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Saudi Religious Censors Ban National Geographic Cover Edition with Pope Francis
September 14, 2015
Saudi Arabia's government cited "cultural reasons" to ban the distribution of National Geographic’s Arabic edition whose August cover features Pope Francis, and experts speculate that the country's fundamentalist Wahhabi religious establishment objected to the Pope's comments about religious reform.
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Gulf States Blame and Avoid over Syrian Refugees
September 09, 2015
Blaming Western governments for Syria's protracted civil war and refugee crisis, the plutocratic Islamist monarchies of the Arabian Gulf are coming under sharp international criticism for funding Syria's extremist Islamist ideologues and militias and for refusing to absorb refugees except as low-paid laborers with no political or economic rights.
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Germany Pushes G20 to Boost Use of Islamic Finance
September 09, 2015
Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told leaders from the world's 20 largest economies ("G20") that the G20 should promote the integration of Islamic finance, which operates according to sharia law principles, in global financing for massive infrastructure projects.
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Mideast Gulf Countries Fund Islamist Extremism and Turn Back on Region's Refugees
September 09, 2015
Although Mideast Gulf countries have led the public condemnations against the EU for its policy failures in responding to the grotesque humanitarian crisis of millions of Syrian and Iraqi refugees from wars in those two states, human rights organizations have compiled data indicating that significant elements within those same petro-plutocratic Gulf countries "have invested heavily in funding and arming a constellation" of rebel and Islamist totalitarian militias and religious leaders and have not granted official refugee and/or asylum status to a single Syrian citizen.
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IS Targets Protestant Christians in Turkey
September 09, 2015
Protestant Christians report that their leaders and congregations are being targeted with systematic death threats by the Islamic State ("IS") on social media, noting that longstanding violations of their religious freedom "are not anything new" for Christians in supposedly secular Turkey, a country whose Islamist government has only recently shifted from tacit and active support to opposition to IS.
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