Religious Extremism

Saudis Use Cyber-weapons for Surveillance Campaign Inside US

April 08, 2020

A whistleblower with knowledge of Saudi Arabia's three largest telecommunications companies indicates that the Sunni Islamic fundamentalist regime is weaponizing its global mobile phone technologies for a systematic surveillance campaign targeting Saudi nationals inside the United States and other countries, towards the goal of taking retribution against real and perceived opponents of the Islamist monarchy.
Council on American-Islamic Relations Loses Pressure Campaign to Prevent Speaker on Islam at US Army War College

April 06, 2020

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) failed in its efforts to prevent the US Army War College's Heritage and Education Center from hosting a speaker on the history and present state of Islam, Islamism, and war.
Pakistan Detains Four Islamists Acquitted for Murder of US Journalist Daniel Pearl

April 06, 2020

Following U.S. and international human rights groups’ outrage over the decision by a Pakistan court’s acquittal and early release of the four Islamists convicted of the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, local authorities in Sind Province have detained the men, citing concerns that their release could produce actions detrimental to the country.
Pakistan Officials Fuel Islamist Violence by Sunni Muslim Majority Against Hazaara Shiite Minority for Spreading COVID-19

April 06, 2020

As Pakistan authorities accuse the country's Hazaara Shiite minority of spreading the COVID-19 virus, members of the country's Sunni Muslim majority are targeting them for violence as the source of the "Shiite contagion."
Canadian Woman Lured by IS to Syria Details Jihadist Recruiting Strategy

April 01, 2020

A Canadian woman supporter of IS who is now seeking repatriation from a detention camp in Syria details the combination of sophisticated recruiting and brutal repression used by jihadists to enmesh Western women in the jihadist project.
Indonesia's Islamic Sects Advocate Niqab Coverings for All Women

April 01, 2020

The range of born-again Islamic sects across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, are promoting the full-body-full-face covering of all women under the niqab, a practice that has raised concerns among the country's political democratizers as a sign of growing social pressure by hardline Islamists.
Nordic Monitor: Coronavirus Pandemic Fuels Hate Speech in Turkey

April 01, 2020

According to the Nordic Monitor, the coronavirus pandemic has fueled hate and xenophobic speech in the predominantly pro-government Turkish media, which accuses the usually targeted groups and countries including Jews, the Gülen movement and the West of being the source of COVID-19 and spreading the virus among Turkish society.
Turkey Pursues Domestic Islamization Agenda with Moves to Church of Hagia Sophia into Mosque

March 25, 2020

The Islamist government of NATO-member Turkey took another step in its aggressive Islamization policies that include converting the historic Byzantine Orthodox Cathedral into a mosque, with the Islamic call to prayer being practiced from the minarets imposed on the church that will be activated as the “Grand Hagia Sophia Mosque.”
AQ Congratulates Taliban for “Defeat of U.S.” and Pledges Allegiance to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

March 24, 2020

Al-Qaeda command has heralded the Afghan Islamist extremist Taliban’s Doha Agreement with the United States, presented by Washington as a peace deal to end two decades of war in Afghanistan, as a jihadist victory over the West, and pledged allegiance to Taliban Emir Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada as head of a new sharia state in the South Asian country and as the leader of global jihad.
Social Stigma and Guardianship Laws Are Ongoing Roadblocks to Women in Saudi Theocracy

March 18, 2020

Women in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic theocracy report increasing freedoms in legal-formal terms since notable liberalization moves in the last year around rights to drive and work, but some laws continue to limit women as equal citizens in the Sunni Islamist kingdom.