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Somalia's Al-Shabaab's Mideast Roots & African Expansion Underscores Transnational Features of Radical Islamism
December 19, 2022
The origins of the Somalia-based militant Islamist group al-Shabaab, which has proven a durable threat in pursuing its war for a Greater Somalia governed by sharia law, lie in Mideast Salafist groups with links to al-Qaeda, and, taken together with the expansion of al-Shabaab's jihadist operations to Kenya and Uganda, the organization's trajectory underscores the transnational features and threat profile of radical Islamism.
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Social Consequences of Turkey's Islamist Government Reflected in Court Case of Six-Year-Old Girl's Forced Marriage & Abuse
December 19, 2022
Turkish courts are embroiled in a controversial case surrounding the social consequences of the wide berth afforded the country's Islamic brotherhoods under the country's Islamist government, based on divorce proceedings of a now-adult female who detailed her forced marriage and sexual abuse at the age of six to an adult male, in an arrangment by a leader in one of the prominent Suft Sunni brotherhoods close to the ruling regime.
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Women & Girls Are Multiply Victimized by Boko Haram Jihad in Nigeria
December 14, 2022
Nigerian women and girls are the victims of rape, kidnapping, and enslavement by the Boko Haram Islamists waging a jihad in the oil-rich African country, but the discovery by Reuters investigative reporting of a massive systemic, largely clandestine program of forced abortions imposed by the Nigerian government on those women and girls impregnated by Boko Haram fighters is yet another traumatic consequence of the Islamists’ war to control Nigeria.
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Pressures of Extremist Islamism Are Evident in Violence & Legislation in Indonesia
December 14, 2022
The political and social traction of extremist Islamism in Indonesia, the worlds largest Muslim-majority country, became evident last week, as a jihadi suicide bombing attack on Java was followed by the announcement of legislative changes to the country’s criminal code, imposing fines and possible prison sentence for cohabitation and sex outside of marriages, changes criticized as too lenient by hardline Islamist groups.
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Iran Resorts to Public Executions to Preserve Islamic Regime Facing Nationwide Protests
December 14, 2022
Iran’s security authorities are resorting to public executions as an intimidation tactic aiming to quell countrywide demonstrations against the repression of the Shiite Islamist regime which has been rocked by three months of protests and scores of arrests and policy brutality, catalyzed by the September death of a Kurdish-Iranian woman held in custody by the clerical regime’s draconian morality police.
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