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US Man Faces Prosecution for Exporting Equipment to Iran
May 29, 2019
The US Justice Department has indicted a New Hampshire man for federal crimes related to his export of US Defense Department (DoD) equipment to Iran, alleging that he purchased sensitive DoD materials for export to the Islamist regime in Iran via a Turkish front company.
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Islamists Push Back Against Newly Elected Indonesian President
May 29, 2019
Indonesian Islamists are contesting the country’s presidential election results, rejecting the non-Islamist president-elect and leading to a possible escalation in a cycle of Islamist militancy and government repression that could weaken democracy in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.
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OIC Summit Will Focus on Israel, Islamophobia
May 29, 2019
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is intensifying calls for worldwide Muslim solidarity and mobilization on "justice for the Palestinian cause" and on combating the “global problem of Islamophobia" in the runup to the forthcoming OIC Islamic Summit of Foreign Ministers.
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Indonesian Government Pushes Digitization of Mosque Donations
May 29, 2019
The President of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, announced the government’s new strategy to digitize funding to the country’s mosques as a means of ramping up sharia-finance infrastructure development and growing the national market share of sharia-compatible banks.
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Muslim Leader Criticizes German Religious-Awareness Initiative
May 29, 2019
The Turkish-born Muslim chairman of a local advisory council for foreigners in the Western German city of Maintal has publicly criticized an initiative sponsored by city councils that aim to raise interfaith and multicultural awareness by posting religious FAQs in local pubs and restaurants.
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