Global Political Islam

  • UN Peacekeepers Staunch Muslim Militia Attacks in CAR

    October 13, 2016

    Following another wave of lethal attacks against civilians and refugees by the anti-government Muslim Selena militias fighting to gain control of the Central African Republic, UN peacekeepers pushed back the militia in efforts to staunch what has devolved into a communal civil war in the resource-rich African state.

  • German Minister Seeks More "Hate Speech" Reporting

    October 12, 2016

    Virginia Hale writes that, in response to Facebook's announcement that in one month it deleted 100,000 posts from German users containing "hate comments," German Justice Minister Heiko Maas complained that the number of deleted posts was too low and called for legislation to force social media networks to reveal the number of "hate speech" complaints they receive.

  • UN Promotes Use of Sharia Finance to Fulfill SDGs

    October 12, 2016

    Following up their establishment of a Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform for the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Development Programme and the Islamic Development Bank recently held a joint event at which they explored opportunities for using "Islamic finance instruments" to contribute resources for the fulfillment of the SDGs.

  • EU Pushes for Further Clampdown on "Hate Speech"

    October 12, 2016

    In recent remarks in Berlin, European Commissioner for Justice Věra Jourová called on countries to transpose EU policies on criminalizing "illegal hate speech" into national law and foreshadowed a monitoring and reporting mechanism for social media companies that will help the EU clamp down on online speech that "incites violence and hatred."

  • IS Issues Blueprint for Individual Terror Attacks in West

    October 11, 2016

    The second issue of the Islamic State's English-language propaganda magazine designed to cultivate jihadists in Western countries offers a blueprint for what it calls "justice terror" attacks with detailed instructions for maximizing civilian casualties in stabbing campaigns and inspiring fear in "non-believer nations."

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