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Islamist Hackers Release Internet Kill List
June 28, 2016
The recent release by the "Caliphate Cyber Army" of a 4,000-person "kill list" on social media points to a new frontier in the aggressive use of social media and the internet by the Islamic State and other Islamist extremist groups to recruit supporters and to plan violent attacks.
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US Court Grapples with Reach of Islamist Extremism
June 28, 2016
An Oklahoma District Court's dismissal of a motion filed by an ex-Muslim from Syria against a local church alleging the church had endangered his life by reporting online his conversion to Christianity reveals challenges for US courts in dealing with Islamist responses to conversions from Islam.
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UN Official Condemns "Islamophobia" After Shootings
June 23, 2016
The UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, has condemned increased "Islamophobia" in the wake of the Orlando shootings and has criticized politicians who cite "radical Islam" as the cause of the attack.
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MEPs Demand Turkish Reforms for Visa-Free Travel
June 23, 2016
Members of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee recently held a session with Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party in Turkey, to discuss the need for democratic reforms in the country before the EU grants its citizens visa-free access to the bloc.
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Family of France Terror Victim Sues Tech Companies
June 22, 2016
Arguing that without the "material support" of social media companies, the Islamic State would have never gained its global influence, family members of a California student who was killed in last year's Paris attacks have sued Facebook, Twitter, and Google in US court for their alleged contribution to the attacks.
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