Pakistan

After negotiations resumed, he government gave into a demand by the Lal Masjid and will rebuild 2 of 7 destroyed mosques. The Umm-e-Hassan, a woman’s madrassa under the Lal Masjid, is at the forefront of enforcing sharia in Islamabad and the Talibanization of Pakistan. A Pakistani convention of ulema “declared suicide attacks un-Islamic and opposed enforcement of Sharia by force.”

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

Tags:

Iraq

Islamic state

Syria

Aqap

Al shabaab

Boko Haram

Isis