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CoE Report Warns of "Islamophobic" Migration Response
June 02, 2016
The annual report of the Council of Europe's Commission against Racism and Intolerance warns that the European migration crisis has spurred increased Islamophobia and xenophobia among populist parties and calls for better integration policies for migrants in countries across the region.
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Teachers' Network Seeks to Counter Radicalization in Africa
June 02, 2016
An article in The New Yorker describes the efforts of a teacher affiliated with the network Teachers Against Violent Extremism to educate children in a working-class community of Kenya to resist radicalization by al-Shabaab, an Islamist extremist group that recruits young people to join its fight to impose sharia law in East Africa.
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Tech Companies Agree to EU Code on "Hate Speech"
June 01, 2016
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube have agreed to a European Commission-issued code of conduct under which they will review requests to remove "illegal hate speech," including content used to recruit Islamic extremists as well as speech deemed to be racist or xenophobic, from their platforms within 24 hours and, if necessary, delete the content.
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Observers: Microsoft Faces Dilemma on Cooperation with Egypt
May 27, 2016
Foreign Policy reports that tech company Microsoft is facing a difficult situation after being invited to speak at a UN Security Council meeting hosted by Egypt on countering online extremism, as the company must find a road between restricting propaganda from the Islamic State and shutting down legitimate criticism of the country's military-led government.
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Dutch Law Permits Stripping Citizenship from IS Fighters
May 25, 2016
Politico reports that the Netherlands has passed a law permitting authorities to revoke, without a court order, the citizenship of dual nationals who have joined the Islamic State.
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