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UK Central Bank Develops Sharia Options for Retail Banking
April 12, 2017
The Bank of England is working with the UK's five Islamic banks to develop options for sharia-based retail banking services that would comply with Islamic financial bans on the use of interest as London seeks to retain its status as an international financial hub following the UK’s exit from the EU.
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Terror Attack on Westminster Underscores Power of Islamist Ideas
April 12, 2017
The Islamic State's (IS) online recruiting magazine, Rumiyah, last year ran an article exhorting loyalists to carry out exactly the kind of vehicle suicide attack perpetrated recently against civilians on London's Westminster Bridge by a British convert to Islam, a signal the power and content of religious ideas must be taken seriously in policy design for countering violent Islamism.
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Jihadist Networks Inside Turkey Threaten Regional Stability
April 12, 2017
The Islamic State (IS) is the kingmaker in a complex network of jihadist groups which have consolidated their physical and online activities in Turkey, as that country's tacit support for Islamist extremism has created opportunities for domestic terror attacks and for Turkey to be used as a platform for threatening regional security in the Mideast and Europe.
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China’s Counter-Extremist Measures May Boost Terrorist Recruiting
April 12, 2017
Chinese government officials legalized a broad spectrum of social and religious restrictions on the country's large Uighur Muslim minority as a policy for countering the spread of Islamist extremism, but human rights organizations warn that the repression may catalyze Islamist radicalization among Uighurs.
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Russia Arrests IS Sympathizers Suspected in St. Petersburg Bombing
April 12, 2017
After identifying the main suspect in the suicide bombing of the St. Petersburg metro as a Russian passport-holder from Kyrgyzstan, a poor Central Asian country with high recruitment levels for Islamist extremist movements, Russian security officials arrested seven Central Asian migrants suspected in the metro terror attack as Islamic State (IS) sympathizers and accomplices.
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