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UN Agents Critique Austrian Focus on Political Islam
July 11, 2018
The UN Working Group on Mercenaries has called on Austria to avoid an “excessive” focus on punishing individuals who travel abroad to join and fight with terrorist groups and on combating political Islam as an ideology, instead emphasizing a need to “address the root causes of radicalisation and violent extremism” in a comprehensive manner.
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Pakistani Taliban Attack Targets Election Outcome
July 11, 2018
The Pakistani branch of the Afghan-based Taliban carried out a high-casualty suicide bombing at a political rally in the run-up to country’s national elections, killing a leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) perceived by the Islamist group as “secular” and warning other “anti-Islam” parties and leaders that they would be targeted.
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Germany Outlaws Gang with Links to Turkish Government
July 11, 2018
Germany’s Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer has announced a ban on Osmanen Germania BC (German Ottomans), declaring that the rapidly growing biker gang, with extensive ties to organized crime networks and with close connections to Turkey’s Islamist government, represents “a serious danger for individual legally protected rights and for the general public.”
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Iran Conducts Mass Execution of IS Militants
July 11, 2018
Iran’s Ministry of Justice has announced the mass execution of eight Islamic State (IS) militants convicted of the 2017 terrorist attacks against the country’s Parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini, the cleric who launched the 1979 revolution that led to the establishment of Iran’s Islamist theocracy.
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Facebook Faces Backlash over Censorship in Myanmar
July 11, 2018
The Asia Times highlights the complexity of civil society efforts to tackle online “hate speech,” as Facebook encounters blowback in Myanmar against its censorship of Buddhist-nationalist monks branded as “hate figures” for their posts of anti-Muslim sentiment on the tech giant’s social media platform.
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