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UN Outs Jihadi Groups on Kidnapping-Ransom Revenue Policy
November 26, 2014
The UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee has identified kidnapping-for-ransom as a core policy for generating multi-million-dollar revenue streams by violent Islamist extremist groups like al-Qaeda and The Islamic State (“IS”).
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Islamist Extremist Recruitment Gains Traction in United States
November 26, 2014
The announcement by U.S. prosecutors of terrorism charges against two Somali-Americans alleged to be heading to Syria to fight with jihadi groups there suggests that radicalization and recruitment efforts by extremist Islamist groups may be gaining traction within the United States.
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Tunisia Shows Worrying Signs of Islamist Youth Radicalization
November 26, 2014
Tunisian officials in the newly elected, democratic government are expressing concerns about an uptick in societal violence associated with the youth radicalizing activities of the country's Islamist party and foreign Islamist groups.
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Jihadi Returnees to Europe May Be a Threat or a Resource
November 26, 2014
European governments are debating whether policies for citizens seeking to return from jihadi fronts in the Mideast should be treated as threats or resources in countering the domestic spread of extremist Islamism.
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Islamic State a New Kind of Islamist Extremist Entity
November 26, 2014
In contrast to Islamist terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, The Islamic State’s (“IS”) model of jihad is premised on building the territorial, military, economic, and political structure of a state, in order to abet the sustained, worldwide spread of radical Islamism.
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