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Lebanon’s Islamist Policies Lead to Women-Only Beaches
November 29, 2018
Lebanon’s establishment of women-only beaches reflects the growing cultural influence of conservative Islamism in Lebanon, especially under the significant political and social influence of Shiite Islamist militant group Hezbollah.
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Islamist Extremist Entities Retain Depth, Scope
November 29, 2018
In the 17 years since the 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the US, Islamist extremist groups have successfully used social media as a form of guerrilla warfare while also spreading a global recruitment narrative about the strength and resolve of jihadism in the face of otherwise overwhelming conventional military odds.
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Militant Islamism Shows Strength in Afghan City
November 29, 2018
A suicide bombing attack on a protest and bomb attacks on several schools in the Afghan city of Jalalabad are raising questions about the capacity of Afghanistan's security institutions to control the country in the face of a range of jihadist groups committed to making the country an epicenter of global militant Islamism.
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Al-Qaeda Is Stronger than Ever
November 29, 2018
17 years since it perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US homeland, al-Qaeda is stronger than ever, due to a combination of the group’s ability to successfully plant its Islamist ideology among impoverished populations in failed states and to blowback from US military strategies carried out under the umbrella of counterterrorism policy.
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Indonesian Province Imposes Gender, Sexuality Restrictions in Dining
November 29, 2018
Sharia enforcement in Indonesia’s autonomous Aceh Province has taken a new turn with the reissuing of a local government order to restaurant owners to bar unmarried men and women from dining together and to ban the hiring of lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender people as waitstaff.
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