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Turkish Islamization Extends to Performing Arts
August 30, 2016
The Director-General of Turkey's national theater companies has announced that the new season will only include plays that "contribute to the integrity and unity of the homeland" and "strengthen national, and spiritual feelings," a decision described by one prominent Turkish artist as a form of Islamist-nationalist fascism.
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US Official Warns of Widespread Blasphemy Laws
August 26, 2016
David Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the US State Department, writes of threats to religious freedom and freedom of speech in countries with laws that criminalize forms of "blasphemy" and "defamation of religion," including recent persecution of Christians and Muslims in Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, and other Muslim-majority states.
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Mississippi IS Recruit Receives Eight-Year Sentence
August 26, 2016
In yet another case of jihadi recruitment from the US, a court in Mississippi sentenced a man to eight years in prison on charges of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist group after confessing that he planned to travel with his wife via Turkey to Syria to join the Islamic State.
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IS Aims to Replace Failed State in Libya
August 25, 2016
The US-led campaign against Islamic State strongholds in North Africa has degraded the jihadi group's strategy of systematically replacing the full range of state services, from traffic control to public order, absent since the collapse of the state in Libya.
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University Attack Signals Taliban Hold in Afghanistan
August 25, 2016
Taliban militants are suspected as the likely perpetrators of a multiple-casualty attack on the American University in Kabul, underscoring the expanding scope and control of the Islamist radical group aiming to topple the government of Afghanistan.
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