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Debates Continue on Preventive Action in US Against Violent Islamism
December 02, 2015
The aftershocks of the Islamic State's ("IS") terror attacks in Paris continue in US policy and media debates about optimal measures to prevent radical Islamist recruiting and attacks inside America, as analysis focuses on the salience of distinguishing between Islamism and Muslims.
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Brits Debate Whether War Against IS Will Prevent Domestic Attacks by Islamist Extremists
December 02, 2015
British Prime Minister David Cameron's push to expand the country's presence in the anti-Islamic State ("IS") coalition in the Mideast has provoked debate about the preventive versus aggravative consequences for the domestic level, given the radicalizing influence and extremist threats of returning jihadis to Britain.
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Report on IS Recruits in US Raises Red Flags about Radicalization
December 02, 2015
The findings of a comprehensive study by George Washington University of known Islamic State ("IS") recruits in America reveal accelerated growth in sympathizers for the group, with social media critical to the spread of radical Islamist ideas and networks for a broad spectrum of IS activities.
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IS Forces Expand Caliphate Across Mediterranean Basin
November 30, 2015
Libya has become the secondary focal point, outside of Syria and Iraq, for the Islamic State's ("IS") expansion of its caliphate around the Mediterranean Basin, and the establishment of violent Sharia penal practices and extortive tax practices is producing an extremist Islamist order directly across from Europe's southern shores.
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Rights Watchers Worry About Saudi Arabia's Spike in Executions
November 30, 2015
Public beheadings and amputations are a regular feature of Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system, which operates according to puritanical Wahhabi Islamism, but human rights watchers warn that growing cases of poverty, sectarian targeting of Shiites, and the Kingdom's war against Islamist terror, are producing a shocking spike in executions in the hardcore Sunni theocracy.
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