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Week's Snapshot Shows Worrying Growth of Global Footprint of Violent Islamism
February 18, 2015
Radical Islamism was a common hallmark in episodes of country-specific violence with transnational effects and blowback, cutting across cases and affecting both non-Muslims and Muslims, from Africa and Asia to Europe and North America.
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Turkey's Erdogan Continues Quest for Recognition as Leader of Global Islam
February 18, 2015
Turkey's Islamist President continued his efforts to position himself as the leader of the world's Muslim community, or ummah, offering on his recent diplomatic junket to Latin America for Turkey to fund mosque constructions in the Western hemisphere and criticizing the United States for Islamophobia in the wake of the killing of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Turkey Projects Soft Power and Pushes Islamization through Mosque-Building Policy
February 18, 2015
The Turkish state agency called the Directorate of Religious Affairs has become a foreign policy platform for funding and operating mosques worldwide, toward the goal of building Turkey's soft power concomitant and establishing the county's lead role in the globalization of political Islam.
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Boko Haram Attacks Impede Nigerian Democracy
February 18, 2015
The violent Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram is damaging democracy in Nigeria, given that regular jihadi attacks have prompted Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission to postpone the country’s general elections, while also damaging popular trust in democratic processes by giving fodder to critics charging that politics informs the postponement.
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Countering Violent Islamism Requires Understanding Jihadi Distinctions
February 18, 2015
International policy efforts to counter the appeal and spread of violent, global political Islamism require precise understanding of different narratives of disruptive, oppositional jihad versus caliphate-state-building jihad.
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