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OIC Supports Global Blasphemy Protections for Islam
January 21, 2015
Despite condemning the recent violence against Charlie Hebdo, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") has not altered its policy priority of lobbying for global blasphemy laws that would criminalize any criticism against Islam.
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Muslim Leaders Called to Denounce Islamism as Totalitarian Deviation from Islam
January 21, 2015
Some Muslim public intellectuals are calling on Muslim leaders to explicitly condemn Islamism as a totalitarian deviation from Islam's teachings and to reject combating Islamophobia as a justification for keeping silent about violent extremist Islamism.
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Islamic State Takes Japanese Hostages in Mideast
January 21, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") is demanding a $200 million ransom, a boost to the Islamist extremist group's coffers, in order not to behead two Japanese hostages taken as revenge for Japan's participation in the international coalition against the IS jihadi campaign in Syria and Iraq.
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Radicalization of China's Uighur Muslims Driven by Varied Causes
January 21, 2015
China's large Uighur population, Turkic Muslims concentrated in Xinjiang Province, are becoming increasingly radicalized, due to the combined effects of China's repressive minorities policy, aggressive recruitment by Salafist jihadi groups from the Mideast, and human trafficking networks that move Uighurs through Turkey into Islamist extremist groups there and in Iraq and Syria.
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Global Islamic Group Contemplates Blasphemy Lawsuit
January 20, 2015
The Secretary General of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), the global Islamic group that has long lobbied the United Nations to pass a global blasphemy law against criticism of Islam, announced that the OIC is pursuing legal means to prosecute the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo for offending Islam by the new round of cartoons published by the paper.
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