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US Security Chief Warns of IS 9/11-style Plots
October 25, 2017
The Acting Director of the US Department of Homeland Security warned an Anglo-American audience that Islamic State (IS) cells are planning another 9/11-style attack on American soil, using knife and vehicle attacks as recruiting and financing tools to prepare for a major terrorist blow.
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Experts Look to Reagan's Soviet Policy for Solution to Iran
October 25, 2017
One model for US foreign-policymakers aiming to leverage Iranian constituencies that support an end to Iran’s Islamic theocracy is Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy toward the Soviet Union based on a combination of military-economic pressure and direct diplomatic engagement.
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End to Caliphate Is No End to IS
October 25, 2017
Western security and intelligence experts warn that the military defeat of the Islamic State (IS) with the fall of the Caliphate capital at Raqqa does not mean the end of IS because the jihadi group’s leadership has prepared contingency plans for a shift to ongoing guerrilla operations in the Mideast and Africa and to core soft-target terror attacks in European and American cities.
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British Court Rules Against Gender Segregation in Islamic School
October 25, 2017
The British Court of Appeal has ruled that the al-Hijrah Islamic school in Birmingham must stop gender segregation in all aspects of the educational and social activities of the school, a legal finding that will now be applied broadly to all co-educational faith-based schools, encompassing all religious communities, in Britain.
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Observers Support UNSC Approach to Violent Islamism
October 25, 2017
Think tank experts argue that turning back the tide of Islamist extremist ideology and violence depends on channeling resources into the UN Security Council's (UNSC) sustaining peace programs designed to remedy the intersecting root causes of poverty, lack of education, and human-rights violations on which Islamist groups thrive for recruitment and radicalization.
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