The Politics of Islamism

August 6, 2018 Donate Featured Stories Are Prisons Conveyor Belts to Jihad? by Patrick Dunleavy  •  August 3, 2018  •  IPT News As the United States and its coalition partners continue to squeeze ISIS out of its remaining territory in Iraq and Syria, more and more foreign fighters are returning to their home countries. This migration from the battlefield to the hometown is causing great concern among Western counterterrorism authorities. Click here to read the full story How Quiet Islamization Threatens Secular States by Abigail R. Esman  •  August 1, 2018  •  Special to IPT News While all eyes have focused on the obvious – Islamist violence in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, in Pakistan and the Congo, and in Muslim communities of Western European cities – radical Islam has been quietly tightening its grip in formerly-secular Muslim regions such as Malaysia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Maldives. In turn, these changes are also helping to guide the rise of radical Islam across the West. As Farooq Sulehria, assistant professor at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore noted in a recent e-mail, "diaspora communities are politically reflective of the mainstream currents in the home country." Click here to read the full story Media Enables CAIR's Empty Entrapment Spin by John Rossomando  •  July 30, 2018  •  IPT News If you ask the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its media allies, terrorists ensnared by FBI sting operation are victims of entrapment; they're mentally ill; or both. Click here to read the full story Michigan's Regressive "Progressive" Gubernatorial Candidate July 27, 2018  •  IPT News While polls show him lagging in third place in a three-candidate primary, Abdul El-Sayed promises to shock the political world Aug. 7 by becoming Michigan's Democratic nominee for governor. Click here to read the full story Featured Videos Watch Video Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Vows to Continue Funding Families of "Martyrs" and Prisoners Watch Video Usama bin Laden's son defies family, joins Al Qaeda The IPT Blog Temple University SJP Posts Column Supporting PFLP Terrorists The Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group is the "most ideologically clear organization in the Palestinian liberation movement," a Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) officer wrote Thursday. in a column promoted and linked to Thursday by the group. Bogus Apartheid Claims Follow Passage of Israel Nation-State Law Anti-Israel groups in the United States are using a recently passed Israeli law to ramp up false claims of apartheid. The "nation-state" bill defines Israel as "the national home of the Jewish people" with Jerusalem as its capital. Senior MB Official Touts Linda Sarsour's Gaza Video When Linda Sarsour speaks, a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official apparently likes what he hears. Gamal Heshmat shared an anti-Israel video by Sarsour on his Facebook page last Friday. In it, Sarsour glosses over Hamas' role coordinating the "Great March of Return" in May. Senior Hizballah Officials Acknowledge Group's Presence in Syria and Beyond A top Hizballah official acknowledged that the terrorist organization remains in Syria and is consolidating its presence across the Middle East, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reports. Also in the News Hamas Agrees to Egyptian-Brokered Ceasefire Deal with Israel — Report August 3, 2018  •  Times of Israel Hamas leadership on Friday agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel on the condition that restrictions on the Gaza Strip's border crossings be eased, Hadashot news reported. Now they were waiting for an Israeli response after the cabinet meets Sunday. Click here to read the full story Sanctions for the Sultan August 1, 2018  •  Wall Street Journal Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become increasingly unreliable as an ally over the last decade, yet he has suffered few consequences from his NATO partners. That changed Wednesday when the Trump Administration followed through on its threat to impose sanctions on Turkey for taking an American hostage. Click here to read the full story Families of 9/11 victims look to seize Iran assets in Britain August 1, 2018  •  Reuters An English court has cleared the way to consider whether it will allow the families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to make a claim on Iranian assets in Britain. Click here to read the full story Jewish Student Leader: Anti-Zionists at John Jay College Isolating Jewish Peers Over Israel July 31, 2018  •  The Algemeiner Anti-Zionist activists at John Jay College in New York City are socially ostracizing Jewish students as part of their campaign against Israel, a student leader told The Algemeiner. Click here to read the full story Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was saved from Libya by Royal Navy July 31, 2018  •  The Times The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May last year had been rescued from Libya by the Royal Navy three years earlier. Click here to read the full story The IPT accepts no funding from outside the United States, or from any governmental agency or political or religious institutions. Your support of The Investigative Project on Terrorism is critical in winning a battle we cannot afford to lose. All donations are tax-deductible. Click here to donate online. 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