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IS Shows Resiliency with Lethal Firefight in Syria
May 30, 2018
Islamic State (IS) fighters continue to demonstrate resiliency, even as their formal caliphate has been defeated, as evidenced in a recent firefight in eastern Syria that resulted in the death of Syrian government soldiers and Russian military combatants.
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Russia Uses Chechnya as Counterweight to Radical Islamism
May 30, 2018
The arrival of the Egyptian and United Arab Emirates national soccer teams to the Russian North Caucasus Republic to prepare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Moscow signals the Russian government’s efforts to enhance its relations with Mideast countries committed to combating Islamist extremism and to use majority-Muslim Chechnya as a counterweight to Islamist radicalism in the North Caucasus.
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Kansas Court Awards $8 Million to Victim of Islamist Cult
May 30, 2018
A federal court in Kansas awarded $8 million in damages to a human trafficking and sexual exploitation victim of the United Nations of Islam, a cult whose leader split from the Nation of Islam and believes that he is Allah, with communities of followers around the US.
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Turkish Regime Integrates Islamism, Economic Patronage
May 30, 2018
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is cementing his sultanistic regime by declaring the palace of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II as his Istanbul residence and using massive public works projects as an economic patronage system designed to maintain popular support for the ongoing Islamization of the country’s domestic politics and foreign policy.
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Muslim Inmates in Alaska Bring Lawsuit over Ramadan Food
May 24, 2018
Muslim inmates represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations Legal Defense Fund have brought suit against the state of Alaska, alleging "cruel and unusual punishment" and seeking financial damages for inadequate caloric content of food provided at the end of the daily Ramadan fast.
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