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California Attack Raises Questions About US Immigration and Islamist Radicalization
December 14, 2015
Evidence emerging from the investigation of the recent California terrorist attack suggests that the perpetrators were radicalized Islamists who had been contemplating a jihadi attack for years, raising serious questions about vulnerabilities in US efforts to counter domestic Islamist extremism and in Homeland Security screening of visa applications.
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Free Speech Is the Casualty of Military-Jihadi Bargain in Pakistan
December 14, 2015
The de facto power-sharing relationship between Pakistan's military and a constellation of domestic jihadi groups is deliberately suffocating speech and press freedoms under what has effectively become an Islamist authoritarian state.
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Focus on Hate Crimes in US Complicates Focus on Preventing New IS Attacks
December 14, 2015
The US Attorney General's comments on fears about anti-Muslim hate crimes as blowback from the San Bernardino terrorist attacks by Islamic State ("IS") sympathizers has provoked a rhetorical firestorm devoid of reliance on hard data, complicating efforts to prevent domestic Islamist radicalization and possible attacks by homegrown IS supporters.
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Radicalization of California Terrorist Raises Concerns about Global Islamist Education
December 14, 2015
Key to the radicalization of Tashfeen Malik, one of the Islamic State ("IS") sympathizers who perpetrated the recent terrorist attack in California, was her educational experience in Pakistan at an Islamic parochial school with branches in North America, raising serious concerns about regulations for the curricular and teaching guidelines for global Islamist education.
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McCarthy: Sharia Undermines US Constitutional Principles
December 09, 2015
Andrew McCarthy of the National Review Institute writes that the debate over Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's policy proposal to "shut down" Muslim entry into the US serves to emphasize the tension between Sharia, which demands total subservience to its tenets, and the Western constitutional tradition, which entails a separation between spiritual and civic life.
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