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OIC Chief's Visit to Bangladesh Signals South Asian Focus
August 24, 2016
The Saudi Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is making his third trip in as many years to Bangladesh at the start of a four-country, South Asian junket by the OIC chief, highlighting the region's importance to the 57-member-state organization whose charter is dedicated to promoting the interests of the global Muslim community in line with sharia law.
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OIC Calls for UN Action on Jerusalem Holy Sites
August 24, 2016
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation accused Israel of violating international law by enabling the "desecration of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque" and called on the UN Security Council to take action against "Israeli attacks on Islamic and Christian" holy sites in Jerusalem.
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Boko Haram Split Turns Jihadi Focus Toward Christians
August 24, 2016
Boko Haram's split into competing factions signals a hard shift toward the exclusive targeting of Christians by Nigeria's Islamist extremist organization, consistent with the Islamic State's strategy of killing Christians in Europe and Africa to provoke a Muslim-Christian holy war aimed to achieve a global Islamist caliphate.
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Observers Blame Migration, Neoliberalism for European Islamization
August 24, 2016
Some social science experts warn that the combination of neoliberal economic elites committed to a post-national, borderless Europe on the one hand and massive migration of Muslims into European countries on the other is facilitating the Islamization of Europe via the creation of "Islamic moral economies" and sharia zones antithetical to the modern nation-state.
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Sharia Investors Target Sub-Saharan Africa
August 24, 2016
Major sharia finance investors from the Mideast and South Asia are implementing target strategies for sub-Saharan Africa, a region whose economic growth forecasts, development needs, and sizable Muslim demography are viewed as ripe for the competitive expansion of Islamic finance.
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