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Islamism and Populism Ascend in Turkey Coup Aftermath
July 18, 2016
Islamism and populism are the winners - and democracy is the loser - in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in Turkey, as President Erdogan's Islamist government has arbitrarily detained 6,000-plus "coup plotters" in the judiciary, armed forces, and police, many of whom belong to the country's competing Islamist movement led by Pennsylvania cleric Fetullah Gulen.
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GMM Leader Seeks OIC Meeting on Islamophobia
July 18, 2016
The Malaysian leadership of the Global Movement of Moderates initiative in the UN is urging an emergency meeting of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to discuss the recent slew of international terrorist attacks "falsely attributed to Islam" and to develop OIC measures to counter the consequent "escalation of Islamphobia narratives within the Western world."
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Saudi Arabia's Islamism Faces Internal Tensions and Dominant Extremism
July 18, 2016
The story of a former top-member-turned-reformer of Saudi Arabia's notorious Islamist religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, reveals the rigid extremism, internal pressures, and limits for reform inherent in the country's state-enforced and globally exported brand of Sharia.
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Islamist Terror Threatens All of France
July 18, 2016
In the immediate aftermath of a lethal, high-casualty terror attack in Nice, France's President announced that "all of France . . . is under the threat of Islamist terrorists."
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Tunisia's Modernization Policies Catalyze Islamist Blowback
July 18, 2016
The disproportionate number of Tunisian jihadis fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, as well as the role of Tunisians in the spate of Islamist terror assaults in France, points to the blowback against Tunisia's democratic liberalization policies and social modernization strategies.
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