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Iran-Turkey Economic Ties Highlight Islamist Regimes’ Recent History of Sanctions Busting
October 11, 2022
The declared commitments by leaders of the two Islamist regimes of Iran and Turkey to increase bilateral trade and to deepen economic relations is a reminder that, despite competing versions of Islamic governance and conflicting regional geopolitical interests, Tehran and Ankara have a recent history of cooperation on a massive scale of US sanctions evasion using fraud and money laundering.
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Security Experts Predict Islamists as Winner in Burkina Faso Coup
October 10, 2022
International security experts predict that Islamists will be the big winners in the recent military coup in Burkina Faso, based on empirical evidence from coups in neighboring countries in the Sahel region whereby the Al-Qaeda-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) and the local IS franchise take advantage of political and security instability from regime changes in order to make social inroads against state institutions.
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Experts Agree Islamic Finance At Crossroads as Global Assets Hit $3.6 Trillion
October 10, 2022
Experts meeting at the recent Global Islamic Finance Forum 2022 held in Malaysia focused on how to strengthen the sharia-compatible/compliant finance industry’s global leadership position, with disagreement about how to grow the total assets of $3.6 trillion at end-2021 by either consolidating market share or radically breaking with the fractional reserve system and also moving towards a more robust Islamic philosophical approach to social impact.
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Turkey's Islamists Signal Close Ties with Muslim Brotherhood as Chief Imam Attends MB Leader Qaradawi's Funeral
October 10, 2022
Turkey's Islamist regime signaled its continuing close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood by sending the NATO member's Chief Imam, Ali Erbas, who heads the state's Director of Religious Affairs, to represent Turkey at the funeral in Qatar of the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) leading ideologue and cleric Usuf al-Qaradawi, an advocate of suicide bombings and other forms of jihadist violence worldwide.
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Al Qaeda Shows Staying Power in Horn of Africa as Al Shabaab Rocks Somalia With Triple Suicide Bombing
October 10, 2022
Al Qaeda (AQ) remains resilient and an active threat to international security, evidenced in the triple suicide bombing perpetrated by AQ's Horn of Africa franchise Al Shabab, with spillover impacts for neighboring Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
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