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IS Adapts Digital Strategy With Malign Activities Aimed at Domestic Disruption Inside America
July 27, 2020
The Islamic State (IS) is adapting its digital strategy to augment its conventional Islamist radicalization and recruitment platforms, with new hacking practices and disinformation platforms aiming systematically to weaken America from within by aggravating divisions related to current social justice debates.
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Profile of IS Leader Reveals Terrorist Training, Genocide Policies
July 21, 2020
A recent profile of the leader who assumed the helm of the Islamic State (IS) since October 2019 reveals an individual with a history of terrorist training in al-Qaeda and, then, IS, as well as a record of genocidal policies towards religious minorities, and a commitment to rebuilding the IS in its core caliphate territories and beyond.
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French Muslim Leaders Criticize PM’s Warning Against Radical Islamism & Separatism
July 21, 2020
Muslim leaders criticized France's new prime minister for warning against radical Islamism as a threat to the country's security, echoing earlier cautions by the French president about Islamist violence and identity politics as a threat political values of freedom and equality.
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UK Debates Use of Islamism As Distinctive Ideological Term
July 21, 2020
UK counter-terrorism authorities debating whether to reject Islamism as a term for describing terrorist attacks in the name of Islam risk missing the deliberate ideological principles associated with Islamism, a project of political hegemony and violence that represents a clear and present danger for non-Muslins and Muslims alike.
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Contemporary Iranian Islamism Has Long History Combining Anti-Israel & Anti-Jewish Discourse and Policy
July 21, 2020
The recent statement by Iran's Supreme Leader, the senior-most Islamic cleric who is also the head of state for the theocratic regime, calling on Muslims worldwide to wage a jihad on Israel, combines a long policy trajectory back to the mid-20th century with anti-Semitic discursive references to the "final solution" for Israel.
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