Violence and Security

Polling in Germany Reveals European Concerns over Radical Islam and Liberal Asylum Policies

January 02, 2015

Recent polling data in Germany point to fears of radical Islamization amongst the country's Muslim minority, as well as worries over Islamist asylum seekers, as drivers for spreading anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe.
Somali Islamist Extremists Continue Assaults

January 02, 2015

Only days after a U.S. drone attacked killed the intelligence leader of the Somali Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab, the militant organization attacked a Somali army base and signaled its continuing commitment to make the East African country into an Islamic state.
Islamic State Magazine Calls for Attacks Against "Infidels" in West

January 02, 2015

The most recent issue of "Dabiq," the flagship magazine of The Islamic State's ("IS") social media operation, calls on sympathizers of the Islamist extremist movement to carry out violence against "infidels" in Western countries in Europe and North America.
Boko Haram Wages New Assault in War for Sharia State in Nigeria

January 02, 2015

The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram carried out another attack on civilians in Nigeria, continuing the movement's terror campaign to impose Sharia rule throughout the country.
ISIS Perpetrates Rape, Forced Conversions, Trafficking of Yazidi Women

December 31, 2014

Global rights group Amnesty International has issued a new report with eye-witness accounts detailing the Islamic State's (“IS”) use of systematic rape, forced conversions to Islam, forced marriages, and human trafficking against Yazidi women and girls captive in the areas of Iraq now controlled by the violent extremist group waging war to establish a global Islamic caliphate.
Morocco Faces Dilemma in Countering Violent Islamism

December 31, 2014

The Moroccan state has launched a widespread preventive security dragnet aimed at radical Islamist groups and jihadist elements from North and Sub-Saharan Africa, but some Morocco experts worry that the counter-terrorism approach will alienate average Moroccan citizens fearful of a surveillance state and a rollback of liberalizing reforms.
Afghan Taliban Condemn Pakistani Taliban's School Attack as Un-Islamic

December 24, 2014

Evidence of the internecine conflicts that define Islamist extremist competition for hegemony in South Asia, Afghanistan's Taliban, the self-styled "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," officially condemned the Pakistani Taliban's attack on the Peshawar school as contrary to the principles of Islam.
Afghan Students Turning to Violent Extremist Options in Islamism

December 24, 2014

Afghan university-age students are demonstrating strong support for the violent extremist version of Islamism propounded by Islamic State (“IS”), which has emerged in Afghanistan as a competitor to the Taliban for "spiritual purity" and global jihad, according to evidence from social media sites and the Afghan Security Services.
Tensions Rise in Germany over Anti-Islamization Platform of Rightwing Group

December 24, 2014

Huge turnouts in a series of recent demonstrations in major German cities by the extremist rightwing group Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West (“Pegida”) have led some of the country's politicians, religious leaders, and civic rights activists to call for social calm, as the government looks to address social tensions related to the convergence of domestic economic slowdown and high rates of asylum seekers from Muslim-majority countries in the Mideast.
Sectarian Islamism Destabilizes Yemen

December 24, 2014

The Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen continues to be rocked by violence, as Sunni Islamists loyal to al-Qaeda and Shiite Islamist Houthi tribesmen battle for control of the country.