Global Political Islam

Questioning the Self-Radicalization of the New Orleans Terrorist

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:23:00 -0500

Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff, CIA analyst, and House intelligence Committee staff member, questions the narrative given by the FBI and mainstream media that the New Orleans terrorist, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was "self-radicalized."

Turkey's Islamists Cooperate with Anti-Western Nationalists & Russian Propagandists in Disinformation Campaign to Tip Upcoming Elections

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:52:00 -0400

Operatives from Turkey's ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) are working closely with members of the militant neo-nationalist Aydinlik group and US-sanctioned Russian disinformation experts in a systematic, anti-Western, propaganda campaign aimed at tarring the AKP opposition coalition as puppets of NATO and at fully rupturing Turkey's Transatlantic orientation.

Africa's Sahel & Maghreb Regions Are Destabilized as Frontline Conflict Zone for Competing Islamist Militant Groups

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:12:00 -0400

Africa's Sahel and Maghreb regions have become frontline zones of conflict between competing Islamist militant groups, with al-Qaeda Islamic Maghred (AQIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) engaged on their respective digital platforms in an escalating battle for ideological hegemony in global jihadism, concomitant with an expanding and increasingly violent operational war for territorial dominance in these geopolitical crucial regions of the African Continent.

Islamic Jihad Threatens Israel Over Palestinian Prisoner Controversy

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:10:00 -0400

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (IJ) leadership has issued a general threat against Israel within the context of a hunger strike by an imprisoned leader of the Islamist extremist paramilitary group, accusing Israeli authorities of depriving the PIJ prisoner from "fulfilling his social and national role" among Palestinians since an Israeli security dragnet in the West Bank led to the detention of multiple suspects involved in terrorist activities

Iran Threatens Israel & US in Annual Islamic Republic Army Day Celebration

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:08:00 -0400

The president of Iran reiterated the regime's commitment to exporting the Islamist revolutionary ideology and to sustaining support for proxy state and non-state actors in the Greater Middle East at this year's annual parade for Islamic Republic Army Day, threatening both Israel and the United States with military action after characterizing them as threats to regional security, with his comments coming at a time of rising Israeli and American tensions related to Iran proxies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

OIC Calls Out Afghanistan on Prohibitions on Women Working

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:45:00 -0400

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called out the Taliban Islamic Emirate regime for banning women from working, with the global Islamic entity planning to send a delegation to meet with the Taliban to push for women to be permitted to work according to strictures that comply with sharia law.

US Treasury Dept. Disrupts Islamist Terrorism with Indictments Against International Web of Hezbollah Financiers

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:40:00 -0400

The US Treasury Department‘s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) indicted multiple individuals and companies across nine countries for money laundering and sanctions evasion to support Hizballah (Hezbollah), disrupting a massive financing web that was supporting the Islamist extremist organization that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.

Iran Moves to Use Surveillance Technology & Courts to Staunch Support for No Hijab Requirement

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:19:00 -0400

The Deputy Attorney General of Iran has announced that the Islamist regime will prosecute supporters of “unveiling,” or the end of requirements for women to wear Islamic head coverings in public, by using public surveillance technology to identify unveiled women and to prosecute them and all supporters through criminal proceedings whose decisions will be “final and unappealable.”

Iran-Saudi Rapproachment Will Strengthen OIC Capacity, Gulf Regional Economic Integration & Security Autonomy

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:18:00 -0400

Preparations for the prospective visit of Iran’s president to Saudi Arabia makes a key development in the rapprochement between the Islamic monarchical regimes of Saudis Arabia and Iran, with the reconciliation aiming to broaden and deepen economic and financial integration among Arabian/Persian Gulf Islamic regimes, to advance Iran’s Islamist agenda for regional security autonomy by expelling any Western security presence from the region, and to strengthen the capacity of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the 57-member-state entity whose sharia-based charter claims to represent all Muslims worldwide.

Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Uses Earthquake Relief to Syria as Cover for Supporting Islamist Operations

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:44:00 -0400

The special operations and intelligence Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been exploiting the need for humanitarian relief in earthquake-decimated Syria to transfer, under cover of earthquake assistance, weapons and other materiel to try to keep Syria within Iran’s anti-Israel Axia and to transfer materials via Syria to Lebanon into the hands of Iran’s Islamist extremist proxy, Hezbollah.