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Qatari Media Incites Violence Against Israel
April 03, 2023
One of the main newspapers in the Qatar's Islamic monarchy, the online Arabic-English al-Watan, has run a recent article inciting violence against Israel, calling on the Middle East's Arab populations to mobilize against the government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in "a return to the Quran" to establish an Islamic regime in the geography of Israel and Palestine.
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Paraguay's Move to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorists Is Wake-Up Call for Broader Security Threats from Islamist Operations in South America
April 03, 2023
The recent legislative move by the government of Paraguay to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization reflects concerning trends about the broader Islamist threats to Latin America's security environment, in which weak democratic regimes, political corruption, and dynamic criminal networks (the profile for Paraguay) have provided fertile space for a host of Islamist extremist groups engaged in radicalization, recruitment, financing, and violence in the region and transnationally.
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Rocket Exchanges Involving US Military in Syria Underscore Iran’s Support for Multiple Islamist Groups
April 03, 2023
Last week’s Iran-made-drone attack against a U.S. mission support site in northeast Syria escalated into a series of rocket exchanges between US military personnel and Iran-supported Islamist militias in northeast Syria, underscoring the international reach of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, in the form of sustained support for a myriad of Islamist extremist entities still operating in northern Syria, including groups of afghan, Pakistani, Lebanese, and Syrian origin.
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Turkish Human Rights Report Slams EU for “State-Sponsored Islamophobia”
March 29, 2023
A special report published by the Human Rights Committee of Turkey’s Parliament slammed multiple European countries and leaders for “state-sponsored Islamophobia,” diluting Islam in Europe, and covering up right-wing attacks as terrorist attacks Muslims, while the same report carefully avoided the designation of terrorist for organizations such as IS and al-Qaeda, carefully wordsmithing references to their attacks in Europe as reactions to anti-Muslim sentiment.
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Belgian Security Arrest Islamists Planning Multi-Location Attack
March 29, 2023
Security authorities in Belgium made multiple arrests in Brussels and Antwerp of individuals identified as Islamists, on suspicion of planning a terrorists attack on multiple locations in the European country.