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Saudi Arabia Uses Executions to Silence Critics of Wahhabi Regime
April 15, 2020
According to a report issued by British human rights organization Reprieve, Saudi Arabia’s Islamist theocratic leadership uses executions as a tool of choice to silence critics of the Wahhabi regime, with a doubling in the execution rate to reach a total of 800 individuals in the last five years.
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AP Study Shows Systemic Sexual Abuse of Children in Pakistan’s Islamic Studies Schools
April 15, 2020
An Associated Press (AP) News Agency study of Pakistan’s Islamic studies schools (madrassas) documents the systemic sexual abuse of male and female children by Islamic clerics and teachers, as well as evidence of widespread failure of police and courts to arrest and persecute accused perpetrators.
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Frantzman: Shiite Sectarian Influence Grows in Iraq
April 15, 2020
Writing in Foreign Policy, Seth Frantzman argues that Shiite Islamist sectarian influence in the political social, and religious infrastructures of Iraq has grown steadily over the past half decade, threatening to consolidate a pro-Iranian influence under the umbrella of Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
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MEMRI: State Media and Ministry of Religious Affairs in Turkey Promote Religious Extremism
April 15, 2020
State-supported media reports in Turkey and sermons issued by the state's Ministry of Religious Affairs regularly use discursive tropes advocating jihad, praising martyrdom through jihad, and a return to the caliphate as the means to end the imposition of democracy in the Muslim world.
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COVID-19 Will Expose MENA Region to Growing Islamist Sectarianism and Jihadist Activities
April 15, 2020
Writing in the The National Interest, Colin Clarke and Hajer Naili opine that It is likely that the COVID-19 pandemic will result in the intensification of Islamist sectarianism and the expansion of jihadists’ operations across the Middle East and North Africa ("MENA"), which is already a politically and economically weak region.
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