Global Political Islam

  • Islamic State Practicing Sexual Enslavement of Women in Iraq

    August 29, 2014

    Eye witness accounts and survivor testimonies confirm that in the  Islamic State, the caliphate covering large areas of Iraq and Syria, extremist Islamist forces are practicing systematic sexual enslavement of women, including forced conversion and marriage, gang rape, and human trafficking.

  • OIC Chief Calls ISIS Un-Islamic

    August 29, 2014

    The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") called out the Islamic State ("ISIS") as un-Islamic and a destabilizing factor in the Middle East, declaring the Islamist militants' practices harmful to Islam and incompatible with religion's teachings on tolerance.

  • Women Are Disproportionately Affected by Jihadi Violence and Extremist Oppression

    By Mariz Tadros

    August 20, 2014

    The political expansion of jihadi groups and extremist Islamist movements has had a disproportionately deleterious effect on the human rights and physical security of Muslim and non-Muslim women from across the Greater Middle East, according to reports from regional experts on gender and religious radicalism.

  • Egypt's President Sisi Embraces Repression as Control Against Destabilization of Islamic Sectarian Battles

    August 20, 2014

    Analysis of the foreign and domestic policy trends under the leadership of Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, points to his government's default position of repression to deal with the threats of destabilization and violence stemming from Islamic sectarianism.

  • Syria's Sectarian Violence and Massive Refugee Crisis Destabilize Middle East

    August 20, 2014

    The estimated nine million refugees and internally displaced people created by sectarian violence driven by Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria (and Iraq) is creating a crisis of state stability and a humanitarian catastrophe throughout the Middle East.

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