ways from changes in voting patterns and military
recruitment; to the proliferation of Islamist groups espousing goals
antithetical to Western values and interests; to the development of
no-go zones where traditional Islamic law, or Shari'a, is replacing
Western law; to Islamist attempts to influence and exploit European
policies toward conflicts in the Muslim world.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

The advance of the Islamic State in Syria and al-Sham (ISIS), currently
known as the Islamic State, has focused the international spotlight over
Syria and Iraq, as ISIS has taken control over huge swathes of the two
countries. Although Lebanon has managed to stay off the international
radar, instability and sectarianism leave the country equally vulnerable
to this growing threat in the region.

About the authorAli Hammad was born in 1971 and has Bahrainian citizenship. He has married a citizen of Bosnia andHerzegovina Federation and has two juvenile children with her. He is currently imprisoned in the Zenica jail (BH), since 1997, because of a crime which he may or may not have committed. He had left secondary school, chemical and biological program, but omitted the final year for the grave situation which he was then experiencing. Then, he had continued to attend the unrecognized and forbidden Military Academy in Ossama bin Laden's training camp "Cooliet Javer el-Askhariye" in Afghanistan and finished it in BH from 1992 to 1995. He is former military officer in the counter-attack infantry in the terrorist network "Al-Qaida", and thereafter he resigned from it after the terrorist attack on September 11th. Now, he has become an active member of international counter-terrorist organization and participant in