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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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Al-Shabab Carries Out Another Attack in Somali Capital
January 25, 2017
The Somali al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab carried out a lethal attack against a hotel in the country's capital city in yet another terrorist assault on soft civilian targets aimed to bring down the fragile Somali government and establish sharia law across East Africa.
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Rights Group Warns of Extremist Islamization of Mali
January 25, 2017
A new report by Human Rights Watch warns of the rising strength of a cluster of Islamist extremist groups in Mali, reflected in the imposition of sharia law in a growing number of villages in the West African nation, the targeted persecution and repression of Christians, and the intimidation and forced conscription of Muslim children into jihadi militias.
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Facebook Encounters Backlash over Content Removal
January 25, 2017
Reuters reports that a group of nongovernmental organizations has criticized the response of Facebook to their concerns that the social media company's policy to remove "hate speech" from its platform has resulted in the deletion of content that merely discusses racism or protests, and has called for Facebook to provide racial discrimination training to its monitors.
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Riyadh Rebukes Critiques Linking Saudis with Extremism
January 24, 2017
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister has rebuked French presidential candidates critiquing Saudi Arabia as a global funder and exporter of Islamist extremism, accusing the politicians of contributing to a misperception of the Islamist theocracy as a purveyor of religious intolerance and religious radicalism.
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