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IS Follower Kills French Police Employees
June 15, 2016
Fears over terrorism and foreign fighters have resurfaced in France as a French citizen who pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State and had been convicted of working in a jihadi recruitment network killed a police officer and his partner, also a police employee, with a knife in Magnanville.
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Australia Reviews Islamic Cleric's Visa over Florida Sermon
June 15, 2016
FoxNews.com reports that Australian authorities are considering revoking the visa of a British-born Islamic cleric, Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar, who reportedly advocated killing homosexuals at a lecture in Michigan in 2013 and delivered a sermon in Florida on homosexuality in the weeks before the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
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IS Hacker Groups Circulate "Kill Lists" of US Citizens
June 14, 2016
A cluster of pro-Islamic State online hacker groups under the banner "United Cyber Caliphate" is circulating a kill list of citizens of the US and other Western alliance countries, pointing to extremist Islamist groups' growing use of cyber tactics to wage global jihad.
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IS Message of Hate and Violence Fuels Deadly Attack in Orlando
June 14, 2016
The gunman who murdered 49 and wounded 53 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State during his killing spree, a dangerous warning about the pernicious spread of radical Islamism's message of hatred and violence inside the US and IS's globalization of terrorism in the name of Islamist standards of acceptable sexual orientation.
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Islamist Radicalization Threatens Religious Minorities in Bangladesh
June 14, 2016
A recent spate of brutal machete killings against Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians in Bangladesh has provoked a government roundup of suspected radical Islamists in an effort to identify the sources of expanding violence against non-radical Muslims, and especially, against the South Asian country's non-Muslim minority communities, by radical Islamist groups supporting the imposition of sharia law.
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