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UN Emphasizes Muslim "Victimhood" as Result of Terrorism
December 29, 2015
Anne Bayefsky of the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Voices writes that two panels recently hosted at the UN's New York headquarters characterized American Muslims as victims of Islamophobia in the wake of the 9/11 and San Bernardino attacks perpetrated by Islamic terrorists.
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IS Is a Pseudo-State, Not a Simple Terrorist Organization
December 29, 2015
Security experts are debating the diagnosis of the Islamic State ("IS") as a pseudo-state that combines the force projection capabilities and economic functions of a state with extremist Islamist ideology, with implications for an offensive containment strategy integrating decisive diplomacy with innovative military operations.
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IS Theologians and War Spoils Department Manage Slavery and Sex with War Captives
December 29, 2015
Islamic State ("IS") theologians have issued a religious ruling with detailed sharia justifications permitting male "owners" to enslave, buy and sell, and have sex with female captives of jihad, with the fatwa on slavery and sex intended to support the operations of IS's newly established "Department of War Spoils."
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Sharia Finance Comes to Fast-Growth US Agri-Tech Industry
December 29, 2015
Sharia-compliant investment and financing instruments are coming to the US agri-tech industry, as global Islamist investors are looking to enter the fastest growth sector in innovative, sustainable agriculture and farming worldwide.
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Suicide Bombing Signals Rising Islamism in Bangladesh
December 28, 2015
A suicide-bomb attack targeting an Ahmadiyya mosque in Bangladesh sends a worrying signal of the growing influence of extremist Islamism in Bangladesh, given that many Sunni Muslims worldwide consider Ahmaddiya to be heretics warranting persecution.
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