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US-Funded Charities Call on Taxpayers to "Care for Refugees"
December 21, 2015
Michael Patrick Leahy writes that a recent summit hosted by Christian charity World Relief, which is receiving $1 billion per year from the US Refugee Resettlement Program, that called for an "evangelical response" in caring for refugees entering the US from the Middle East and Africa is part of a general public-relations push to continue this flow of federal aid.
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IS-Hamas Cooperation Exacerbates Mideast Instability
December 21, 2015
The alliance of convenience in the Egyptian Sinai between traditionally-opposed Islamist radical groups, Hamas and the Islamic State ("IS"), with support for the former from Qatar and Turkey, is heightening instability for both Israel and Turkey and threatening to radicalize Palestinian Muslims in Gaza.
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Virginia Schools Confuse Teaching World Religions with Islamist Proselytism
December 21, 2015
A Virginia high school district assignment requiring students to calligraphy the Islamic statement of faith has sparked a broader debate about that state's preferential approach to Islam in teaching about world religions as a slippery slope to Islamic indoctrination.
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Extremist Islamism Enjoys Widespread Support in Pakistan
December 21, 2015
Extremist Islamist ideology, including support for violence, remains deeply entrenched in society in Pakistan, feeding off economic divisions and foreign conspiracy theories to garner widespread support.
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Internet Footprint of US Extremist Imam Raises First Amendment and Security Dilemmas
December 21, 2015
Calls by some security experts for internet providers to limit the massive digital footprint of Islamist extremism by the late US jihadi Anwar al-Awlaki are raising complex questions about balancing First Amendment protections against counter-terrorism priorities, which some American Muslim activists are reducing to religious discrimination.
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