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Turkey’s Sanctions Busting & Money Laundering Under Scrutiny in US Court Case on Halkbank
February 08, 2022
The US Justice Department (DOJ) is watching this weeks Manhattan Court of Appeals decision by the government of Turkey on a DOJ case charging Turkish state lender Halkbank of money laundering and sanctions busting for Iran, with a negative ruling on the appeal set to trigger a case that will put senior leadership in NATO-member Turkey at the center of judicial proceedings.
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Threat of Islamism in EU’s Largest Muslim Community Drives France’s Newly Established Forum of Islam Leadership
February 08, 2022
Jihadist attacks on French soil and the influence of foreign-trained radical imams in France’s mosques and Islamic schools have been key drivers for the French government’s move to encourage the development of a secular, inclusive, non-violent form of Islam among the largest Muslim population in any European Union (EU) member-state.
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Saudi-Iran Rapprochement Continues as Mideast’s Islamic Theocracies Look for Common Ground
February 08, 2022
The Mideast’s main Islamic theocracies, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are ready to continue beyond talks that have set the groundwork for a broader rapprochement that has already produced Iran’s reengagment in the Saudi-headquartered multilateral Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), suggesting a further Sunni-Shia sectarian detente that could reconfigure the regional and international Islamist geopolitics.
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New Forum of the Islam of France Aims to Reduce Foreign & Radical Influence
February 07, 2022
The French government's upcoming launch of the Forum of the Islam of France (Forif) replaces the 20-year-old French Council of the Muslim Faith, in a move aimed at advancing the civic interests and participation of the country's Muslim communities, by encouraging the indigenization of French Islam and reducing the influence of radical ideas and financing associated with foreign Islamist regimes such as Turkey.
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Islamist Volatility Puts Christians in Crosshairs in Latest Attack in Pakistan
February 07, 2022
In the latest episode in a pattern of violence with impunity by Islamist extremists targeting Pakistan's Chrisitan communities, two gunmen remain at large after gunning down a Christian cleric and wounding another after a local church service in the Pakistani city of Peshewar, a critical northwest border city with Afghanistan and the site of high-casuality Islamist suicide attacks in 2013 that targeted the city's Christian communities.
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