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Egyptian Imam Preaches Anti-Semitism
December 23, 2019
Preaching in Egypt's mosques and use of technology to transmit sermons continues to involve hate speech and an Islamist radical rejection of inter-faith tolerance, expressed in a recent internet video of an Egyptian imam preaching anti-Semitic language about Jews as treacherous and untrustworthy.
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Islamists Win with Hezbollah-Backed Lebanese President
December 23, 2019
The Lebanese Parliament's election of a new president, whose appointment turned on support from Iran's proxy Hezbollah, is a sectarian victory for Islamists in Lebanon and an outcome that will likely impede the country's efforts to secure economic assistance from the United States.
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Policy of UK Education Watchdog Agency Shows Importance of Followup on Islamic School Radicalization Cleanup
December 17, 2019
The United Kingdom's (UK) Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) has been conducting regular site inspections and curriculum reviews for an Islamic school in Birmingham whose textbooks promoted IS and promoted anti-Christian and anti-Jewish attitudes and behaviors.
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Malaysian Islamic Summit Points to Sustained Effort by Muslim Brotherhood to Exert Global Influence
December 17, 2019
The principles and state leaders affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are the driving force behind an approaching Islamic summit to discuss political, cultural, economic, and defense cooperation built on the MB goals of nation-building according to sharia law.
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Human Rights Watch Reports on Widespread Abuses in Quranic Schools
December 17, 2019
A newly released Human Rights Watch report on Quranic schools in the West African nation of Senegal documents widespread, systematic abuse, neglect, and endangerment of children in the Islamic schools
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Women Resort to Fake Marriages to Escape Islamist Extremists in Syria's Idlib Province
December 13, 2019
The imposition of extensive, sharia-law restrictions on women's rights and freedoms imposed by the al-Qaeda-affiliated, and then, IS-affiliated, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in control of Syria's Idlib Province has led to women to resort to fake marriages with men across the border in Turkey, a path fraught with dangers of illegal border crossings, cash payments, and possible confinement by the new "spouse."
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Islamist Hardliners Use British Blasphemy Laws as Tool for Religious Discrimination & Intimidation
December 11, 2019
The use of de facto blasphemy logic by hardliners in the Bristol Muslim communities to intimidate, discriminate against, and silence exponents of religious diversity is a growing threat to Britain’s public order and security, as evidenced in the steady rise in cases of violence against religious minorities.
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Global Threat of Radical Islamism & White Extremism Are Threats on Different Scale
September 04, 2019
The undeniable societal threats caused by the hate and lethality of rising white supremacist groups worldwide dwarfs in comparison to the scale, impact, and durability of radical Islamist ideology and attendant violence, and some Western security experts are beginning to warn against losing sight of this differential in threats.
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Rising Islamist Violence in West Africa Threatens Survival of Burkina Faso’s Christian Communities
August 28, 2019
Burkina Faso’s Christian communities face an existential threat from the intensifying, targeted violence by a range of extremist Islamist groups who have spread their jihadist activities to yet another West African country, in an effort to impose sharia law in the region.
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New Al-Shabaab Video Calls for Worldwide Jihad Against Foreign Enemies and Muslim Leaders of "Disbelief"
August 20, 2019
Al-Shabaab, the Somali-based branch of al Qaeda, is calling for Muslims worldwide to support a twin-track jihadist strategy for a global caliphate.