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Turkey Engages in Re-Islamization of Culture, Politics, Education
December 18, 2018
NATO ally Turkey’s revitalization of its Ottoman Islamic caliphate roots under the Islamist government that has ruled the country for almost two decades is based on domestic re-Islamization policies that include shifts in culture, education, and politics.
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Bosnian Authorities Arrest Islamist Militant Linked to Embassy Attack
December 18, 2018
Bosnian police arrested an individual with ties to the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front on suspicion of plotting terrorist activities in Bosnia and for suspected assistance to the Islamist militant who perpetrated the 2011 attack on the US Embassy in Bosnia’s capital city of Sarajevo.
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UAE Sentences British Researcher to Life Imprisonment
December 18, 2018
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court sentenced a British doctoral researcher to life imprisonment over spying allegations after months of confinement without access to legal counsel and a trial lasting less than five minutes, underscoring the human-rights abuses and rule-of-law violations common to Islamist theocratic regimes of the Arabian Gulf Region.
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Turkey’s Islamist President Criticizes "Commoditization" of Women in West
December 17, 2018
Turkey’s President has declared that gender equality is intrinsic to Islam and condemned the West for “commoditization of women” in his address to the 3rd International Women and Justice Summit convened in Istanbul by Turkey’s Women and Democracy Association.
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UK Regulators Allow Broadcasting of Banned Islamist Preacher
December 17, 2018
The Henry Jackson Society has critiqued the UK’s Office of Communications for “material failure” to protect viewers by permitting an Indian Islamic preacher banned from entering the UK because of national security concerns to broadcast on UK-licensed television stations.
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