Religious Extremism

Taliban Present Curated Exhibit of War Spoils from U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

January 04, 2022

The Taliban leadership of Afghanistan’s new Islamic Emirate regime is using a curated exhibit of war spoils from the U.S. withdrawal after a twenty-year peace building occupation in the country, with captured American military materiel and parts of a U.S. military base presented by the Islamist regime as a message to a domestic and international audiences as evidence of the inevitability of jihadism’s success.
Islamist Regimes Expand Strategic Defense Cooperation in Eurasian Arc

January 04, 2022

According to Ahvalnews, Islamist regimes are building a Eurasian arc of influence grounded on Turkey’s export of drones and other weapons technologies to Azerbaijan and Pakistan, with partnerships under negotiation for strategic defense cooperation agreements stretching from West Asia through the Caucasus to South Asia.
Taliban’s Virtue-Vice Ministry Uses Sharia in Expanding Assault Women’s Rights

December 27, 2021

The Taliban Islamist regime ruling Afghanistan is expanding its assault on women’s rights, as the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is deploying Islamic sharia law to justify restrictions on women’s freedom of movement without male companions, requirements on head coverings in order for women to take taxis, and bans on education for girls and women.
Turkey’s Islamists Expand TV Censorship as New Year’s Celebrations Approach

December 27, 2021

Turkey’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) are expanding their media censorship for the approaching New Year’s celebrations in reaction to state-imposed prohibitions on televised programming of traditional belly dancing.
Politico: Facebook Is Choice Platform for Islamic Extremists

December 22, 2021

Facebook is a choice social media platform for Islamic extremist groups and their supporters using a range of content to radicalize, recruit, and compete, with a study by Politico showing that IS, Taliban, and Islamic sectarian posts, especially foreign-language materials, avoiding the algorithms and other control tools used by the social media giant to prevent incitement to hate and violence.
Weak Detention Centers for IS Fighters Pose Durable Threat

December 22, 2021

Weak, over-crowded detention centers in Syria that house for IS fighters held for lengthy periods pending resolution of judicial proceedings are devolving into « mini-caliphate » conditions presenting a durable threat from the Islamist extremist group, according to analysis by British counterterrorism officials and think tank research.
OIC to US: Separate Taliban’s Human Rights Performance from Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan

December 21, 2021

In a summit meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that pledged a special humanitarian aid for Afghanistan to be administered by the OIC’s Islamic Development Bank, called on the United States to decouple humanitarian assistance from the human rights performance of the ruling Islamist Taliban regime, with OIC characterizing the Taliban’s limits in the rights of women and girls as an expression of “differing interpretations of human rights.”
SE Europe Faces Islamist Radicalization Threat as Jihadi Families Return to Kosovo

December 20, 2021

According to Balkininsight.com, the jihadist families return to Kosovo from the IS caliphate front in Syria presents a risk that Islamist extremist ideology and actors may be imported into the Southeastern European country, as recent arrests and police activities point to the threats of radicalization and violence.
Radical Islamism in Indonesia Gets a Boost from Evolving Globalized Digital Media

December 15, 2021

Agus Sudibyo, a member of Indonesia’s Press Council has written a book highlighting that the globalization and concentration of digital media giants is changing the contours of Indonesia’s media landscape in ways that are enabling radical Islamist messaging, disinformation dissemination, and censorship pressures to conform to Islamic blasphemy laws in the worlds most populous Muslim-majority country.
Afghan Legal Sector Falls Victim to Sharia Regime Under Taliban

December 08, 2021

The independence of Afghanistan’s legal profession came to an end with the Taliban takeover of the country’s Independent Bar Association (AIBA), followed by the sharia regime’s new mandate that licenses to practice law will now be the exclusive purview of the Ministry of Justice, which also took complete control of all AIBA personnel records.