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IS Proves Resilient Threat to Global Security
November 28, 2017
Though anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition forces have terminated the IS caliphate in Iraq and Syria, a new Israeli think tank report warns of resilient IS activity localized in Libya and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and that highly skilled, ideologically committed IS foreign fighters pose a long-term threat to stability in their Eurasian and North African countries of origin.
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Erdogan Condemns West for Indifference to Muslims
November 27, 2017
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the West for "Islamophobia, neo-Nazism, and racism" at an economic and trade summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), charging that Western governments are indifferent to humanitarian crises affecting Muslims.
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Jihadist Kills Nigeria Mosque Worshipers
November 27, 2017
A teenage suicide bomber blew up a mosque on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon in the most recent high-casualty attack bearing all the hallmarks of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, which continues its guerrilla war to spread sharia law to all of East Africa.
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Report Points to Child Sex Abuse in Pakistan Madrassas
November 27, 2017
An investigative report on conditions in Pakistan’s Islamic madrassas, the parochial schools that educate approximately two million children in the country, has found evidence of pervasive sexual abuse of children and almost no reporting and prosecution of perpetrators because of widespread fears of violent reprisals from Islamist clerics and radical Islamist organizations.
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NGO Seeks Nuanced View of Sources of Terrorism
November 21, 2017
In the wake of the Barcelona terror attack, Cristina Goni of Open Society Foundations calls for national leaders to adopt a nuanced view of the causes of violent extremism and avoid feeding into hateful discourse that promotes "polarizing" narratives and a "Eurocentric understanding" of identity in European countries.