Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:10 am CEST
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Filling the Governmental Vacuum by the Al-Nusra Front and Other Jihadist Organizations

Al-Nusra Front and other jihadist organizations place considerable importance on establishing a governmental alternative in the so-called “liberated territories”… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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Description of the Al-Nusra Front’s Military Activity

The Al-Nusra Front combines guerilla warfare against the Assad regime, the Syrian army and security apparatuses with indiscriminate acts of terrorism against civilians… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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The Human Composition of the Al-Nusra Front

The Al-Nusra Front consists of a core group of Iraqi Al-Qaeda and Syrian Salafist-jihadi operatives joined by thousands of volunteers from the Arab/Muslim world and the West… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:08 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Structure, Leadership and Functioning

The military frameworks of the Al-Nusra Front may in the long run create jihadist core networks in other countries… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:08 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Ideology

The Al-Nusra Front is inspired by Al-Qaeda’s ideology… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:07 am CEST
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The Founding of the Al-Nusra Front and its Collaboration with Other Rebel Organizations

The Syrian civil war can be viewed in the wider context of the intense upheaval that is currently gripping the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:07 am CEST
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Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda Salafist-Jihadi network, Seeks to Establish an Islamic Caliphate in Greater Syria

The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s representative in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, September 7, 2013 at 15:08 pm CEST
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The Deliberate Muslim Brotherhood Violence in Cairo Fostering the “Victimization and Martyrdom” Narrative

Muslim Brothers’ desire for death through self-sacrifice… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Arab Spring • Copts • Egypt • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamization • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, July 5, 2013 at 21:05 pm CEST
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Egypt: A Teachable Moment in World History

What has just happened in Egypt is a teachable moment in world history… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion 
Posted on Wed, June 26, 2013 at 21:56 pm CEST
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Arab World War Two: Sunni versus Shia

The Arabic-speaking world is gearing up for a massive Sunni versus Shia bloodbath… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Culture • Global Islam • History • Religion • Sunni-Shia Conflict 
Posted on Wed, June 26, 2013 at 21:34 pm CEST
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi Calls on Muslims to Support the Rebels in Syria

Al-Qaradawi’s remarks reflect the deepening Sunni-Shi’ite schism in the Middle East… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Religion • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Mon, June 24, 2013 at 21:22 pm CEST
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Unlike Madonna, the Middle East Isn’t a “Material Girl”

The problem is radical ideology in command on the sides of both leaders and the masses… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Culture • Islamism • Religion • The Middle East • Western Culture 
Posted on Mon, June 24, 2013 at 21:20 pm CEST
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How to Understand Islamism: Read What its Leaders Actually Say

It’s easy to see why al-Qaradawi is the leading Sunni Islamist thinker in the world today… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Global Islam • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:37 pm CEST
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The Price Hezbollah Pays for Supporting the Syrian Regime

Being drawn into the Syrian civil war forced Hezbollah to pay both a political price and a price to its image in the Arab-Muslim world… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:36 pm CEST
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Hezbollah Support for the Syrian Regime

Hezbollah supports the Syrian regime as the civil war drags on… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:36 pm CEST
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Hezbollah Involvement in the Syrian Civil War

For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, June 22, 2013 at 13:31 pm CEST
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Obama Doctrine: Backing Middle East Radicals After 10 Previous Western Failures

History has shown that backing radical Arabic-speaking states or movements to redo the regional order have all ended badly… Continue reading

Topics: History • Islamofascism • Jew-Hatred • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Nazi Germany • Obamaism • Politics • Religion 
Posted on Sat, June 22, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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Violence and Context in Islamic Texts

Knee-jerk proof-texting of the “Islam is peace” claim will benefit no one… Continue reading

Topics: Australia • Global Islam • Global Jihad • History • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sun, June 2, 2013 at 23:04 pm CEST
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Wilders in Australia and the “Islamic Problem” – Part II

Part 2 of Geert Wilders in Australia and the “Islamic Problem”… Continue reading

Topics: Australia • Geert Wilders • Global Islam • Human Rights • Religion 
Posted on Sun, June 2, 2013 at 21:01 pm CEST
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Wilders in Australia and the “Islamic Problem” – Part 1

Part 1 of Geert Wilders in Australia and the “Islamic Problem”… Continue reading

Topics: Australia • Geert Wilders • Global Islam • Human Rights • Netherlands • Religion 
Posted on Mon, May 27, 2013 at 23:04 pm CEST
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The Woolwich Killing

“We will never stop fighting you”… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • Global Islam • Islamic Terrorism • Islamofascism • Jihadism • Religion 
Posted on Fri, February 15, 2013 at 22:15 pm CET
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How Arab Governments Manage the Israel Issue

Using the Israel issue is so attractive and useful because there is a lot of popular support for this attitude… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Culture • History • Israel • Jew-Hatred • Religion 
Posted on Sun, February 10, 2013 at 00:30 am CET
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The U.S. versus the ‘Shi’ite Crescent’?

Is U.S. Middle East policy aligned with the ‘Sunni bloc’ in a grand sectarian alliance against the ‘Shi’ite crescent’?… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Religion • Sunni-Shia Conflict • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, February 5, 2013 at 00:38 am CET
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Spain and Muslim Apostasy

The Spanish authorities are trying to remove Imran Firasat from Spain, even though they are aware that he very well might be killed in Pakistan or Indonesia for blasphemy… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Human Rights • Indonesia • Pakistan • Religion • Spain 
Posted on Thu, January 31, 2013 at 20:18 pm CET
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Yemen’s Forgotten Christians

The story of Yemen’s Christians is a microcosm of the story of Islam’s Christians… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Human Rights • Religion • Sharia Law • Yemen