Boko Haram’s Advance Puts Nigeria’s Capital at Risk

May 04, 2021

Nigeria’s jihadist group Boko Haram has captured a key city in the country’s Middle Belt Region, hoisting the group’s flag and taking local women as hostages, with this most recent advance in territorial control by Boko Haram fighters putting the capital of the oil-rich West African country at risk of Islamist siege and capture. 

New French Legislation based on Jihadist Website Activity

May 03, 2021

France’s Parliament has introduced counter-terrorism legislation to allow for algorithmic analysis of jihadist platforms and social media apps due to the multi-year pattern of Islamist extremist terror attacks in France that have demonstrated that jihadist websites are significant for predicting radicalization-recruitment and operational activities.

Saudi Drug Seizure Reveals Hezbollah’s Narcoterror Capacity

May 03, 2021

Evidence of Hezbollah’s narcoterrorism global network was highlighed by the recent seizures of produce shipments in major ports in Saudi Arabia from Lebanon containing Captagon amphetamine capsules, similar to those reported by European and a South American security authorities, revealing the group’s use of narcotics trade to finance international jihadism.

German Governing Bloc Aims to Counter Spread of Political Islamism

April 28, 2021

The conservative bloc in Germany's coalition government has proposed measures to limit the spread of Islamist extremist ideology and violence, including a termination of all state subsidies to German Islamic groups monitored by the country's intelligence authority, full transparency in foreign funding to mosque associations, and research into the misuse of religious freedom protections for domestic and foreign Islamist activism.

Pakistan’s Islamists use Holocaust to Push Blasphemy Against Islam

Seth J. Frantzman

April 27, 2021

The Jerusalem Post reports that the recent anti-French protests across Pakistan by Islamist extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik, for what they condemn as blasphemy against Islam’s prophet Mohammed to justify last year’s murder of a French school teacher, is following a common trope whereby Islamist regimes and jihadist non-state groups use the Holocaust, equating their demand from Western countries to impose blasphemy laws against Islam with Holocaust denial laws, while simultaneously supporting Holocaust denial under Islamist regimes.