Religious Extremism

Iran Ups Spying Convictions Against U.S. & EU Dual Citizens

January 29, 2021

Iran's courts meted out a 10-year prison sentence to a dual US-Iranian citizen on espionage charges, the latest in a recent trend of non-transparent, arbitrary judicial decisions in which the Islamic theocratic regime has targeted American and European citizens with dual Iranian citizenship for spying and "corruption on earth."
Iran & Taliban Condemn U.S. for Violence in Afghanistan

January 29, 2021

Following a meeting in Tehran, officials from the security apparatus of the Taliban and Iran's Islamic revolutionary theocracy have closed ranks in public statements blaming the United States for the protracted, decades-long violence in Afghanistan.
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Egyptian Terrorists Harbored by Turkey

January 29, 2021

The U.S. Treasury Department designation of two Turkey-based leaders of the Egypt Movement, Harakat Sawa'd Misr, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, highlights NATO-member Turkey as an active safe haven Islamist terrorist groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, al-Qaeda, IS, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Jihadists Use China's Repression of Uyghur’s as Mobilization Tool

January 26, 2021

According to Small Wars Journal, Al-Qaeda (AQ) is taking the lead with other jihadist groups to internationalize the Chinese government's repression of their Uyghur Muslim population, with AQ collaborating with the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in China to radicalize and mobilize global jihadist support for the territorial secession and political independence of Uyghurs in what the TIP calls East Turkistan.
IS Pits China Against U.S. Using Uighur Muslims

January 26, 2021

A review of IS recruiting and propaganda platforms concerning China's widely documented repression of its Uighur Muslim population, reveals that the Islamist terror group is playing the geopolitical long game, stepping back from criticism of China as a tactic for supporting Beijing's displacement of the United States as a global power.
Turkey Continues Islamist Assault on Freedom of Expression

January 20, 2021

Turkey’s government announced fines against Twitter, Pinterest, and other social media companies for failing to assign a local representative tasked with content management and data collection according to a new Turkish law.
Nigeria's Islamist Extremist Problem May Herald Global Problem with Jihadists

January 19, 2021

Srdja Trifkovic writes in Chronicles that the steady expansion of Islamist extremist ideology and violence in oil-rich Nigeria over the past two decades has made Africa's largest economy a crucial clearing house for the dissemination of broader jihadist activities, both across the African Continent and around the world.
The Telegraph: Islamic Laws Limit Women's Work Rights in Bangladesh

January 19, 2021

According to The Telegraph, the state's application of Islamic law in the field of labor rights in Bangladesh has produced limitations on women's rights to work, including a recent high court ruling that cites menstruation as the cause for a ban on women from working as marriage registrars.
Iranian Regime Signals Dissent Brings Execution

January 13, 2021

According to The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Iran’s Islamic theocratic regime signaled that it will not tolerate dissent, announcing preparations to execute a second national team wrestler on charges widely decried by global human rights organizations as an egregious violations of civil and political liberties.
Islamist Extremists Turn US Capitol Protests Into Jihadi Mobilization Tool

January 13, 2021

Various Islamist extremist and terror groups are using last week’s assault on the US Capitol as a jihadist mobilization tool, with al-Qaeda, IS, and Syrian jihadists propagandizing the US political unrest as evidence of Western hypocrisy and the weakness of democracy.