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Sharia and Anti-Terrorism Laws the Keys to Silencing Dissent in Saudi Arabia
July 10, 2014
Saudi Arabia continues to combine new anti-terrorism legislation with sharia law in order to silence internal dissent over the regime's human rights abuses, applying corporal punishments such as public lashings and beheadings.
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Experts Predict Sharp Growth in Islamic Banking in Short Term
July 10, 2014
International financial experts predict a sharp expansion in the total assets, products, and profitability of Islamic banking over the next four years, based on growing integration of trade and capital markets in Turkey, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region.
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Twitter Caves in to Islamist Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
July 10, 2014
Social media colossus Twitter has caved into Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws by agreeing to censor tweets considered "insulting to Islam."
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Does the U.S. Know It's Supporting Jihadis in Syria?
July 10, 2014
Questions are being raised about U.S. military assistance being channeled to Harakat Hazm, a jihadist group supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey, and Qatar, that has cleverly rebranded itself by dropping its initial moniker of "fight against the disbelievers collectively" and successfully garnering the imprimatur of some Washington think-tankers as "a moderate/secularist faction, not an extremist/jihadist group."
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Uighur Muslims Escalating Violence in China
July 10, 2014
Uighur Turkic Muslims, who are concentrated in China's western region of Xinjang, are the suspected perpetrators of another suicide bombing this week in the region's capital, signaling the Uighurs' turn to radical Islamism in the face of China's repressive human rights practices against religious and ethnic minorities.
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