Report: Islamist Terrorism Is Long-term Threat at Home, Abroad
Islamist terrorism will never be fully eradicated, and the threat to the U.S. homeland is real: These are among the sobering conclusions of a new U.S. Institute of Peace study that traces the origins and evolution of Salafist jihadism, a phenomenon it says blindsided the U.S. in September 2001. “The Jihad Threat: ISIS, Al Qaida […]
Pakistan Opposition Politicians Slam Hard-line Cleric’s Provincial Win
Pakistani opposition political parties are expressing outrage after a hard-line cleric of a banned terror group with links to the Taliban and al-Qaida won a legislative seat in the country’s most populous province. “Rest in pieces National Action Plan,” Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party and son of slain Pakistani Prime Minister […]
Shabaab seizes Somali town after peacekeepers pullout
Fighters from al-Shabaab have seized control of yet another town in central Somalia after it was abandoned by African Union peacekeepers, according to a spokesman for the group and a local official. It was the third time this month that the al-Qaeda-affiliated group moved into a town in the region after the withdrawal of Ethiopian […]
Arizona woman allegedly helped jailed hubby with terror plot
PHOENIX — An Arizona woman accused of mailing bomb-making instructions and promotional materials from terrorist groups to a state prison in what investigators say was a plot to kill a warden was booked on suspicion of terrorism. Police say Michelle Marie Bastian, 49, of Florence, sent articles from al Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq […]
Rhode Island Man Guilty ove ISIS Plot to Behead Blogger
A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of conspiring to behead a conservative blogger and recruit others to carry out attacks on American soil in the name of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Nicholas Rovinski, 25, admitted that he had plotted with two men, David Wright and Wright’s uncle Usaamah Rahim, […]
The Awakening: What Do These Groups Have in Common?
In this short video, Dr. John Andrew Morrow explains: Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, as-Shabab, Boko Haram, an-Nusri, and ISIS – what do these groups have in common? They are all Salafis, they are all Wahabis, they are all Takfiris.
The Awakening: The Antidote to Extremism
In this short video, Dr. John Andrew Morrow explains some aspects of The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad as an antidote to extremism. The Muslim world is currently experiencing unprecedented persecution at the hands of fringe extremist ideologically-driven groups whether it is Boko Haram in the Nigeria, as-Shabab in Somalia, Al-Qaeda in North Africa and […]
We were just kids on 9/11. And no one really explained it to us.
I think it happened as I was walking from science class to civics. My civics teacher — I think her name was Ms. Jones — had the TVs on and barely addressed her class of seventh graders. Was she on the phone? With the principal? I don’t know. And this is the thing — Americans […]
How the fight against terrorism has transformed America since 9/11
Lawrence Wright is worried about what Americans have lost since 9/11. Wright, a New Yorker staff writer and the author of a seminal work on the rise of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower,” is concerned that an entire generation has grown up in a US that’s very unlike the country he remembers.
9/11 then and now: Terror, militarism, war and fear
Terrorism is a terrible thing, but it is made even more terrible and tragic when people and governments fail to react to it intelligently and allow it to perpetuate itself and expand – which is precisely what is happening today, 15 years after the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States.