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IS Propaganda Message Shifts Focus to Long War
April 19, 2017
The most recent issue of the Islamic State's online propaganda journal, Rumiyah, suggests a messaging shift in line with recent battlefield losses, by encouraging followers to adopt a long-war strategy that combines endurance for jihad, warns of punishments for jihadi defectors, and urges theft and plunder of enemy "wealth, weapons, women, and children."
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Saudi Arabia Issues Country’s First Global Islamic Bond
April 19, 2017
Pressured by collapsing oil revenues and falling currency reserves due to the country’s move to diversify its oil-dependent economy, the Saudi Arabian government has turned to international capital markets for debt relief, raising $9 billion with the Wahhabi Kingdom's first-ever Islamic bond issue.
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Algerian Government Reluctantly Moves Towards Islamic Banking
April 19, 2017
Algerian financial officials are moving reluctantly, given concerns stemming from the country's 1990's civil war between Islamists and secularists, to introduce sharia-compliant banking services as a way to offset the country's drop in oil revenues.
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Mob Attacks University Students Accused of Blasphemy Against Islam
April 19, 2017
A student mob in a Pakistani university attacked two students, one of whom died of injuries from lynching, after rumours began to spread that the deceased student had “allegedly published blasphemous content" on Facebook.
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IS Affiliate in Philippines Clashes with Military
April 19, 2017
Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic State (IS) affiliate responsible for a series of beheadings and kidnappings of civilians in the Philippines, has recently engaged in lethal clashes with Philippine military forces following warnings by the US Embassy in Manila of credible threats by the jihadi group against civilians.
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