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Al-Shabab Strikes Again in Deadly Suicide Bombing
December 18, 2017
The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist extremist group al-Shabab struck another blow in its efforts to impose sharia law in East Africa, killing at least 18 and wounding 15 others in a suicide bombing attack on the Police Academy in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu.
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Illicit Weapons Sales Continue to Make IS a Threat
December 18, 2017
The military defeat of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has not mitigated the Islamist extremist organization's threat in the Mideast and elsewhere, since IS cells retain control over significant quantities of conventional armaments and chemical components acquired from an active network of illicit weapons sales, including many EU supply sources, according to a new report by UK arms-monitoring NGO Conflict Armament Research.
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FRA Pushes for Broader Laws on "Hate" Incidents
December 15, 2017
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) have warned that a new FRA survey showing a substantial number of unreported "hate" incidents across the EU, including discrimination against and harassment of members of minority groups, demonstrates a shortcoming in European laws and policies seeking to address these phenomena.
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Google Hires Thousands to Police "Hate Speech"
December 15, 2017
The Guardian reports that, in response to several complaints from European politicians that it is not working fast enough to remove "extremist" and "offensive" videos from YouTube, tech giant Google is planning to employ over 10,000 moderators to police the video platform and is developing "machine-learning technology" that will automatically flag hateful content.
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Australia Rejects Demands on "Hate Speech" from UN Group
December 15, 2017
Australia's Multicultural Affairs Minister Zed Seselja has dismissed as "bizarre criticism" a report from the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination pushing his government, in light of a claimed rise in hate speech against Muslims and others, to criminalize violations of a law that prohibits offending, insulting, or humiliating anyone on the basis of race.
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