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Tunisian Women's Groups Push for Equal Rights
March 20, 2018
A panoply of women's groups in Tunisia, led by the Tunisian Coalition for Equality in Inheritance, is driving a popular mobilization campaign to reform the country's sharia-based Personal Status Code that deprives women of equal inheritance rights and other legal rights based on gender discrimination rooted in conservative interpretations of Islamic law.
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IS Resilience Continues Despite Caliphate's Fall
March 20, 2018
Western security experts are focused on the strengths and vulnerabilities of the Islamist State's (IS) jihadist mission after the military defeat and formal collapse of the IS caliphate in Iraq and Syria failed to terminate the group as a globalized actor with organizational adaptability, narrative messaging elasticity, and battlefield resilience.
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Moody's Predicts Global Growth of Islamic Banking
March 20, 2018
Moody's Investor Service is predicting that 2018 will see comparative strong growth in sharia-compliant/compatible banking compared to conventional banking services, as part of the robust global expansion of the Islamic finance industry, especially in new markets in North Africa and Southeast Asia.
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Attack on Bangladeshi Secular Blogger Reveals Impunity
March 19, 2018
The recent knife attack against Bangladesh's popular science professor and secular writer Muhammed Zafar Iqbal reveals the growing impact and importation of global jihadi groups on Bangladesh's Islamist ecosystem, as well as the complicity and cooperation of the country's military establishment.
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Pakistan Court Approves Islamist Terror Party in Election
March 19, 2018
A court in Pakistan court has approved the participation in Pakistan's parliamentary elections this summer of a radical Islamist party whose leader carries a $10 million US bounty for his alleged role in mass-casualty terrorist attacks in India in 2008.
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