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US Islamist Lobby Leads Push to Block Free Speech in Baltimore Speaker Series
January 27, 2016
The Council on American Islamic Relations, the largest Islamist lobby group in the United States, is taking the lead in pressing Stevenson University to rescind a public speaking invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a public activist and outspoken critic of radical Islamism, arguing that First Amendment rights should not be trumped by Ali's "Islamophobic rhetoric."
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Islamic Republic of Gambia Creates Openings for Political Islamism in Africa
January 27, 2016
Following on the President of Gambia's December 2015 declaration of the state as an Islamic Republic and his early 2016 moves to pass sharia dress rules for state employees, Gambia's political leadership is creating new openings for the penetration of political Islamism into West Africa by moving to tighten economic and security ties with globalist sharia states in the Arabian Gulf and with Turkey.
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Growth in Hardline Islamism Threatens Religious Minorities in Indonesia
January 27, 2016
Hardline Sunni Islamist activism in parts of Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority state, is generating threats against religious minorities, as the Muslim Ahmadiyah sect is being pressured to either "convert" to Sunni Islam or be expelled from the country, with sectarian harassment following the pattern of increasing Islamist attacks on Indonesia's Christian communities.
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Threats of Extremist Political Islamism Extend Far Beyond IS
January 27, 2016
Security analysts warn that the jihadi project of the Islamic State ("IS") is part of a far more extensive set of global threats from extremist political Islam, in the form of sectarian states such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran, and their non-state, violent Islamist proxies, such as Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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2015 Was Marked by Troubling Signs of Extremist Islamism in America
January 27, 2016
Extremist political Islam became a more prominent and consistent part of the US social and political landscape in 2015, based on a media review of threats of religious violence, social intolerance, and chilling effects on free speech and gender equality.
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