Violence and Security

US Needs a New Grand Strategy to Respond to Global Jihadism

September 19, 2016

The reality of global jihadism as a military, cultural, and political phenomenon may require a decisive paradigm shift to a "grand strategy" that customizes the tactical approaches of containment and rollback to specific circumstances in order to end the influence of militant Islamism as a force in the 21st-century international order.
Boko Haram Uses Schoolgirl Hostages as Bargaining Chip in Jihad

September 19, 2016

Boko Haram, the fanatical Islamist group warring to make Nigeria a sharia state, is using the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped more than two years ago to bargain with Nigerian government officials for the release of jihadi terrorists.
Defeating IS Does Not Solve the IS Threat

September 19, 2016

Jacob Olidort writes that existential defeat of the Islamic State will require developmental, educational, and security resources to counter the sizable IS pedagogical, propaganda, and militant structures already deployed globally as part of the "remaining and expanding" strategy for a global Islamist caliphate.
Food Fights Reflect Concerns About Creeping Islamization in China

September 16, 2016

A battle in Chinese social media over government labeling laws for Islamic halal foods pits Chinese Muslims' arguments about religious freedom rights for sharia-compliant food labeling against Chinese state concerns about creeping Islamization reflected in incidents of Islamist terrorism and calls for sharia law by some of the country's Muslim communities.
US Treasury Department Blacklists IS Operatives in Turkey

September 16, 2016

The US Department of the Treasury announced that two Islamic State operatives based in Turkey have been added to the sanctions banning US entities from doing business with individuals and organizations implicated in global terrorist financing activities.
Post-9/11 Data Present Complex Portrait of Trends in Growth of Islam in America

September 14, 2016

Survey data from well-known think tanks show both conversion and immigration as the drivers of a notable increase in the number of Muslims in America and signal that media bias and fears about the globalization of violent Islamism have fueled concerns about Islam in the US during the same period.
Luxembourg Minister: EU Should Expel Hungary for Migration Stance

September 13, 2016

Die Welt reports that Luxembourg's foreign affairs minister Jean Asselborn, accusing Hungary of treating refugees like "wild animals," has called for a change in EU treaties to permit the expulsion of the country from the bloc for building fences to exclude migrants.
Police Casualty Highlights Re-Talibanization of Afghanistan

September 13, 2016

The murder of a prominent Afghan police chief by a Taliban bomb blast highlighted the fact that, 15 years after the US invasion of Afghanistan to root out the al-Qaeda presence that coordinated the 9/11 attacks against America, the hardline Islamist Taliban has recaptured large parts of the South Asian country known as a safe haven for multiple global jihadi groups.
France, UK Cooperate on Wall to Counter Migrant Tactics

September 13, 2016

UK immigration minister Robert Goodwill has announced the cooperation of France and Britain on the construction of a roadside wall in Calais through which the countries will seek to prevent migrants from interfering with traffic in the French city and attempting jump aboard trucks bound for the UK.
UN Rights Chief Compares Tactics of IS, Trump

September 13, 2016

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has asserted that tactics used by US presidential candidate Donald Trump and other politicians he identified as populists, relying on "half-truths and oversimplification" that lead to an atmosphere "thick with hate," resemble those of the Islamic State.