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UN Meeting Seeks Human-Rights Solution to IS Recruitment
January 07, 2016
At a recent meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee, UN Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman called for governments to look to the UN Charter and to international human-rights law as the bases for their response to Islamic State ("IS") recruiting efforts and foreshadowed the UN chief's release of a UN Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.
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US House Resolution Generates Free Speech Concerns
January 06, 2016
Judith Bergman of the Gatestone Institute expresses concerns that a resolution proposed by Members of the US House of Representatives that condemns "hateful rhetoric" against Muslims and calls on law-enforcement officials to prosecute and prevent "hate crimes" may be at the forefront of actions by US authorities to impose limitations on the freedom of speech.
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Muslim-American ACLU Official Says Calls to Condemn IS Foment Islamophobia in US
January 05, 2016
The Muslim-American Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") of the state of Michigan has publicly condemned calls for Muslim Americans to denounce the Islamic State ("IS") as nativism and bigotry that provokes Islamophobia.
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Islamist Extremists Disrupt Soft Civilian Infrastructure in Germany with Threats
January 04, 2016
The disruptive effects of Islamist extremists were on full display with the German authorities' recent closure of two major train stations in Munich after authorities received credible threats about planned rail violence by individuals associated with the Islamic State ("IS").
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Islamism in Indonesia Suggests Possible Alternatives to Violent Radicalism
January 04, 2016
The comparatively weak results of the Islamic State's ("IS") aggressive efforts to recruit and radicalize in Indonesia, the state with the world's largest Muslim population, suggests the possible importance of Indonesia's Islamist alternatives to radical violence and competitive democratic speech freedoms as antidotes to totalitarian Islamist models.
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