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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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IRS Tax Laws Could Counter Islamist Extremism in Universities
April 17, 2018
Recent commentary explains how America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) codes offer a potentially untapped set of legal tools for preventing the spread of Islamist extremist sympathies in the American higher education system.
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Turkey's Islamist Government Uses Hostage Diplomacy
April 17, 2018
Turkey's Islamist regime has offered to trade American pastor Andrew Brunson, who is on trial in Turkish courts on muddled espionage and terrorism charges that could put him in prison for life, for the US's extradition of Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen, part of a hostage diplomacy policy that Ankara has also deployed by kidnapping and detaining a range of citizens in other countries.
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Arab League Supports Funds for Islamic Sites in Jerusalem
April 17, 2018
National leaders from the Arab League membership stretching from the Mideast and Africa, meeting in Saudi Arabia for a "Jerusalem Summit" to protest the US decision to transfer America's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, united behind Saudi Arabia's commitment of $150 million to preserve Islamic cultural and religious sites in East Jerusalem.
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OIC Positions Youth, Sports as Platform for Transnational Islamic Unity
April 17, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is holding its fourth Islamic Conference of Youth and Sports Ministers in the capital city of active OIC member-state Azerbaijan, with a focus on sports as a platform for an integrated set of social and economic initiatives designed to empower youth through education, sports, and activism under a united, transnational Islamic identity.
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