Posts Tagged: Abigail R. Esman
‘Salafist Police’ Are Targeting Westernized European Muslims
Some call them the Salafist police. Others say they are just ordinary extremists. Either way, they are terrorizing other Muslims in the Netherlands, radicalizing Muslim...
Turkish Fury Over 6-Year-Old Bride Could Change Country’s Future
It was a game, the child's father and his friend told her. They would visit a photographer. She would wear a beautiful white dress. But by...
Europe Grapples with Independent Koran Schools Radicalizing Students
The exam is multiple choice, with questions about the treatment of enemies -- homosexuals, for instance, and unbelievers. How should they be punished, the children...
Is 2023 the Year of Jihad’s Resurgence?
A machete attack in New York's Times Square. A stabbing at the Gare du Nord in Paris. A foiled plot in Germany. A shooting in...
Victim Jihad: The Strategy Behind the Jailed Terrorists’ Complaints
Saleh Abdeslam is angry. They weren't nice to him during his first trial in Brussels, in 2018, when he was found guilty of "attempted murder in...
Middle Eastern Women Demand to Be Set Free
She walked along Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi, a bustling pedestrian thoroughfare lined with shops and restaurants, crowded with street performers, chestnut carts, and couples on a...
How Iran’s Hijab Protesters Are Fighting for Muslim Women Everywhere
Havva still remembers how it felt the first time she walked in public without a headscarf. "I felt powerful, she recalls now, nearly two decades...
Persecuted at Home, Iran’s Christian Converts Finding Europe’s Doors Closed
It was Hassan's brother-in-law who inspired him. "He said ... there is a treasure, there is a living God, Jesus Christ, and we are his...
In Belgium, Jihadists, Guns, and (Drug) Money
Gunshots. Knifings. Cars being set aflame. All in broad daylight, all on the streets of Molenbeek. Molenbeek, Belgium, you may recall, was the Brussels neighborhood that...
Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel
The announcement came just recently on social media: the folk band Big Thief would not be performing as scheduled in Tel Aviv. It was a...
Islamist Rise Puts Women at Risk in Turkey
For millions of women in Turkey, life has just become more dangerous. And that puts the future of the entire country at risk. At least one...
The Increasing Danger Facing Women in Turkey
There was Aylin Sozer in Istanbul, whose former boyfriend slit her throat and then burned her alive. There was 23-year-old Sule Cet, raped by her boss...
Getting Away with Murder: The Campaign to End Kuwait’s Honor Crimes Law
After her uncle raped her, after she'd discovered she was pregnant, after she had given birth to her uncle's child, after she'd returned home again,...
Dutch Consider Sending Funds to Terror-Linked NGOs
It was an inspired moment. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had gathered to discuss next year's budget; and as they debated humanitarian issues in...
