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UNESCO Event Prioritizes Diversity in Preventing Terrorism
July 20, 2017
At a UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) event on how to use "educational media" to prevent "violent extremism," speakers emphasized the importance of promoting "inclusion and respect for diversity" and "citizenship education" in school textbooks and curricula to blunt the force of extremist messaging.
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OSCE Event Counters Religious Clothing Restrictions
July 20, 2017
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights recently held a roundtable in Amsterdam for NGOs and representatives of the Muslim and Jewish communities to discuss state restrictions on religious rites and practices, including on religious clothing, within the OSCE and how to form "sustainable national advocacy coalitions" to combat such restrictions.
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Experts Brace for Potential IS-Qaeda Merger
July 19, 2017
Experts on Islamist extremism are suggesting that the near future of global jihadism will very possibly be shaped by a merger between the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda movements, which will generate renewed resilience and impact in the internationalization of Islamist extremist ideology and strategies of violence aimed at the singular goal of achieving a global caliphate.
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OIC-UN Conference Focuses on Jerusalem Developments
July 19, 2017
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a conference in Azerbaijan on the increasingly tense conditions in Jerusalem, with specific focus on the OIC's core concerns of access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israeli government policies "aimed at judaizing Jerusalem and altering its historic landmarks as well as its Arab, Islamic and Christian character."
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Saudis Arrest Woman in Miniskirt for Violating Dress Code
July 19, 2017
The Saudi Arabian religious police, the "Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," recently detained a woman shown in a social media video wearing a miniskirt and walking unaccompanied in a town in Saudi Arabia for violating the strict Wahhabi Islamist laws requiring Saudi women to be completely covered and accompanied by a male guardian whenever in public.
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