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Islamic Home Financing in Indonesia Leads to Segregation
August 30, 2018
The effort of Indonesian banks to increase sharia-compliant/compatible financing for home mortgage and housing developments is leading to segregated, faith-based residential areas that are aggravating social cleavages and creating pressures against non-Muslim minority communities in the country.
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Pakistan’s New Prime Minister Plays Blasphemy Card
August 29, 2018
Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan is pushing for a global anti-blasphemy law supported by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as the centerpiece of his government’s policy, catering to domestic and foreign Islamist extremists who endorse the death penalty for speech considered blasphemy against Islam.
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IS Cleansing of Syria's Christians Is One of Caliphate's Legacies
August 29, 2018
One of the legacies of the Islamic State's (!S) caliphate regime in Iraq and Syria is the near-erasure of Syria's ancient Assyrian Christian communities, the consequence of church destruction, kidnapping and killing of hostages, and the exodus of Christian groups.
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IS Cells Claim Attack on Kabul School
August 29, 2018
Islamic State (IS) cells have claimed a recent high-casualty suicide bombing attack on a university prep school in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, signaling the group's targeting of education and youth to ensure control over ideas, literacy, and discourses that could challenge the Islamist extremists' worldview.
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Bans on Face Coverings Multiply Across Europe
August 21, 2018
The Washington Post reports that Denmark recently became the fifth European country to ban face coverings in public - including the Muslim niqab - as politicians, backed by favorable rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and using cultural and security justifications, increasingly turn to national and local laws banning the Islamic veil.
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