Religious Extremism

Pakistan’s Islamist Hardline Flex Power by Attacking International Women’s Day March

March 16, 2020

Groups from Pakistan’s broad spectrum of hardline Islamist groups flexed their social muscle in their recent disruption of a women’s freedom march in the country’s capital city.
USAID Highlights Importance of Economic Assistance to Counter-Radicalization

March 11, 2020

An internal document of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) underscores the importance of America's foreign economic assistance programs as a tool for combating Islamist radicalization.
Hezbollah Tries to Hold Lebanon Economic Hostage

March 11, 2020

Iran-supported Shiite extremist group Hezbollah, the largest political party and paramilitary group in Lebanon, is holding the Lebanese government hostage by declaring its refusal to participate in negotiations for a possible economic bailout plan of Lebanon from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Islamism Intensifies in Indonesia's Identity Politics

March 11, 2020

Indonesia's domestic and foreign policies are demonstrating an increasing trend towards Islamism, evidenced in the growing sectarianism in the country's domestic elections and politics of identity, as well as in the Jakarta government's effort to accommodate pressures from homegrown radical Islamist groups on foreign-policy issues.
Egypt Sites Geopolitical Threats of Radical Islamist Sectarianism in New Ban on Shiite TV Channels and Websites

March 11, 2020

The Egyptian state's high court has imposed a ban on Shiite Islamic television channels and websites, in a legal ruling explained as preventive action to thwart the threat of spreading Islamist sectarian extremism inside Egypt.
International Women's Day Reminds of Human Rights Deficits of Mideast's Islamist Regimes

March 11, 2020

The March 8th date of International Women's Day offered a sobering reminder of how the systemic limitations violations of human rights that mark Islamist and Islamic regimes across the Mideast disproportionately affect women.
Jihadism in Africa Points to Broader Islamization of the Continent

March 05, 2020

The spike in jihadist operations and concomitant violent targeting of Christians across Africa is a reminder of broader trends on the Continent, where the correlation of intense demographic growth and rapid Islamization of the population will make Africa the second most populous Muslim concentration by the middle of this century.
Pakistani Islamist Groups Stand in Favor of Polio Vaccine

March 02, 2020

The leading Islamist councils and groups in Pakistan have taken a public stand in favor of child polio vaccination, supporting the country’s Ministry of Health campaign for polio eradication.
Proliferation of Jihadist Groups Is Committed to Global Sharia and Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons

March 02, 2020

The range of Jihadist groups operating with a vision for global sharia law and a concomitant commitment to acquisition of nuclear weapons to achieve that goal represents a rejection of the Westphalian state order.
Macron Highlights European Challenge of Non-Violent Islamism's Program of Radicalization and Social Separatism

February 26, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron's recent declaration of his government's strategic policy against political Islam lays bare the European-wide challenges of radicalization, social fragmentation, and democratic weakening generated by non-violent Islamism.