Religious Extremism

Iran's Morality Police Spark Protests After Woman's Death for Violating Hijab Rules

September 20, 2022

Widespread demonstrations have erupted in Iran as protest against the death of a young women in custody of Iran's "Guidance Patrols," the morality police that monitor and punish women for not adhering to the country's strict sharia policy of hijab headscarves, with in-person and online demonstrators condemning the morality police as responsible for her death over her alleged violations of the Islamist regime's hijab policy.
Political Islamism Has Deep Roots in Philippines

September 14, 2022

According to eurasiareview.com, political Islamism in the Philippines is connected to the country’s long history of decolonization activism and global geopolitical competition, and while Haiti al Islamic moments have died away from ideological extremism violence, contemporary forms of political Islamism in the island nation have strong connections to radical jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Malaysia, making the Philippines a security flashpoint in the volatile East Asian space.
Taliban's Islamic Emirate Pitch Islamization & Censorship of Media in Afghanistan as Positive Reform

September 12, 2022

The leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have undertaken a massive restructuring of the country's entire range of media platforms and outlets according to the tenets of sharia law, creating an interlocking set of government regulatory institutions that monitor media for deviations from state-sanctioned Islamism and that impose, according to international and local media and human rights groups, closures, detentions, and torture of journalists deemed non-conforming with the new Islamization reforms.
NATO Member Turkey Intensifies Islamization of Armed Forces

September 07, 2022

The ruling Islamist regime in NATO member-state Turkey is intensifying the Islamization of the country's armed forces in the runup to Spring 2023 parliamentary and presidential elections, with measures ranging from the systematic purging of pro-NATO and pro-West officers from the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), the assignment of oversight responsibilities to jihadist-connected, private miitary contractor SADAT, which reports directly to Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the increasing interpenetration of the TAF with the state's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).
Anti-Regime Islamists Controlling Northern Syria Ban Married Women from Education in Latest Violation of Women's Human Rights

September 07, 2022

The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham movement that runs the Syrian Salvation Government controlling northern Syria in opposition to the al-Assad regime has announced a ban on education for married women, with this latest violation of women's human rights under the jihadist surveillance-and-control regime affecting women of all ages, particularly given the sharp rise in child brides since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
Attacks on Baul Mystical Singers Signals Growing Influence of Islamist Extremists & Endangerment of Religious Minorites in Bangladesh

September 07, 2022

A mob of extremists affiliated with the Jamaat-e-Islami Islamist party in Bangladesh carried out a two-day assault on Baul singers, their ashram-hermitage, and their musical instruments, in actions that signaled the Islamists' targeted rejection of the Baul mystical musical tradition of mistrel songs celebrating humanism and religious tolerance.
Taliban Prioritize Sharia Law in Afghan Foreign Policy & International Relations

August 29, 2022

The leading Islamic cleric of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime declared in a recent meeting that the country will organize its foreign policy according to the dictates of sharia law and will restrict its international relationships accordingly.
Islamists Close Public Family Park for Women in Pakistan

August 29, 2022

Hardline Islamist groups advocating the Talibanization of Pakistan are making headway with their recent successful demand to military authorities in a northwest city of Pakistan that a family park be closed to women and children in order to prevent the “spreading of obscenity and vulgarity” .
Turkish Police Detain Pop Singer on Incitement and Blasphemy Charges

August 26, 2022

Police arrested one of Turkey's most popular singers on charges of inciting hatred and insulting society, in another application of Islamic blasphemy laws used by the Eastern Mediterranean Islamist regime to limit speech freedoms.
Algerian Islamists Condemn French Diplomatic Delegation for Inclusion of Chief Rabbi

August 26, 2022

According to Alegemeiner, a coalition of Muslim Brotherhood-led Islamists in Algeria has publicly condemned the inclusion of France's Chief Rabbi in a 90-person diplomatic delegation led by French President Emmnuel Macron to the North African country, labelling the Chief Rabbi an "agent of Israeli and supporter of Zionist apartheid" in language consistent with Algeria's refusal to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.