Religious Extremism

US Lawmakers Push to Halt Support for Nuclear Saudi Arabia

December 13, 2018

A group of US Republican Senators called on the White House to suspend cooperation with Saudi Arabia on the development of nuclear energy capacity for the Islamic theocracy in the wake of the Wahhabi regime’s killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Hardline Islamists Disrupt Pakistan in Blasphemy Protests

December 13, 2018

Hardline Islamist groups have disrupted Pakistan in three days of protest over the acquittal of a Christian woman on charges of blasphemy against Islam’s prophet Mohammed, demanding that the government prevent her from traveling outside Pakistan.
Pakistan Regime Capitalizes on Fallout from Khashoggi Murder

December 13, 2018

Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister has capitalized on Saudi Arabia's need to shore up support from fellow Islamist regimes in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Pakistan stood publicly with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and soon after announced a $6 billion aid package to the struggling Pakistani economy.
Austria Bans Turkish Nationalist-Islamist Symbols

December 12, 2018

The Foreign Ministry of Turkey's Islamist government issued an official condemnation of Austria's amendment to its 2014 Symbols Act adding Turkish signs indicating support for fascism and of the Muslim Brotherhood to the list of prohibited symbols.
Khashoggi Killing Reveals Face of Wahhabi Extremism

December 10, 2018

The continued international focus on the killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi has revealed the degree to which the Wahhabi Islamist culture driving the Mideast's largest Islamic theocracy extends to foreign policy behaviors that fly in the face of international law and human rights.
Algeria Implements Niqab Ban for Public Sector Workers

December 10, 2018

Algerian authorities have implemented a ban on wearing the niqab by public-sector workers, citing concerns regarding identification as the reason behind the policy.
Khashoggi Debacle Escalates Islamist Competition in Mideast

December 07, 2018

The continuing fallout from the likely role that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) played in the gruesome murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is already showing signs of escalating the competition among the Middle East’s three giant Islamist theocratic regimes of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.
Iran Television Features Children in Jihad Propaganda Show

December 07, 2018

An Iranian children’s television show recently featured children singing jihadist songs about martyrdom and nationalism and being introduced to military equipment by an adult commentator, in a segment of the show that ran a day after the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on an Iranian paramilitary group and its financiers.
US Imposes New Sanctions on Iran Networks of Child Soldiers

December 07, 2018

The US Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on a network of Iranian financial institutions and corporations that has been involved in recruitment, radicalization, and training of children to fight as jihadist soldiers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) activities in Syria.
Khashoggi Murder Reveals Reality of Saudi Autocracy

December 07, 2018

The circumstances surrounding the death of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi have laid bare the reality of the country's political regime, whose leadership continues to crush public critique and dissent from the party-line collaboration between the country's monarchical autocracy and the Wahhabi religious establishment.