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US Faces Challenges on Estimates of Afghan Islamist Forces
December 18, 2018
The US military's latest quarterly report on estimates of Taliban forces in Afghanistan faces ongoing challenges in accuracy of numbers and capacity, since the focus on the Taliban fails to take into account the full ecosystem of Islamist extremist actors operating in the Southwest Asian state.
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Women Shed Light on al-Shabaab’s Vulnerabilities
December 18, 2018
The East African jihadi group al-Shabaab is expanding its regional footprint by actively recruiting women and conscripting children by force, while women who have escaped the extremist Islamist group reveal that the best antidotes to recruitment tactics are economic development and access to education.
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Egypt’s Islamic Legal Authorities Use Animation to Counter Extremism
December 18, 2018
One of Egypt’s most prestigious centers for Islamic legal research, Dar-al-Ifta, has rolled out a new program of animated shorts and graphics intended as an innovative mechanism for educating the country’s Muslim-majority population about Islam that counters the growing appeal of Islamist extremist forces active from Cairo to the Sinai.
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World Bank, OIC Prepare New Joint Report on Sharia Finance
December 18, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Islamic Development Bank and the World Bank are preparing their second in a series of global reports on sharia-compliant/compatible finance.
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OIC Trains Junior Diplomats to Promote Global Islamic Agenda
December 18, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has instituted regular training courses for junior diplomats, with a curriculum for building diplomatic capacity for promoting the agenda of the OIC to protect the rights of all Muslims globally according to sharia teachings.
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