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Al Qaeda Leadership Transition May Lead to Renewal of Islamic Terror Group
October 05, 2022
Al-Qaeda (AQ) is in the process of major changes to its leadership succession model, with succession ambiguity possibly creating a shift towards leaders with a globalized vision of the terror group’s landscape that takes advantage of renewed hospitable hosting in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, leading to organizational and ideological renewal and resilience for AQ in a crowded, competitive field of Islamist extremist organizations and to continuing threats to international security.
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Taliban Sharia Regime Evokes Expanding Resistance in Afghanistan
September 28, 2022
The sharia state imposed on Afghanistan by the Taliban since their seizure of control in Summer 2021 is generating resistance from a diverse constellation of ethnic, religious, and gender segments of society united by their shared rejection of the Taliban’s dogmatic Islamism as a social control mechanism, violent jihadist practices, ties to Pakistan as a client state, and commitment to Pushtun ethnic hegemony, all of which are perceived by opposition forces as a distortion of Islam.
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Leicester Violence Shows Islamist Extremists Using Social Media to Amplify & Provoke Religious Hatred
September 28, 2022
Recent Muslim-Hindu soccer-related violence in the central United Kingdom (UK) city of Leicester was amplified by anti-Hindu social media attacks by preachers and activists on Islamist social media platforms which traffic, represented by the incendiary discourse of Islamist YouTube celebrity Mohammed Hijab.
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Benin Is Latest Addition to Jihadists’ Expanding Operations in West Africa
September 28, 2022
Benin has become the latest West African littoral state to be pulled into the expanding jihadist violence in that part of the Continent, with recent attacks by the Islamic State militants adding to the deterioration in the country’s security environment caused by al Qaeda operations, and, taken as a whole, pointing to Islamist extremism as a a threat to state durability and societal cohesion.
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Iran Training Afghans in Syria underscores Transnationalism of Islamist Radicalism & Violence
September 28, 2022
Iran’s Islamist regime is now provided drone training for Afghans in the Shiite foreign-fighter Fatemiyoun Brigade fighting in Syria, with Iran-supported Hezbollah militants from Lebanon leading the training, all of which points to the active transnational networks of Iran in promoting Islamist recruitment, radicalization, and violence.
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