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IS Prison Attack in Nigeria Highlights Resilience & Adaptation of Islamist Threat to State Security
July 11, 2022
IS militants in Nigeria claimed responsibility for a prison break that saw almost all the inmates escape into the capital city coming on the heels of an armed assault on a presidential convoy demonstrating the expanding cooperation between jihadists and other non-state groups as well as pointing to the resilience and adaptation of violent Islamist groups committed to the overthrow of the international order based in sovereign states.
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IS Longterm Impact Shows in Challenges of Reintegrating Children Repatriated from Caliphate
July 11, 2022
The challenges of reintegrating IS foreign-fighter children repatriated from the caliphate war zone to Kyrgyzstan are indicative of the broader, longterm damage, across Central Asia and beyond, perpetrated by the Islamist terror group, as home governments and societies are asked to provide a combination of psycho-social, educational, and economic support needed to reintegrate children traumatized by the experience of the IS caliphate.
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Turkey’s Islamo-Nationalists Threaten NATO Allies in
July 06, 2022
Turkey’s Islamist President and his nationalist cohort are threatening NATO Allies Greece and America with military action in the Eastern Mediterranean, rejecting the former’s sovereignty and condemning US military bases in Greece as a “direct threat” to Turkey, with Ankara’s Islamo-nationalist saber rattling articulated as Turkey’s push-back against the “infidel West.”
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UAE Sharia Giant Acquires Majority Stake in Major UK Sharia Real Estate Financial Company
July 06, 2022
United Arab Emirates (UAE) multi-sector sharia-compliant investment company Gulf Islamic Investments has acquired a majority stake in OFFA, the UK’s first sharia-compliant real estate bridge financier, a move signaling the growing important of Islamic finance in the UK and aiming to grow the sharing-complaint real estate market in England’s city of Birmingham, which has the highest concentration of Muslims living in the United
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Malaysia’s Religious Affairs Minister Warns of Consequences for Insulting Islam
July 06, 2022
Malaysia’s Religious Affairs Minister has publicly warned that insults to Islam will produce “untoward incidents” in Malaysia and abroad, providing implicit support for blasphemy laws curbing speech freedoms in the name of respecting Islam, while he also reiterated that Islam and national identity are inseparable in the Southeast Asian nation in which Sunni Islam is the official state religion.
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