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Local Muslim Communities in U.S. Launch Initiatives to Counter Radical Islamist Youth Recruiting Efforts
May 05, 2015
Local Muslim community organizations in major U.S. cities, such as Boston and Minneapolis, are launching and coordinating initiatives that include anti-bullying/harrassment support programs and religious curricular materials for Muslim youth, in a preventive effort to counter youth recruitment efforts by the Islamic State ("IS") and other extremist Islamist groups active around the world.
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IS Uses Sharia Courts to Commit Mass Executions of Iraqi Yezidis
May 04, 2015
The jihadi organization known as The Islamic State ("IS") executed 600 Yezidi hostages in Iraq's Nineveh Plain, based on the decision of the fanatic Islamist group's Sharia Court, thereby further endangering the religious minority targeted by IS for violent religious cleansing.
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Boko Haram's African Jihad Takes Aim at Children
May 04, 2015
Boko Haram, the violent Islamist extremist movement waging jihad in West Africa, is using multiple terror tactics which target children, including school kidnappings, forced conscription into militias, and systematic physical and psychological abuse of child hostages and conscripts.
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OIC and China Pledge to Strengthen Ties
May 04, 2015
The conclusion of a high-level delegation visit to China by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") produced a strategic agreement for enhancement of political, economic and cultural cooperation between Beijing and the 57-member-state entity, although the OIC stressed its priorities as the condition of Muslims in China.
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OIC Chief Calls for Integration of Media and Message for Muslim World
May 01, 2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") has called for OIC member-states to develop integrated media organs, aimed toward combating Islamophobia and reshaping media messages about linkages between Islam and violence.
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