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Pakistan Targets Google & Wikipedia in Latest Crackdown on Digital Freedoms
December 30, 2020
Authorities from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have demanded that Google and Wikipedia remove content deemed as offensive to Islam, including "sacrilegious and misleading" portrayals of Islam's prophet Mohammed.
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Saudi Human Rights Activist Sentenced for Challenging Sharia Law
December 30, 2020
Human rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, was given a multi-year prison sentence by Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court based on her advocacy for reforms in the sharia-based legal restrictions on women's civil rights and an end to sharia-based male guardianship laws.
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Boko Haram Targets Christians with Christmas Eve Attack
December 30, 2020
The BBC reports that Nigeria-based Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, attacked a Christian-majority village on Christmas Eve, producing multiple casualties and destruction of a church and food dispensary.
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Turkey Moves to Consolidate State Islamist Authoritarianism
December 28, 2020
According to Al-Moniter, Turkey has drafted new legislation seemingly in an effort to prevent the financing of terrorism, while Human Rights activists in the NATO Member nation and abroad are raising the alarm that the draft law increases state control over civil society in an effort to institutionalize Islamist statism.
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The Guardian: Pakistan Releases Journalist Daniel Pearl's Abductor
December 28, 2020
The Guardian reports that Pakistan’s high court released the British born Islamist extremist, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, jailed for the 2002 jihadist murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, given definitive evidence that he participated in the abduction and not in the murder.
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