant organizations fighting to impose sharia rule across the African Continent are currently winning the war.
Turkish State Tracks Children in Intensification of Islamist Factionalism

June 02, 2021

The internecine struggle between Turkey’s Islamist authoritarian regime and its former ally of the Islamist Gulenist movement has begun targeting students from kindergarten through twelfth grade at Gulenist schools, based on a special database comprised by the Directorate for Information Ministry of Education, which is being used by the Turkish judiciary and police to track critics of the government and blacklist them from jobs.
Jerusalem Imam Condemns US & Israel in Multi-Media Broadcast

June 01, 2021

Jerusalem-based Imam Yousef Makharazah delivered a sermon broadcast on international media platforms, in which he condemned the US and Israel, called for a revival of Muslims worldwide to war on "infidels », and conquer Rome.
Jihadist Groups Prove Opportunistic in Face of US Policy Shifts

June 01, 2021

Jihadist groups in Afghanistan and Yemen are proving opportunistic in the face of changing US foreign policy, including using the Trump-Biden administrations' withdrawal of Afghanistan to seize Afghan cities.