Global Political Islam

  • Pakistan Avoids FATF "Grey List" at Paris Meeting

    March 01, 2018

    Despite a push from the US and other members of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to add Pakistan to the global money-laundering watchdog's "grey list" because of evidence of its government's financial and other support for extremist, violent Islamist groups, the FATF decided not to add Pakistan to this list at a recent meeting.

  • Iraq Court Sentences Women IS Fighters, Wives to Death

    March 01, 2018

    Some international rights groups have criticized Iraq's Central Criminal Court for sentencing 16 Turkish women to death, pending appeal, for the crime of "belonging to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group," warning of the potential for coercion of women who went to Iraq either to join the caliphate or to marry IS fighters.

  • French Leaders Announce Measures Against Radicalization

    March 01, 2018

    France’s President and Prime Minister have announced a series of measures aimed at addressing what they characterize as the “slow burning threat” of Islamist radicalization in France, by augmenting stricter counter-terrorism legislation with policies such as the creation of isolation zones for imprisoned Islamist militants.

  • Turkey’s President Glorifies Child Soldiers with Islamist Rhetoric

    March 01, 2018

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has generated controversy with some opposition politicians and rights groups for using Islamist discourse and nationalist imagery in his comment to a young girl dressed in military fatigues that she will be honored with a Turkish flag if martyred in the country’s current military invasion of the Syrian city of Afrin.

  • Indonesia Floats Sharia Green Bonds

    March 01, 2018

    Indonesia is the first country in Asia to sell government green bonds and to make the US$1.25 billion deal sharia-compliant, opening the way for Islamic financing arrangements to be applied to government efforts to raise state funds for environmentally friendly projects.

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