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Saudi Elites Frame War in Yemen in Terms of Islamic History and Islamist Struggles
April 22, 2015
Saudi Arabia's political, intellectual, and religious elites tend to concur on the Saudi-led military coalition against the Houthi rebel militias who have captured Yemen's capital, framing the air war as a necessary step to protect Sunni Islamic orthodoxy against advances by Iranian-backed Shiite heterodoxy.
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Islamization and Destruction of Christian Sites Continues in Turkey
April 22, 2015
Last week's recitation of Quranic prayers in the Byzantine Orthodox Christian Cathedral of Aghia Sophia was sponsored by Turkey's State Directorate for Religious Affairs, reflecting NATO-member Turkey's policy of eradicating the presence of Christians and Christian sites from their ancient homeland in Constantinople and Asia Minor, by an Islamization policy that converts churches into mosques and a religious cleansing policy that destroys Christian religious sites by turning them into stables, public toilets, and commercial buildings.
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Islamist Radicals Thwarted in Terror Attack Planned for France
April 22, 2015
Members of an Islamist terror cell alleged to have been planning coordinated attacks and assassinations in France have been arrested by the French police, prompting French judicial officials to identify violent Islamism as the country's most urgent threat to national security.
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Somali Islamist Extremists Undermine Stability and Development
April 22, 2015
Al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist terror that recently massacred nearly 150 Christians at a Kenyan university, is using an endless campaign of targeted terror operations, kidnappings and extortions, and the imposition of hardline sharia practices, to undermine efforts to establish order and to undermine prospects for sustainable development in Somalia and neighboring East African countries.
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Jordan Faces Expanding Array of Islamist Radical and Extremist Groups
April 22, 2015
The Jordanian government is facing new political and security threats due to a significant transformation in the allegiances and alliances of the country's diverse Islamist groups, driven by a shift in Jordan's radical Salafist groups away from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front battling the Syrian government and toward the Islamic State's ("IS") program of jihad aimed to replace existing Mideast regimes with a transnational caliphate.
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