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Turkey Exports Islamism’s Ideology & Political Activism Worldwide
March 23, 2022
NATO-member Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate commands a multi-billion-dollar budget and a mandate to use religious soft power for the country’s foreign policy objectives, using a combination of mosque-building, heritage trips, parochial school-funding, and media platforms to promote radical Islamist ideology and Islamist political activism worldwide, with Western Europe and the United States included as targets for exporting Turkey’s Islamo-nationalist values and interests.
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OIC Sets up Office in Afghanistan to Address Humanitarian Crisis
March 23, 2022
The global, multilateral Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is establishing an office in Afghanistan in response to the economic collapse and humanitarian crisis plaguing the South Asian country since coming under full control of the Taliban Islamist regime, with the Saudi Arabia-headquartered OIC leadership announcing that the relief office will manage a humanitarian trust fund vehicle of the Islamic Development Bank.
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VOA: Jihadists Wreak Havoc in West Africa with Latest Attack in Niger
March 23, 2022
The security environment in the West African region at the intersection of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria continues to be threatened by active violence from a range of jihadist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, evidenced in the latest lethal attack against a civilian bus in the impoverished country of Niger.
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Nigeria Experience Shows Challenges with Reintegration of Former Islamist Fighters
March 23, 2022
A pilot program by the Nigerian government called “Operation Safe Corridor,” designed to rehabilitate and reintegrate deradicalized combatants from Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), is being met with significant resistance from those traumatized by Islamist kidnappings, rapes, and property destruction which, according to the United Nations, has displaced over two million people in the last decade
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Swedish Court Decision takes aim at EU Citizens Engaging in Terrorism
March 14, 2022
Swedish courts convicted a 49-year-old female citizen of war crimes for helping to enlist her 12-year-old son as a child soldier in the Islamic State (IS) by taking him to Syria and failing to prevent his forced conscription and death, with the court case viewed as a possible landmark for European states' move to try their returning citizens for crimes under international law that were committed as foreign fighters part of the IS caliphate.
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