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Islamic State Has Staying Power Based on Multiple Assets
April 13, 2015
Despite the recent advances of international and regional actors arrayed against the jihadi terror group Islamic State ("IS"), the complex combination of religious, ideological, financial, and operational assets deployed by IS suggests the potential for protracted staying power and expansion of their political caliphate and military footprint within and beyond the Mideast.
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Domestic Radical Islamism Bent Explains Turkey's Failure to Condemn ISIS
April 13, 2015
Multiple sources of extremist Islamist support within Turkish civil society, combined with the increasingly radicalized Islamist ideological positions of Turkey's governing party, help to explain the country's unwillingness to condemn and to combat the jihadi operations of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ("ISIS").
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OIC Will Use Development Aid to Africa for Broader Strategy of Global Islamist Integration
April 13, 2015
The leadership of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation ("COMCEC") of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") recently announced plans for a sizable increase in development project funding to African countries, and emphasized that the OIC's economic development platforms will be carefully designed to promote greater economic integration as the necessary step to promote "a prosperous Islamic Ummah based on the principles of solidarity and interdependence, enhanced mobility and good governance."
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Islamist Violence in Kenya Reveals Economics and Tactics of Jihadi Terror
April 09, 2015
The recent lethal attacks by the Somali Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab against Christians at Kenya's Garissa University displayed the jihadi group's economic and tactical logic, which relies on low-expense operations utilizing small cells of militants engaged in direct targeting of high-value targets, such as middle-class Christian civilians, that will minimize Muslim casualties.
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Islamic Development Bank Plans to Expand Sharia Finance in Africa
April 08, 2015
The President of the Islamic Development Bank, the main financial institution of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), announced plans for robust expansion of sharia-complement/compatible finance throughout Africa as a means to accelerated economic development on that continent.
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