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UN, IOM Call for Resumption of US Refugee Program
January 30, 2017
Asserting that refugees resettled in the US are "some of the most vetted individuals entering the United States," the UN refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have called on US President Donald Trump to reverse his restriction on migrants from seven countries deemed a terror threat and work toward "safe and secure resettlement" of refugees.
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UN Symposium Explores "Hate Speech" Solutions
January 27, 2017
Ahead of a UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) symposium in Brussels on "xenophobic hate speech" in the global media, UNAOC High Representative Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser labeled as hate speech media stories indicating that migrants impose a "strain on public benefits" or are "threats to national security" and applauded efforts to restrict such reporting.
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CoE Seeks Prosecution of "Fake News" Sources
January 26, 2017
In a speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE), the CoE's Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland called for the combating of "fake news" on the internet and for the collection by national authorities of evidence on "violent and hateful fake news" to aid prosecution of its sources.
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Pakistan Pursues Aggressive Islamization
January 25, 2017
Christine Fair writes that a constellation of radical Islamist actors has penetrated and co-opted Pakistan's military, intelligence, and security agencies, leading to the consolidation of an Islamist authoritarian regime that aggressively represses all civil society opposition and that has made the country one of the most dangerous global exporters of jihadism.
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Egypt's Establishment Aims to Ban Popular Film
January 25, 2017
Signaling a clampdown by hardliners in Egypt's Islamist religious establishment on cultural criticism of Islamist militancy, government agencies for religious affairs and members of the Al-Azhar university have joined forces to condemn a popular film called Preached as subverting Islamist orthodoxy and to pressure the state to ban the film from cinemas.
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