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New Year’s Eve Machete Attack in NY Times Square Reveals Islamist Connections
January 03, 2023
US federal and New York (NY) state inquiries underway into the machete attack against police officers in NY’s Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration has revealed the assailant’s sympathies for radical Islamist ideology, based on his handwritten diary detailing his desire to join the Taliban in order to die as a jihadist martyr, with the attack indicating the seriousness of NY law enforcement concerns about an Islamic State aligned video encouraging line wolf attacks.
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IS Gets a Boost from Turkey’s Courts
January 03, 2023
The decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals to overturn the case of a Turkish jihadist twice convicted for disseminating IS propaganda on social media sites and for planning to travel to Syria to join IS is a boost to Islamist terror organizations, since the judiciary ruled that social-media dissemination and promotion of IS materials is not an offense under the country’s counter-terrorism laws.
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Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Regime cited for Ongoing Religious Freedom Violations in New USCIRF Report
January 03, 2023
According to a new report released by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the reconfiguration in the balance of power favoring Saudi Arabia’s ruling monarchy at the expense of the fundamentalist Sunni Islamic religious establishment has led to a revised form of Islamist authoritarianism that continues to feature egregious religious freedom violations against non-confirming Muslims.
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Benin’s Uptick in Jihadi Violence Points to Spreading Islamist Extremist Threat in West Africa
January 03, 2023
The sharp uptick in intimidation and violence in the Africa country of Benin by jihadist groups affiliated with IS and Al-Qaeda points to the spreading threat of Islamist extremism across West Africa’s Sahel region, from inland countries to the coastal countries that affect both Africa’s economies and international trade and commerce, and state security responses focused on detentions and military activities are causing human rights violations that, according to some experts on conflict prevention, may worsen social grievances that are contritions to jihadist recruitment.
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New Report on British Counter-Extremism Program Criticizes Funding to Pro-Islamist Groups
January 03, 2023
Leaked details of a forthcoming report on the British government’s flagship counter-extremism program, Prevent, indicate critique of failures in due diligence over funding for groups meant to prevent youth radicalization recruitment, given that support has been given to pro-Islamist organizations in civil society, with additional criticism level led at the Prevent program for minimizing Islamist extremism versus the focus rightwing extremism.
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