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French President Aims to Reform Islam
April 18, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing skepticism regarding his ambitious project to reform Islam, drawing on historical examples of French state efforts to centralize control over religion and working with a controversial French Islamic cleric to build a national French Islam free of foreign Islamist radical influence and opposed to the use of violence.
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American IS Children Face Legal Limbo
April 18, 2018
Many US citizen children whose parents fought for the Islamic State (IS) now languish in refugee camps and detention centers with no clear legal path for a return to America and escape from the IS horror to which they were subjected unwillingly as minors.
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UNICEF Warns of Broad Threat of Boko Haram
April 18, 2018
Figures from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) indicate that the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has abducted over 1,000 children in northeastern Nigeria, killed nearly 2,300 teachers, and destroyed over 1,400 schools in its campaign to impose sharia law across West Africa.
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UN Hosts Forum on Countering Extremism Among Youth
April 18, 2018
The UN recently hosted a forum at its headquarters in New York to focus on how governments and other actors must invest in youth who are at risk of "disempowerment and alienation" and thereby susceptible to violent extremist narratives, including through social media.
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Spain Files Terrorism Charges over Bar Brawl
April 18, 2018
Amnesty International has criticized the charging of eight people in Spain on terrorism charges over their participation in a bar brawl, warning the charges are part of a trend of overbroad use of a Spanish counter-terrorism law to "criminalize behaviour that is far removed from any threat of terrorism."
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