Abigail R. Esman
ARTICLES BY: Abigail R. Esman
The Jihadist Threat Stills Exists — and Is an Urgent Problem
Has the jihadist threat simply become run-of-the-mill? Or has it just disappeared? You might think either of these to be the case, given how little the...
‘Salafist Police’ Are Targeting Westernized European Muslims
Some call them the Salafist police. Others say they are just ordinary extremists. Either way, they are terrorizing other Muslims in the Netherlands, radicalizing Muslim...
Turkish Fury Over 6-Year-Old Bride Could Change Country’s Future
It was a game, the child's father and his friend told her. They would visit a photographer. She would wear a beautiful white dress. But by...
Europe Grapples with Independent Koran Schools Radicalizing Students
The exam is multiple choice, with questions about the treatment of enemies -- homosexuals, for instance, and unbelievers. How should they be punished, the children...
Is 2023 the Year of Jihad’s Resurgence?
A machete attack in New York's Times Square. A stabbing at the Gare du Nord in Paris. A foiled plot in Germany. A shooting in...
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...
Middle Eastern Women Demand to Be Set Free
She walked along Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi, a bustling pedestrian thoroughfare lined with shops and restaurants, crowded with street performers, chestnut carts, and couples on a...
How Iran’s Hijab Protesters Are Fighting for Muslim Women Everywhere
Havva still remembers how it felt the first time she walked in public without a headscarf. "I felt powerful, she recalls now, nearly two decades...
Persecuted at Home, Iran’s Christian Converts Finding Europe’s Doors Closed
It was Hassan's brother-in-law who inspired him. "He said ... there is a treasure, there is a living God, Jesus Christ, and we are his...
Black Market Repatriation of ISIS Families Fosters New Threats
When Samir Azzuz was convicted of financing terrorism last month in the Netherlands, it was not the Dutch-Moroccan's first terrorism rodeo: in 2006, as a...
In Belgium, Jihadists, Guns, and (Drug) Money
Gunshots. Knifings. Cars being set aflame. All in broad daylight, all on the streets of Molenbeek. Molenbeek, Belgium, you may recall, was the Brussels neighborhood that...
Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel
The announcement came just recently on social media: the folk band Big Thief would not be performing as scheduled in Tel Aviv. It was a...
American Guns; American Rage
Assault rifle bans. Red flag laws. Mental health support. Background checks. Locked schoolrooms. Armed teachers. Armed doctors. Armed clergy. Each a “solution” to America’s ghastly epidemic of gun violence. As if it...
Islamist Rise Puts Women at Risk in Turkey
For millions of women in Turkey, life has just become more dangerous. And that puts the future of the entire country at risk. At least one...
