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Attack on Burkina Faso Church Highlights Jihadist Efforts to Fuel Intercommunal Conflict in West Africa
February 25, 2020
The suspected jihadist perpetrators of a recent attack by armed gunmen at a Protestant church in Burkina Faso underscores the sustained efforts by local al Qaeda and Islamic State militias to politicize ethno-religious, tribal, and urban-rural cleavages, in order to advance the project of Islamist expansion and control over West Africa.
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Council of Europe Resolution Encourages Best Practices on Marriage for UK Sharia Councils
February 25, 2020
The 47 member-states of the Council of Europe passed a resolution calling on British state authorities to take administrative measures and public awareness campaigns to ensure that the country's sharia councils, open to British Muslims for issues of family, inheritance, and commercial issues, are operating in full compliance with state laws that ensure the full range of protections for equality before the law for women.
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Jihadist Groups Build Unified Front to Solidify West Africa and Sahel as Sharia Region
February 25, 2020
West Africa and the Sahel are emerging as a regional space of innovation in jihadist tactics, as groups like al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and their local affiliates are putting aside competition in place of a united front with the common goal of consolidating the enormous swathe of territory on the African Continent as a sharia-ruled, multi-state territory.
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Qatar Uses Soft Power Influence Operations in U.S.
February 25, 2020
The Mideast monarchy of Qatar continues to expand its soft power influence-Wahhabist network operations inside the United States, including huge financial support for think tank and higher education programs, along with professional lobbying activities.
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Afghan Government Supporters Fear US-Taliban Deal May Lead to Renewed Civil War
February 19, 2020
Local supporters of the government of Afghanistan are expressing concerns that the negotiated agreement between the United States and the Taliban for a gradual US troop withdrawal from the South Asian country may quickly devolved into another civil war in Afghanistan and an expansion of sharia-based Taliban control.
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