Global Political Islam

  • Millenials to Drive 21st Century Islamic Finance Growth

    February 19, 2021

    Arabian Business reports that British experts assess that millennials will be the key drivers of global expansion in Sharia-based/compatible financial products and profits, catalyzed by demands ethical finance in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as innovations in Islamic financial technology (fintech). 

  • Islamic Solidarity Fund Linked to OIC Influence Networks

    February 19, 2021

    The Islamic Solidarity Fund (ISF), a subsidiary organ of the global, multilateral Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is financing new development projects in six member-states, five in Africa and one in the Mideast, expanding the OIC’s transcontinental influence and integration impacts in educational, cultural, and economic sectors. 

  • Pakistan PM: Islam a Religion of Peace

    February 19, 2021

    Pakistan Today reports that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan called on the country’s Islamic clerics and legal scholars to become active in combatting islamophobia in Western countries that don’t recognize that “Islam as a religion of peace”.

  • BBC: Pandemic Helps IS Resurgence in NE Syria

    February 15, 2021

    IS militants, who reconstituted their forces underground, are making gains towards the goal of recapturing control in northeast Syria, expanding practices of beheadings, kidnaps for ransom, and suicide bombings, following the ejection of Syrian government and Kurdish resistance forces as well as local police’s focus on pandemic security priorities. 

  • Experts Brief UN Security Council on Potential Islamist Attacks in COVID Context

    February 15, 2021

    ABC News reports that a a panel of security experts briefed the UN Security Council on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the threat of violent Islamism, with empirical evidence showing how redirection of law enforcement resources towards pandemic management actually created permissive conditions for Islamist extremism in already existing conflict zones.

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