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Violent Islamist Groups Expand Footprint in Libya
December 10, 2014
The collapse of the Libyan state and the country's free-fall into civil war has seen the steady expansion and consolidation of a cluster of violent Islamist groups on Europe's Mediterranean littoral – under the administration of the MSSI, or the Islamic Youth Shura Council – loyal to the jihadi ideology and practices of both The Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
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Islamist Militants Use Iraqi Churches as Prisons
December 10, 2014
Since its proclamation of an Islamic Caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, The Islamic State (“IS”) has followed its assault on Iraq's Christian population (ordering them to convert, pay a protection tax, be killed, or leave) by turning churches in the city of Mosul into prisons and detention sites and jihadi logistical centers.
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OIC Denounces International Media Critique of FIFA in Qatar as Bias
December 04, 2014
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") has slammed international media for their inquiry into corruption and transparency failures in Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 FIFA ("International Federation of Association Football"), charging bias against Qatar and "the peoples of the Islamic world."
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UK Legal Group Steps Back from Sharia Practice Rules
December 04, 2014
The United Kingdom (U.K.) Law Society, an independent regulatory and standards association for U.K. attorneys, has withdrawn its formal practice note on "sharia succession rules," following a reexamination of the note prompted by criticism from other legal professional societies, which pointed out that sharia inheritance practices discriminate along gender, faith, and age lines.
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OIC Governments Discuss Media and Free Speech Limits to Promote Islam
December 04, 2014
Information and Communications Ministers from the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") met in Iran to discuss "media convergence for peace and calm in the Islamic world," reviewing proposals to use social media to promote "common story boards of the positive aspects of Islam" in order to counter extremist Islamist narratives, and calling on member-states to constrain freedom of expression when necessary to combat social media messages by violent extremist Islamists.
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