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Islamist Bus Driver Sparks Debate About Islamism in France
May 29, 2019
A bus driver who refused to pick up two female passengers because of what he considered to be their immodest dress, followed by Facebook’s censuring of criticism about the arbitrary influence of Islamist norms in public life, has sparked a national debate in France about creeping Islamization in society.
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US Charges Kentucky Imam in Murder-for-Hire Plot
May 29, 2019
The US government has charged the chief cleric in the Islamic Center of Lexington, Kentucky, and two others with conspiring in a murder-for-hire plot, which included meetings at the Islamic Center and a discussion about the imam’s issuing of an Islamic legal decree (fatwa) to authorize the hit.
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Muslim American Society Video Spurs Concerns
May 29, 2019
A video on the website of the Muslim American Society, a national, grassroots organization committed to “imparting knowledge about Islam” across the US, shows children discussing jihadi martyrdom and decapitation of enemies and has raised concerns about the group’s messaging and objectives within America and globally.
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UN Launches Program to Detect Returning Foreign Fighters
May 29, 2019
Highlighting the major issue of foreign terrorist fighters fleeing the former territory of the Islamic State, the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism has launched a Countering Terrorist Travel Programme through which countries can use an innovative software system to detect and disrupt terrorist travel.
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Opponents of Islamist Terrorism Need Broad Approach
May 29, 2019
The failure of military approaches to defeating global Islamist terrorism points to the determinant significance of socioeconomic and cultural policies that can erode the appeal of Islamist ideology and of the political will to take punitive action against countries that are demonstrated, systematic, global exporters of violent Islamism.
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