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Tunisia Bans Islamic Face Coverings in Aftermath of Lethal Violence
July 17, 2019
Tunisia’s Prime Minister has issued an executive order banning the full Islamic face veil (niqab) in public institutions, following a niqab-disguised suicide bomber perpetrating the third in a sequence of lethal Islamic State attacks in the North African country.
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Remaining IS Forces Target Christians in Northeast Syria
July 17, 2019
Islamic State (IS) forces perpetrated a suicide-bombing attack near a church in a Christian-majority town in northeast Syria, indicating the Islamist group’s sustained jihadist objectives against Christian communities.
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Trauma Remains Challenge for Children Freed from IS Captivity
July 17, 2019
According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), rehabilitation from psychological and physical trauma suffered by ethnic and religious minority children and infants liberated from Islamic State (IS) captivity in Iraq remains a long-term challenge.
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Turkey Recruits North American Muslim Youth with Free Travel
July 17, 2019
Turken, a US-based foundation funded and staffed by family members of and others with connections to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is providing free trips for North American Muslim youth to Turkey to learn an official anti-Western Islamist civilizational narrative.
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Data Suggest Decline in Support for Iran’s Islamist Model
July 17, 2019
Data on jobs creation, income inequality, provision of health care, and quality-of-life metrics in Iran point to the Islamist regime’s creation of class of economic oligarchs and religio-political cronies, leading to projections for free elections that suggest 70 percent of voters would reject the continuation of the Islamic revolutionary model.
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