Religious Extremism

World Cup Exposes Human Rights Violations of Islamist Regimes

November 30, 2022

Team protests, journalistic incidents, and celebrity endorsements at the World Cup tournament in Qatar are exposing human rights violations and political repression by Islamist regimes such as Qatar, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Regional Al Qaeda Warns Muslims to Boycott World Cup in Qatar

November 23, 2022

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has warned Muslims worldwide to boycott the World Cup soccer tournament underway in Qatar, issuing a condemnation of the Islamist monarchical regime for welcoming “sowers of corruption and atheism, and immoral people and homosexuals” to the Arabian Peninsula.
Sharia Punishments Reintroduced in Afghanistan with Public Floggings

November 22, 2022

The Taliban Islamic Emirate regime had reintroduced corporal punishments based on the application of sharia law, with men and women publicly flogged in a town in northeastern Afghanistan for allegations of the crimes of adultery, running away from home, and theft, in a sign that strict sharia norms and practices are being implemented at all levels in the South Asian country.
Taliban Sharia Regime Squeezes Women’s from Education & Public Sphere

November 22, 2022

Women and girls are being victimized under the Taliban’s sharia regime in Afghanistan, where limitations on girls K-12 education have been augmented with restrictions on professions open to women in graduate study and work, and the escalation of bans on women in public spheres are enforced by the country’s Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Turkey's Judiciary Blocks Inquiries on Links Between Ruling Islamist Regime and IS

November 22, 2022

Turkey's judiciary has continually blocked requests from civil society groups and opposition parties using country's Right to Information Act to secure data on arrests, prosecutions, convictions, and time served by IS operatives and sympathizers in the NATO member-state, raising questions about the criminal justice system's complicity in cooperation between the Islamist regime in Ankara and IS jihadism.
World Cup Puts Qatar's Islamist Regime Under Microscope for Human Rights Abuses

November 22, 2022

Qatar's Islamic Emirate is coming under intense critique in the runup to this weekend's World Cup competition, given the impacts of the sharia regime on labor rights and practices, LGBTQ freedoms, and financial corruption corrosive for rule of law.
Iran Regime Metes Out Death Sentences for Human Rights Protestors

November 16, 2022

The judiciary in Iran’s Islamist regime is coming down hard on protestors who have demonstrated for two months since the death of a young woman detained by the country’s morality police for improper wearing of her sharia-mandated head covering, with the first death penalty sentence handed down to a group of eight demonstrators.
Turkey’s Islamist Regime Plays Host to Hamas & Taliban

November 14, 2022

Turkey’s Islamist regime hosted meetings between senior officials of Islamist terror group Hamas and an official delegation of Taliban leaders representing Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate, in meetings that covered a unified strategy for the global islamic community/umma on Palestinian issues and the possibility of diplomatic recognition and investment by Turkey for the Afghan regime, and that, above all, underscored Turkey’s permissive environment for politics, financing, and operations planning by radical Islamist groups with international scope.
Iran’s Regime Targets Universities as Opposition Mounts against Islamist Cultural Revolution

November 08, 2022

Iran’s universities are part of the wave of anti-government protests that have swept the country in the wake of the death of a young Kurdish woman in custody of the country’s virtue-and-vice morality police, with the regime targeting university students with violence and arrests because of their opposition to the Islamist cultural revolution and sharia state imposed in the country since 1979.
AQ Releases New Manuel on Jihad in Sudan

November 02, 2022

Sudan's leading Al Qeada (AQ) ideologue and collaborator with Osama bin Laden has condemned democracy as an "infidel project" and called for a jihad against the government of Sudan, in a detailed how-to manual published by an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) publishing house, with the compilation of ideological, organizational, and operational guidelines for jihadis providing a window into the clear and present danger posed by the durable AQ leadership structure.