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Hawaii Judge Sentences US Army Sergeant for IS Plot
January 03, 2019
A judge in Hawaii handed down a 25-year prison sentence to a US army sergeant who pled guilty to providing material support to the Islamic State (IS), including extensive, sensitive US military weapons and flight-tracking information.
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Khashoggi Murder Reveals Competing, Anti-Rule of Law Islamisms
January 03, 2019
The murder of Saudi journalist and US permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi reveals multiple, competing forms of Islamism in the Mideast, including Saudi Arabia’s fundamentalist Wahhabism, Iran’s theocratic Shiism, and the revolutionary agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood of Turkey and Qatar, and their incompatibility with the rule of law.
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Rally Shows Growing Strength of Hardline Islamists in Indonesia
January 03, 2019
A march of over 100,000 people in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on the second anniversary of the ouster of the city’s Christian mayor on charges of blasphemy against Islam and as a show of support for the pro-Islamist candidate in next year’s presidential elections signals the growing influence of militant Islamist groups in the country.
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Gulf States See FinTech as Next Step in Expansion of Sharia Finance
January 03, 2019
Arab Gulf Islamic regimes see FinTech - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and other digitized technologies for financial services - as the new frontier in the regional and global expansion of the sharia-compliant/compatible financial industry.
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Gulf States, Turkey Use Soft-Power Tools to Spread Islamism in Africa
January 03, 2019
The Islamist regimes of the Arabian Gulf regimes and Turkey are using systematic investment in education and social services in impoverished African nations as a soft-power tool for expanding radical Islamist ideology and militant operations from the Middle East across the African Continent.
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