Posts Tagged: Al Qaida
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...
What CAIR Shares in Common With Synagogue Hostage Taker
Most Americans may not have heard of Aafia Siddiqui before Saturday, when a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, and took the rabbi...
How the Media’s 9/11 Anniversary Coverage Shifted From a Critical Look at Al-Qaeda to Attacking America
Whispered first -- and then shouted from the dust and wreckage of the morning of September 11, 2001, came the words that have become a...
American Islamists Pay Tribute to Bin Laden Sympathizer
Just days before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, American Islamists hosted a memorial ceremony for a hard-line Kashmiri separatist leader who had reportedly...
Don’t Omit the ‘Why’ of September 11, 2001
"But the enemy is not just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy. The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more...
CAIR Lectures Media About Accurately Quoting Jihadists
On Monday, after Kabul fell, Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem said that it was "a great day for the Afghan people and the mujahideen. They have...
Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan Stokes Fears of Renewed Terrorism Against Israel, Western Allies
As the Taliban pledged a policy of no "internal or external enemies" on Tuesday following its seizure of the Afghan capital Kabul, Israel and Western...
New Study Shows Islamist Violence Remains Top Terror Threat
Islamist extremism remains the most threatening form of terrorism worldwide by far, according to the latest Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020 report. Among the top...
Why Religious Terrorist Groups Are Often the Hardest to Defeat
Religious terrorist organizations, primarily Islamist groups, are far more likely than other ideologically-motivated groups to launch and fight a sustained insurgency, a new study shows. Most...
Corpus Christi Shooter Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda Sources
Social media posts by Corpus Christi naval air station shooter Adam Alsahli indicate he supported key figures linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and attended a...
Is Europe Facing Another Decade of Jihad?
For most of Europe, the end of 2019 marked the close of a decade of jihad, of terrorist attacks in the streets, of bombers, shooters,...
Terrorism Forgotten: Why America Lacks Interest in Ongoing Jihadi Threat
If, one year after 9/11, an individual originally from India drove a van full of propane tanks into the front gate of a California Air...
The Dangers of a Muslim Brotherhood Terror Designation
Amid reports that the Trump administration is considering designating Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, several longtime Brotherhood watchdogs and critics are urging caution. The...
We Must Start Watching Released Terrorists, as John Walker Lindh Is Set to Walk Free
On May 23, the gates of the FCI-Terre Haute Federal prison will swing open, and convicted Islamic terrorist John Walker Lindh will walk free. His...
