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Pakistan Council Condemns Religious Radicalism, Violence
January 09, 2019
More than 500 Muslim clerics under the aegis of the Pakistan Ulema Council gathering in the country’s capital of Islamabad condemned violence and called for use of the judicial system and reliance on the rule of law to resolve blasphemy disputes like those that have rocked the country in the past several months.
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Political Islamism Intensifies in Run-up to Indonesian Elections
January 09, 2019
The public activism and political influence of conservative and radical Islamist groups and ideas are intensifying in the run-up to national elections in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority state, as incumbent and opposition candidates use political Islamism for their competing platforms.
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UN Agents Increase Scrutiny of Online “Hate Speech”
January 09, 2019
The Washington Post reports that UN human rights observers are increasingly studying the use of the internet to spread “anger and propaganda” to facilitate rights violations and is cultivating relationships with tech companies to persuade them to combat such content on their online platforms.
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UNESCO Brief Outlines Educational Activities to Prevent Extremism
January 09, 2019
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently published a policy brief containing global guidelines on educational practices aimed at preventing violent extremism, seeking to target the impacts of such activities on the “individual,” “structural & organisational,” and “community & social” levels.
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NGO Criticizes French Counterterrorism Measures
January 09, 2019
In November 2018, Amnesty International published a report characterizing counterterrorist “administrative control” measures in France as “bypassing the ordinary criminal justice system and its principles,” ripe for abuse, and subject to discriminatory application, including against the Muslim population.
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