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Marriage Controversy Underlines Sharia Influence in Nigeria
December 30, 2016
Relatives of a 13-year-old girl in one of Nigeria's provinces subject to sharia law are seeking the state governor's intervention to prevent plans by her father to wed her to a 56-year-old Koranic school teacher who is already married to multiple wives.
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Iranian Citizen Paramilitary Forces Build Regional Shiite Influence
December 30, 2016
Iran has integrated the Basij corps, a citizen paramilitary organization established to safeguard the country's Islamic revolution by using repressive domestic security tactics, into the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as the military-propaganda vanguard of Iranian Shiite jihadism in the Middle East and around the world.
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OIC Hails UN Security Council Vote on Israeli Settlements
December 30, 2016
The 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the largest voting bloc in the UN General Assembly, hailed as "historic" a UN Security Council vote that condemned Israel for building settlements in the Palestinian Territories.
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IS Runs Organ and Slave Trade out of Turkey
December 30, 2016
According to evidence from security and human rights experts, Turkey has become a platform for Islamic State (IS) operatives running robust networks to finance Islamist jihadi activities by trading in human organs and trafficking of human beings.
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Experts Expect Increasing 2017 Islamic Finance Influence in Africa
December 30, 2016
Development and infrastructure needs in Africa will provide greater opportunities for sharia-compatible financing and other Islamic banking in 2017, especially as Middle Eastern and South Asian Islamic finance players look to expand their influence in non-Muslim-majority sub-Saharan and West African countries.
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