Global Political Islam

  • IS Child Brutality Aims to Make Child Jihadis

    August 31, 2015

    Reports from survivors and eyewitnesses are describing the Islamic State's ("IS") systematic use of torture, amputations, and brainwashing to forcibly conscript young boys in Syria and Iraq into an army of child jihadis committed to "true Islam."

  • OIC Shows Its Weight at UN by Securing Re-Definition of Terrorism

    August 26, 2015

    In exchange for voting bloc support from the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") for India's proposal at the UN for a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism ("CCIT"), India agreed to change the proposed definition of terrorism to reflect the OIC's emphasis on differentiating "national self-determination movements" from terrorism.

  • Egyptian Government Crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood Reveals Radicalization of Islamist Base

    August 26, 2015

    Although the leadership in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") has sharply disagreed over how to respond to the al-Sisi government's crackdown against the MB, the organization's hyper-radicalized base is pressuring the leadership to endorse a strategy for the violent overthrow of the government as part of the jihadi project of creating a transnational caliphate.

  • Al-Shabaab Stages Lethal Attack in Unrelenting Islamist Extremist Fight in Somalia

    August 26, 2015

    The latest lethal car bomb attacks in two Somali cities had all the characteristics of an al-Shabaab operation and underscored the unrelenting fight by the Islamist extremist group to push back against African Union peacekeeping troops and to impose sharia law in Somalia and East Africa.

  • OIC Chief and Bangladesh Prime Minister Emphasize Unity of Global Islamic Community

    August 26, 2015

    The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, welcoming the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") in an official visit to discuss the education and technology priorities of the OIC, emphasized the importance of Muslims worldwide to stand against terrorism and to communicate to the world that "Islam never supports terrorism and is a religion of peace that teaches tolerance."

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