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OIC Delegation Visit to Sri Lanka Combines Post-Conflict Reconciliation and UN Politics
September 17, 2014
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), which has a history of regular involvement as a conflict-resolution advisor on violence against Sri Lanka's Muslim minority, has been invited by the Colombo government to visit villages rebuilt since summer communal riots in the country, a visit that some experts describe as Colombo's move to secure OIC leverage with the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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OIC Member-States Criticize UN for Imposing Human Rights to Counter Islamic Values
September 10, 2014
Arab and Muslim groups whose member-states belong to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) and to the UN Human Rights Council criticized the UN body for using universal human rights as a pretext for strong-arming countries to accept values that are contradictory to Islamic norms and, instead, pointed to the OIC Human Rights Council as a source of acceptable human rights principles.
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Saudi Religious Police Apologize After Beating British Citizen at Supermarket
September 10, 2014
Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Mutawa), charged with policing society for deviations from Wahhabi Islam, issued a rare apology to a British businessman who was beaten outside a Riyadh supermarket for violating sharia by shopping with his wife in a women-only cashier line.
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Boko Haram Continues Slow Expansion from Nigeria into Neighboring African States
September 10, 2014
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is using its platform in Nigeria, where it has proclaimed a local caliphate in the towns under its control, to expand the battle to impose sharia in Africa, staging several recent attacks on Christian villages in neighboring Cameroon.
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Islamic State Issues Banking Orders in Mosul to Help Finance Caliphate
September 10, 2014
The Islamic State (“IS”) has issued strict limitations on Mosul residents' access to their bank accounts, designed to help finance the new Islamist Caliphate by drawing on cash resources from Shia Muslims, Sunnis deemed "enemies of Islam," and Christians and other religious minorities in the parts of Iraq under IS control.
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