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UN Rights Official Emphasizes Speech Protections Against Criminalization as Incitement
March 17, 2016
The UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism warned in a report to the UN General Assembly against the slippery slope involved in using counter-terrorism as a legitimizing strategy for violations of free speech, as well as media and religious freedoms.
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Civil Rights Groups Seek Involvement in US Talks with Tech Companies on Extremism
March 16, 2016
As US government agencies expand their engagement with technology and media companies to counter the online activities of Islamist extremist organizations such as the Islamic State ("IS"), US civil rights organizations are arguing that their inclusion in the initiatives is a necessary safeguard to prevent civil-liberties violations of "Muslims and other marginalized communities and individuals."
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Counter-Narratives Initiatives to Counter Violent Islamism Need Retooling
March 16, 2016
Empirical evidence indicates that Western government and private sector "counter narratives" initiatives aimed to stop the global spread of violent Islamism have been largely ineffective, prompting calls for a shift in methods, by addressing causal conditions of human vulnerability and by building the capacity of localized media to personalize outreach and marketing to youth susceptible to Islamist recruitment patterns.
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Boko Haram Mosque Attack Underscores Expanding Islamist Threat on Africa
March 16, 2016
Female suicide bombers, the increasingly frequent mode of choice of the Islamist jihadi group Boko Haram, launched a fatal attack on a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a reminder of the group's resilience as a militant threat committed to the expansion of sharia law throughout West Africa.
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Threat of Violent Islamism in West Africa Shows Endurance, Resilience, and Lethality
March 16, 2016
Security experts are interpreting the recent lethal attack in Ivory Coast by al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb ("AQIM") as a sign of the dangerous resilience and staying power of Islamist extremism in West Africa, where AQIM's high-casualty attacks on soft targets have bolstered both the group's credibility among competing Islamist groups and threat for the region's weak states and fragile regimes endorsing religious pluralism and human rights.
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