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Drone Killings of IS & AQ Leadership Reveal Resilience of Competing Islamist Groups
August 23, 2022
The spate of killings of top al-Qaeda (AQ) and Islamic State (IS) leaders by US drone strikes opens up a window into the capacity for adaptation and resilience of the two main Islamist groups competing for global dominance, indicating that both groups have developed the capacity to move beyond their founding models of charismatic leadership and to build the kind of institutional durability and cross-generational staying power that makes AQ and IS Islamism an ongoing threat to global peace and order.
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Intra-Islamist Competition Paralyzes Iraq
August 17, 2022
Factional infighting among competing Shiite Islamist groups has left Iraq paralyzed without a government since the country’s parliamentary election last October 2021, with Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr leading a socio-political bloc of Islamic nationalists opposed to the broad, pro-Iran coalition of political and para-military groups loyal to former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Taliban’s Battle for Afghanistan Has Sustained Decades of a Global Islamism
August 17, 2022
The one-year anniversary of the US-led peace building coalition in Afghanistan that left the Taliban in control of the South Asian country is a reminder of the staying power and contagion effects of the Islamist group for global jihadis, since the Taliban’s successful ouster of the Soviet Union in the late-1980s inspired jihadists worldwide to stand up against superpowers, just as the current a Taliban Islamic Emirate is viewed as an example for emulation by Islamists on multiple continents.
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Islamist Sectarian Violence Comes to US With New Mexico Killings
August 17, 2022
According to Time, the police investigation into the killing of four Muslim immigrant men by a Faith Muslim immigrant man in Albuquerque, New Mexico suggests that the perpetrator, a Sunni Muslim, murdered the victims because they were Shiite Muslims, suggesting that the Islamist sectarianism is now being globalized to the United States.
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Taliban Celebrate Anniversary of Control in Afghanistan as Jihadi Defeat of West
August 15, 2022
Afghanistan’s Islamist Taliban regime celebrated one year in power in Afghanistan as the fulfillment of jihadist responsibility to oust the US-led Western peace building coalition from the South Asian country.
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