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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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Palestinian Authority Appeals to OIC for Greater Cooperation on Jerusalem
December 21, 2015
The Palestinian Authority has made an official request of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), a 57-member transnational organization claiming to speak for Muslims worldwide and whose charter supports sharia, to use all international institutions to fundraise for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and to "defend Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount against Israel's efforts to destroy them."
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US and Russia Cooperate in United Nations to Strangle IS Finance for Terror
December 18, 2015
The UN Security Council adopted a US- and Russia-sponsored resolution seeking to strangle the funding streams - from oil sales, antiquities plunder, slave trafficking, and ransom and taxes on religious minorities - by which the Islamic State ("IS") finances its jihad terrorism and caliphate.
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IS Is Globalizing the Footprint of Violent Sharia
December 17, 2015
The deliberate and steady cultivation and consolidation of regional affiliates with declared organizational loyalty and operational integration into the Islamic State ("IS") has occurred within the past 18 months, establishing a robust, global footprint of violent Islamism from the Mideast to Africa to the Caucasus and Southwest Asia.
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Internet Platforms Agree to Remove "Hate Speech" in Germany
December 17, 2015
Time reports that, amid rising concerns among German officials about the growing number of "hateful messages" regarding migrants posted to social media, internet companies Google, Facebook, and Twitter have agreed with the German Government to remove such "hate speech" from their platforms, though it is unclear how broad the definition of such speech will be.
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