-
Turkey's State Is Colonized by Diverse Islamist Groups
July 20, 2022
NATO-member Turkey's state apparatus, including the key institutional environments of the judiciary, police, health services, and education, has been colonized by a diverse range of Islamist brotherhoods and affiliated extremist nationalist organizations, all in the wake of the 2013 Gezi Park anti-government protests and the 2016 coup attempt that produced the rupture between Turkey's ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP) and its former Islamist partner.
-
Resilience of Islamism Supported by Leadership’s Longterm Time Horizons
July 15, 2022
The defeat of Islamist political parties across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has not meant the elimination of Islamism as a threat, both because extremist actors have proven resilient as alternatives to the political repression and economic marginalization imposed by of huge authoritarian regimes of the MENA and because Islamist leaders work according to a long time horizon that allows for recovery, adaptation, and regeneration.
-
Global Standards for Dispute Resolution Constrains Expansion of Islamic Finance
July 13, 2022
The rapid global expansion of sharia-compliant/compatible finance and banking services is generating an intensifying demand for international standards of legal and financial dispute resolution that frequently position Islamic laws against civil jurisprudence.
-
Saudi Islamic Theocracy Runs Female Detention Centers for “Social Correction”
July 13, 2022
Saudi Arabia’s Islamic theocratic has touted its relaxation of draconian religious laws regulating all aspects of civil society, but women designated by their either their families or the patriarchal judicial system are subjected to hidden detention centers where corporal punishment and psychological abuse is imposed to accomplish “social correction” that forces conformity to the Islamist laws and cultural practices that keep women in second class status.
-
Violence Spike at Af-Pak Border Reveals Global Security Threat from Islamists in South Asia
July 12, 2022
Since the Taliban resurgence and eventual establishment of an Islamic emirate in Afghanistan, the North Waziristan provincial border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af-Pak) has become a renewed global security threat from Islamist extremist groups using the proofs space to launch attacks against both Pakistani military forces and civilian targets.
Copyright 2024 Global Governance Watch. All Rights Reserved.
A project of The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies