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Jihadism Trends Toward Local Strategies of Influence-Building
February 20, 2019
Current indicators in Sunni jihadism indicate a trend similar to Shiite jihadism, with a shift away from a focus on top-down strategies of transnational violence and terrorist operations to an emphasis on national and local agendas aimed at building grassroots networks of support for Islamism in society and politics.
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S&P Examines No-Deal Brexit’s Islamic Finance Impact
February 20, 2019
Highlighting the growing importance of Islamic finance in the global marketplace, Standard & Poor (S&P) has published research indicating that a no-deal Brexit will have minimal effects on the global Islamic finance industry, whose assets are on pace to reach $3.2 trillion by 2020.
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Islamist Terror Attack in Kashmir Raises India-Pakistan Tensions
February 15, 2019
A mass-casualty suicide bombing attack on a convoy of Indian paramilitary forces in Kashmir by militant, pro-Pakistan Islamist group Jaish-e-Muhammad, or Army of Mohammed, has ratcheted up tensions in South Asia between the two nuclear states.
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Pregnant British Teen Requests Return to Britain
February 14, 2019
A 19-year-old, pregnant British teen who went to Syria to support the Islamic State (IS) is seeking to return to the UK but declaring no remorse for supporting the caliphate, raising red flags for British authorities whose concerns reflect the broader reintegration risks associated with IS supporters as they try to return to their Western countries of origin.
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Iran Blames US, Israel for Attack on Revolutionary Guard
February 14, 2019
Shiite Iran's President has accused Israel and the US of involvement in a lethal suicide bombing attack against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by a Sunni extremist separatist group and warned of possible retaliatory action, reflecting the destabilizing impacts of Islamist sectarianism.
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