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UK Report Seeks Cultural "Cohesion" Strategy
December 06, 2016
A report on "community cohesion" in the UK from Dame Louise Casey asserts that government policies have not bridged the gap between some increasingly divided cultures in the country and calls for such strategies as an "integration oath" for migrants, promotion of the English language, and “women’s emancipation" in communities with "regressive cultural practices."
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Survey Signals British Muslim Indifference Toward Islamic Banking
December 05, 2016
A survey by a UK nongovernmental organization of British Muslims shows that a majority of respondents prefer not to use sharia-compliant banking services, raising questions about the rationale for British financial elites' aims to make London a hub for Islamic finance.
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Evidence Points to Assad's Complicity with Jihadis
December 05, 2016
Evidence from a collection of US and Syrian intelligence materials pointing toward collusion between Syria's al-Assad regime and Islamist jihadi groups to divert US attention to Iraq and present Western governments with a choice between "the al-Assad regime or Islamist extremists" underscores the complexities of a resolution of the civil war in Syria.
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Islamist Extremists Fill Afghanistan Power Vacuum
December 05, 2016
The fragility of state control over only 60 percent of Afghanistan's territory is creating a security vacuum increasingly filled by the expanding presence of the Taliban and other Afghan, Pakistani, and international Islamist extremists, making Southwest Asia a platform for global geopolitical instability created by jihadi groups.
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Boko Haram Jihad Worsens African Humanitarian Crisis
December 05, 2016
UN refugee officials are warning that the recent uptick in attacks in the ongoing, seven-year jihadi campaign by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is making it impossible to deliver urgent food and medical humanitarian assistance to the nearly 2.6 million displaced persons in the sub-Saharan African countries of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.
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