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UN Official: Deterring Refugees "Casts Aside Humanity"
October 19, 2017
In recent remarks in Geneva, UN Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk has warned that some governments around the world have "cast aside humanity in favour of short-term political gains" by deporting asylum seekers to their countries of origin and labeled refugee deterrence measures as "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment."
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IS Impact in Iraq Means Genocide for Christians, Yezidis
October 19, 2017
Recent US congressional testimonies and nongovernmental fact-finding missions report that massive humanitarian relief, including development assistance and security protection, is the only feasible antidote to the genocidal impact of the Islamic State's (IS) extermination campaign against Christians and Yezidis in Iraq.
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British Court Sentences Pharmacist for Islamist Brainwashing
October 19, 2017
British courts handed down a multi-year prison sentence to a Muslim man convicted of operating an Islamic school in Nottingham to brainwash children for Islamist terrorism by showing Islamic State beheading videos and by conducting training in knife attacks.
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Islamic Banking Spreads in Central Asia
October 19, 2017
Government officials in Kazakhstan are moving aggressively to implement a "road map for the development of Islamic finance until 2020," aiming to make the geopolitically crucial state in Central Asia a hub of sharia-compliant finance through full integration with all major finance and investment institutions of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
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Officials Suspect Al-Shabab in Somalia Terror Attack
October 19, 2017
Somalia's state security officials have identified the Islamist extremist group al-Shabab as the perpetrator of the Mogadishu bombings that now stand as the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history, reinforcing the resiliency of the Islamist threat posed in East Africa.
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