Religious Extremism

Turkey's Islamists Signal Close Ties with Muslim Brotherhood as Chief Imam Attends MB Leader Qaradawi's Funeral

October 10, 2022

Turkey's Islamist regime signaled its continuing close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood by sending the NATO member's Chief Imam, Ali Erbas, who heads the state's Director of Religious Affairs, to represent Turkey at the funeral in Qatar of the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) leading ideologue and cleric Usuf al-Qaradawi, an advocate of suicide bombings and other forms of jihadist violence worldwide.
Burkina Faso Coup Highlights Destabilizing Impacts of Islamist Extremism

October 10, 2022

Perpetrators of the recent coup in the West African state of Burkina Faso identified the previous regime's failure to counter the security threats of active Islamist extremism as causal factor for the coup, and also hinted that the new military government will be inviting anti-jihadist support from Russian paramilitary contract or Wagner Group, in a series of developments pointing to the regional and international destabilizing impacts of radical Islamism.
Al Qaeda Leadership Transition May Lead to Renewal of Islamic Terror Group

October 05, 2022

Al-Qaeda (AQ) is in the process of major changes to its leadership succession model, with succession ambiguity possibly creating a shift towards leaders with a globalized vision of the terror group’s landscape that takes advantage of renewed hospitable hosting in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, leading to organizational and ideological renewal and resilience for AQ in a crowded, competitive field of Islamist extremist organizations and to continuing threats to international security.
Taliban Sharia Regime Evokes Expanding Resistance in Afghanistan

September 28, 2022

The sharia state imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban since their seizure of control in Summer 2021 is generating resistance from a diverse constellation of ethnic, religious, and gender segments of society united by their shared rejection of the Taliban’s dogmatic Islamism as a social control mechanism, violent jihadist practices, ties to Pakistan as a client state, and commitment to Pushtun ethnic hegemony, all of which are perceived by opposition forces as a distortion of Islam.
Iran Training Afghans in Syria underscores Transnationalism of Islamist Radicalism & Violence

September 28, 2022

Iran’s Islamist regime is now provided drone training for Afghans in the Shiite foreign-fighter Fatemiyoun Brigade fighting in Syria, with Iran-supported Hezbollah militants from Lebanon leading the training, all of which points to the active transnational networks of Iran in promoting Islamist recruitment, radicalization, and violence.
Iran's Morality Police Spark Protests After Woman's Death for Violating Hijab Rules

September 20, 2022

Widespread demonstrations have erupted in Iran as protest against the death of a young women in custody of Iran's "Guidance Patrols," the morality police that monitor and punish women for not adhering to the country's strict sharia policy of hijab headscarves, with in-person and online demonstrators condemning the morality police as responsible for her death over her alleged violations of the Islamist regime's hijab policy.
Political Islamism Has Deep Roots in Philippines

September 14, 2022

According to eurasiareview.com, political Islamism in the Philippines is connected to the country’s long history of decolonization activism and global geopolitical competition, and while Haiti al Islamic moments have died away from ideological extremism violence, contemporary forms of political Islamism in the island nation have strong connections to radical jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Malaysia, making the Philippines a security flashpoint in the volatile East Asian space.
Taliban's Islamic Emirate Pitch Islamization & Censorship of Media in Afghanistan as Positive Reform

September 12, 2022

The leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have undertaken a massive restructuring of the country's entire range of media platforms and outlets according to the tenets of sharia law, creating an interlocking set of government regulatory institutions that monitor media for deviations from state-sanctioned Islamism and that impose, according to international and local media and human rights groups, closures, detentions, and torture of journalists deemed non-conforming with the new Islamization reforms.
NATO Member Turkey Intensifies Islamization of Armed Forces

September 07, 2022

The ruling Islamist regime in NATO member-state Turkey is intensifying the Islamization of the country's armed forces in the runup to Spring 2023 parliamentary and presidential elections, with measures ranging from the systematic purging of pro-NATO and pro-West officers from the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), the assignment of oversight responsibilities to jihadist-connected, private miitary contractor SADAT, which reports directly to Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the increasing interpenetration of the TAF with the state's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).
Anti-Regime Islamists Controlling Northern Syria Ban Married Women from Education in Latest Violation of Women's Human Rights

September 07, 2022

The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham movement that runs the Syrian Salvation Government controlling northern Syria in opposition to the al-Assad regime has announced a ban on education for married women, with this latest violation of women's human rights under the jihadist surveillance-and-control regime affecting women of all ages, particularly given the sharp rise in child brides since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.