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Belgian Security Warns of Spreading Saudi & Turkish Forms of Islamism
July 07, 2020
Belgium’s State Security Services (VSSE) has identified the spreading influence of Saudi Arabian and Turkish forms of Islamism in the country as a key long-term security threat, along with growing rightwing extremism, and the rising presence of Chinese military students studying in Belgium.
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Turkey & Saudi Arabia Compete to Radicalize Bulgaria’s Muslim Communities
July 04, 2020
The governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia are making use of formal and informal arrangements with the Bulgarian state related to education and religious training of Bulgarian Muslim communities as a means of Islamist radicalization.
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Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Conversion Plans Continue Islamization and Advance the Christians Cleansing Policy
July 01, 2020
NATO-member Turkey is planning to activate the famed Byzantine Orthodox Cathedral of Hagia Sophia as a mosque, continuing the regime’s Islamization project and building on the country’s secular and religious governments’ policies of cleansing out Christians.
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Qatari Regime and Other Islamist Hardliners Attack Muslim Leader for Anti-Semitism Critique
June 26, 2020
After condemning anti-Semitism and calling for expanded Muslim-Jewish dialogue and cooperation, the Saudi Arabian cleric and Secretary General of the Muslim World League is being attacked by Islamist hardliners on Qatar's main media platform, Al Jazeera.
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Indonesia's Slow Tilt Towards Islamism Evident in Domestic & Foreign Policy
June 26, 2020
The past five years have witnessed a decided turn towards Islamism in the domestic and foreign policy positions of the state of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.
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Anti-Government Protests in Mali Highlight Growing Civil Unrest Related to Spreading Jihadism
June 23, 2020
Although thousands demonstrated in protests in Mali's capital city of Bamako to demand the resignation of the country's president for his failure to stop the spread of jihadist violence in the West African country, the ongoing series of anti-government rallies also has included individuals associated with hardline Islamism.
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Iranian Regime Takes Aim at Instagram's "Immorality" as Antithetical to Islam
June 21, 2020
Iran's Islamic Development Organization, a religious and cultural organization under the direct supervision of the Islamic Republic's Supreme Religious Leader, has condemned Instagram as "immoral and un-Islamic," with the Islamist regime taking direct aim at the social media platform estimated to account for the majority of the country's internet bandwidth.
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Turkey Peddles Anti-Semitism in Tensions with Israel
June 17, 2020
Turkey's Islamist government has used “state-sanctioned anti-Semitic propaganda” in its Mideast regional disputes with Israel.
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Dutch Court Hears Testimony of Islamist Cell's Plans to Hit Military Sites and Public Demonstrations
June 17, 2020
Court proceedings have begun in the Netherlands on charges that a Dutch Islamist cell was plotting attacks in Amsterdam’s famous Gay Pride Parade, an army base, and a nightclub.
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Islamist Regimes’ Competition Destabilizes EastMed Energy Environment
June 17, 2020
Rivalries for geopolitical dominance and ideological hegemony among Islamist regimes are destabilizing the crucial Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) energy exploration and transportation environment, pitting Turkey, Qatar, and Libya against United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia
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