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Austria Reforms Islam Law to Prevent Radical Influence from Foreign Sources
March 04, 2015
Austria's Parliament passed an amendment to the country's 1902 Islam law, aiming to prevent deliberate, external radical Islamist influence in the country by prohibiting foreign funding for mosques and imams, while so protecting civil, political, and religious rights for Austria's six percent Muslim population.
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IS Fighting Hearts-and-Minds Battle for Legitimacy as Sole Arbiter of Islamic Radicalism
March 04, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") is engaged in a hearts-and-minds struggle with competing Sunni and Salafist leaders and institutions in order to establish IS's ideological credentials necessary for sustainable recruiting, durable institutions, and global jihadi activities.
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Saudi King Criticizes Islamist Extremism as Deviation from True Islam
March 04, 2015
Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted last week's "World Conference 'Islam and Counter-Terrorism" in Mecca, calling on participants to work toward rejecting “intolerance and extremism that offends Islam,” and characterizing Islamist extremists as responsible for "abusing Islam, the religion of moderation."
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Experts Question Social Media Impacts on Islamist Radicalization
March 04, 2015
Experts are debating how to differentiate the comparative impacts of social media presence, battlefield success, or material conditions as drivers of radicalization and recruitment to Islamist violent extremist groups such as the Islamic State ("IS").
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Islamic State Targets Christians for Death as "Polytheists"
March 04, 2015
The Islamic State's ("IS") recent mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christians reflected the Islamic theological concept of Christians as "Polytheists" who, according to Islamic law, must be targeted for death.
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