Violence and Security

Canada's Multiculturalism Approach Is Viewed as Opportunity for Islamist Extremism

December 21, 2015

The Ontario branch of al-Huda, the religious school that San Bernardino killer Tashfeen Malik attended in Pakistan, has become a lightning rod for security concerns in Canada surrounding the country's multiculturalism policies.
IS Exports Caliphate Terror to Southwest Asia

December 21, 2015

The Islamic State ("IS") has made significant inroads in expanding the footprint of its caliphate into Southwest Asia, establishing the Khorasan Province in Afghanistan as a base to project into Iran and Central Asian states and exporting the brutal Islamist practices of beheadings, hostage-taking, and extortive taxes.
US-Funded Charities Call on Taxpayers to "Care for Refugees"

December 21, 2015

Michael Patrick Leahy writes that a recent summit hosted by Christian charity World Relief, which is receiving $1 billion per year from the US Refugee Resettlement Program, that called for an "evangelical response" in caring for refugees entering the US from the Middle East and Africa is part of a general public-relations push to continue this flow of federal aid.
IS-Hamas Cooperation Exacerbates Mideast Instability

December 21, 2015

The alliance of convenience in the Egyptian Sinai between traditionally-opposed Islamist radical groups, Hamas and the Islamic State ("IS"), with support for the former from Qatar and Turkey, is heightening instability for both Israel and Turkey and threatening to radicalize Palestinian Muslims in Gaza.
Internet Footprint of US Extremist Imam Raises First Amendment and Security Dilemmas

December 21, 2015

Calls by some security experts for internet providers to limit the massive digital footprint of Islamist extremism by the late US jihadi Anwar al-Awlaki are raising complex questions about balancing First Amendment protections against counter-terrorism priorities, which some American Muslim activists are reducing to religious discrimination.
US and Russia Cooperate in United Nations to Strangle IS Finance for Terror

December 18, 2015

The UN Security Council adopted a US- and Russia-sponsored resolution seeking to strangle the funding streams - from oil sales, antiquities plunder, slave trafficking, and ransom and taxes on religious minorities - by which the Islamic State ("IS") finances its jihad terrorism and caliphate.
IS Is Globalizing the Footprint of Violent Sharia

December 17, 2015

The deliberate and steady cultivation and consolidation of regional affiliates with declared organizational loyalty and operational integration into the Islamic State ("IS") has occurred within the past 18 months, establishing a robust, global footprint of violent Islamism from the Mideast to Africa to the Caucasus and Southwest Asia.
Internet Platforms Agree to Remove "Hate Speech" in Germany

December 17, 2015

Time reports that, amid rising concerns among German officials about the growing number of "hateful messages" regarding migrants posted to social media, internet companies Google, Facebook, and Twitter have agreed with the German Government to remove such "hate speech" from their platforms, though it is unclear how broad the definition of such speech will be.
Brand: Renew Discussion on US Intelligence Gathering

December 16, 2015

Member of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Rachel Brand writes that, following the San Bernardino attacks, there must be a renewed, measured debate over the balance between civil liberties and intelligence gathering, and asserts that the US must equip its intelligence services with sufficient authority to detect and pursue terrorist threats.
US Politicians Denounce Immigration Policies as "Hate Speech"

December 16, 2015

As debate over the policy positions of Republican presidential contenders on Muslim immigration continues in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings, The Hartford Courant reports that Connecticut political and religious figures have condemned some of these positions as "hate speech" and are raising concerns of retaliation against Muslims due to the attacks.