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Islamist Terror Deaths Rise by ~800% Since 2011, IPT Analysis Finds

April 1, 2016

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Islamist violence threatens Judeo-Christian civilization

by Steve Emerson and Pete Hoekstra  •  April 1, 2016  •  Fox News FacebookTwitter
This article first appeared at Foxnews.com
Imagine more of the African continent engulfed in the Islamist savagery of Libya and Nigeria. Imagine Jordan and Saudi Arabia undergoing the same turmoil as Iraq and Syria. Imagine a Europe that begins to resemble Lebanon more than its American cousin.

Bloody tide: Terror deaths increased 8-fold since 2010, says study

by Perry Chiaramonte  •  March 28, 2016  •  FoxNews.com FacebookTwitter
This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com
The deadly toll of terrorism around the globe has jumped nearly 800 percent in the past five years, according to an exhaustive new report that blames the alarming expansion of Islamist groups across the Middle East and Africa.

Islamist Terror Growing in Lethality and Geography, IPT Analysis Finds

by Steven Emerson and Pete Hoekstra  •  March 28, 2016  •  IPT News FacebookTwitter
The massacres in Brussels and Paris are only the latest salvos in a heightening and devastating threat from radical Islamists globally.
They illustrate troubling and much larger trends that the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has identified in a new analysis based upon its extensive research, sources and multiple databases, including the University of Maryland Global Terrorism Database.

The IPT's Pete Hoekstra Joins Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio

March 29, 2016  •  Secure Freedom Radio FacebookTwitter
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Announcer: – dedicated to the survival of American democracy in an increasingly dangerous world, this is Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, acted as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy under President Ronald Reagan, founder and President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., the go-to man for defense and foreign policy issues, joined by the greatest minds in the security policy business, the special forces in the war of ideas, at Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney.

Global Islamist Terror Surges in Lethality, Focus

by Pete Hoekstra  •  March 28, 2016  •  Foxnews.com FacebookTwitter
This article first appeared on FoxNews.com
People might sense that Islamist terror is on the rise as they follow daily news reporting, but they might be shocked at how significantly it has spiraled in lethality and focus in a very short amount of time.

NYT Acknowledges Findings on Rise of ISIS in Europe

by Pete Hoekstra  •  March 30, 2016  •  IPT News FacebookTwitter
The New York Times finally acknowledged conclusions identified by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) and others for months, if not years, on how inept leaders turned a blind eye to the rise in Europe of the world's most lethal Islamist terror network.

The Gaza Time Bomb

by Yaakov Lappin  •  March 30, 2016  •  Special to IPT News FacebookTwitter
On the surface, the Gaza Strip looks relatively calm, with few security incidents occurring since the end of the protracted 2014 summer conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Behind the scenes, pressure within the Islamist-run enclave is gradually building again, just as it did prior to the 2014 war.

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The IPT Blog

·         UK School Promotes Radical Islam, Anti-Semitism, and Jihad
A private Islamic school in the United Kingdom is propagating radical Islam, promoting anti-Semitic propaganda and teaching that British customs are prohibited, Sky News reports.
·         ISIS Commander Claims To Be In UK
An ISIS commander with a reliable presence on Twitter claimed to be in Scotland or elsewhere in the U.K. this week. Abu Amer al-Jazrawi posted a photo March 24 under a now-deleted account "Jazrawi_Dar3a," showing Japanese food he claimed he was eating.
·         Iran's Supreme Leader Prefers Missile Program Over Negotiations
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proclaimed that the Islamic Republic would prioritize its missile program over negotiations, Fox News reports. "Those who say the future is in negotiations, not in missiles, are either ignorant or traitors," Khamenei said in a speech intended for Western negotiators and posted on his official website.
·         UK Foreign Aid Funds Palestinian Terror
United Kingdom foreign aid directly finances Palestinian terrorists responsible for killing Israelis, including planners of suicide bombings, according to a Daily Mail investigation.

Also In The News

The Libya debacle undermines Clinton's foreign policy credentials

by George Will  •  March 30, 2016  •  Washington Post FacebookTwitter
Republican peculiarities in this political season are so numerous and lurid that insufficient attention is being paid to this: The probable Democratic nominee's principal credential, her service as secretary of state, is undermined by a debacle of remarkable dishonesty. 
Hillary Clinton's supposedly supreme presidential qualification is not her public prominence, which is derivative from her marriage, or her unremarkable tenure in a similarly derivative Senate seat. Rather, her supposed credential is her foreign policy mastery. Well.

How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe's Gaze

by Rukmini Callimachi  •  March 29, 2016  •  New York Times FacebookTwitter
The day he left Syria with instructions to carry out a terrorist attack in France, Reda Hame, a 29-year-old computer technician from Paris, had been a member of the Islamic State for just over a week.

Exposed: UK School Promoting Extreme Islam

by Gerard Tubb  •  April 1, 2016  •  Sky News FacebookTwitter
A private Muslim school in Yorkshire is promoting an extreme form of Islam, claiming that Jews are engaged in a global conspiracy to take over the world and that adopting British customs is forbidden.

ISIS Turns Saudis Against the Kingdom, and Families Against Their Own

by Ben Hubbard  •  March 31, 2016  •  New York Times FacebookTwitter
They were six cousins, all living in Saudi Arabia, all with the same secret. They had vowed allegiance to the Islamic State — and they planned to kill another cousin, a sergeant in the kingdom's counterterrorism force.

Why Westerners make inviting targets for terrorists

by Victor Davis Hanson  •  March 31, 2016  •  Jewish World Review FacebookTwitter
Despite all of that extraordinary presidential outreach, the West remains under constant terrorist threats and episodic attacks, often from Muslim youths who were offered sanctuary in places such as Belgium, France, Massachusetts and California.
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