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UK Prosecutors Prioritize Online "Hate Attacks"
August 23, 2017
Liam Deacon writes that the UK's Crown Prosecution Service has issued guidelines explaining that it will prosecute people for "hateful abuse," singling out victims on characteristics such as religion, sexual orientation, and transgender identity, on social media services as vigorously as it prosecutes perpetrators for face-to-face "hate attacks."
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UN Seeks Help for Women, Children Brutalized by IS
August 22, 2017
The UN is calling on the Iraqi government and international courts to take robust action to support women and children liberated from Islamic State (IS) control, including psychological-medical services for females brutalized by sex slavery, social-educational services to prevent discrimination against children born from rape by IS jihadis, and prompt prosecution of perpetrators.
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Deterioration in Women's Rights in Maldives Reflects Islamization
August 22, 2017
Rights organizations that report a measurable deterioration in women's health, education, and social rights and freedoms for women in Maldives are explaining the change as a function of the increasing penetration of radical Islamist ideas and monies into the Indian Ocean country from hardline Islamist states like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
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Islamist Authoriarianism Spurs Anti-West Shift in Turkish Policy
August 21, 2017
Recent commentary explains how the consolidation of Islamist authoritarianism in Turkey has driven growing hostility in Turkish foreign policy toward both the country's NATO allies in Europe and Western strategic priorities in the Middle East, signaling Ankara's turn against "the Western liberal world order and its values."
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Imam Used Personal Links to Launch Spanish Terror Attack
August 21, 2017
Investigation into the many perpetrators involved in last week's terror attacks in Spain reveal their shared connection to an Islamic State imam whose careful cultivation of personal contacts among local families of brothers reveals a recruitment pattern of jihadi radicalization in Europe that avoids the standard methods of internet and mosque outreach.
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