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Turkey-Saudi Diplomacy Signals Possible Rapprochement Between Two Key Mideast Islamist Regimes
June 27, 2022
This week’s visit between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan signals a possible rapprochement between two of the Middle East’s key Islamist regimes with ambivalent relationships vis-a-via Israel and rocky relations the United States, in what May be a move beyond the Riyadh-Ankara rupture towards energy, trade, cultural, and security cooperation that unites the two Sunni Islamist states.
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FBI Reports Iran’s Plan for Cyber Attack Against Boston’s Children’s Hospital
June 24, 2022
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned recently that the Bureau’s discovery last year of a plan by Iran’s Islamist regime to perpetrate a cyber attack against Boston’s Children Hospital is indicative of the sharp increase in Tehran’s efforts to utilize cyber activities to cripple US critical infrastructure and for WEBINT (web intelligence) aimed at gaining access to data useful for recruiting assets and for compromising the personal and corporate security of Western interests.
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International Union of Muslim Scholars Pushes for Broad Restrictions in Free Speech
June 22, 2022
The Qatar-based International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has announced that it will advocate for both the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to enact broad restrictions on free speech, with the international organization of Muslim Islamic theologians arguing that recent comments by a member of a India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) about Islam's prophet Mohammed justify banning all speech deemed insulting to religions.
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UN Flags Transnational Expansion of Radical Islamism into Resource-Rich DRC
June 22, 2022
UN security experts are flagging the growing transnational operational networks of IS into the Central African Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), warning that the IS cooperation with the Islamist militant Allied Defence Forces (ADF) is destabilizing the DRC-Uganda border, generating radicalization and recruitment into the broader Central African region, and is threatening the takeover of rich natural resource riches and trade and commercial networks of the DRC, the Continent’s second largest country.
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Rohingya Muslim Refugee Plight Worsened by Islamist Extremists’ Violence in Refugee Camps
June 20, 2022
The nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape ethno-religious cleansing by Myanmar’s military regime are facing new threats inside refugee camps, in the form of targeted murders of Muslim human rights leaders and narcotics peddling by the Islamist militant group Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), whose fundamentalist “Movement of the Faith” demands conformity to extremist Islamism.
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