Why is ISIS Minting It’s Own Currency?
The media was fascinated this week by reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) is moving to produce its own currency,...
Understanding the Shariah Threat Doctrine
Understanding ISIS Motivations: The Battle of the Bios
An article published by Reuters recently looked at recruitment for the Islamic State (ISIS) and concluded, as noted in the...
Pinpointing Why?
In a press conference discussing the threat facing the Kurds of Kobanî, on the border with Turkey, Pentagon Spokesman Rear...
Confronting the Islamic State abroad, advancing an Islamic state at home
Following on the heels of targeted airstrikes against the Islamic State, the Obama Administration has continued to show a dramatic...
The “Khorasan Group”, New Name, Old Threat
Recent media coverage has been bombarded by revelations of a "new terror threat", "more dangerous than ISIS", the Khorasan Group....
ISIS’s New Threat is Anything But New
In a new release on Sunday from chief propagandist of the Islamic State (or Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham), Shaykh...
Clare Lopez with Q Society in Sydney, Australia
Clare Lopez at the Q Society event in Sydney on the evening of 5 September 2014. Her topic is "Jihad...
Media Confused as Boko Haram Claims to Join the Islamic State
In a video released over the weekend, AbuBakr Shekaku, head of the Nigerian jihadist group known as Boko Haram, appears...
Jihadis and Fellow Travelers Want a USG Re-Education Program
In a chilling 14 August 2014 letter to Lisa O. Monaco, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor at the National Security Council (NSC),...
Too Brutal-The Death of James Wright Foley
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), which claims the mantle of Islamic caliphate, has recent released a video...
Flynn is Right, Ideology is The Problem
LT. General Michael Flynn, outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency recently told an audience at the Aspen Institute that...
Shariah Threat Analysis: The establishment of a ‘Caliphate’
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has announced a new caliphate and formally declared the creation of an...
Don’t Call It A Caliphate, Yet: ISIS May Run Afoul of Islamic Law
The news over the weekend that the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) had declared as Caliph of the...
Islamic Values vs. Judeo-Christian Values
My dear friend Ali Sina mentioned in his most recent article that a Muslim professor, Hossein Askari, believes that Western...
ISIS-Not “Mafia Tactics”- Jihad
An article in yesterday’s Foreign Policy discusses the self-funding tactics of the ISIS, as it continues to wage its brutal...
Ramping Down the War on Terror? The Enemy Gets a Vote
National security officials are making known that they do not concur with the Obama Administration’s assessment that the “War on...