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OIC Makes More Headway with World Bank on Sharia Finance
August 03, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's ("OIC") Islamic Development Bank continues to make headway with the World Bank's "Global Islamic Finance Development Center," for the promotion of sharia-compliant/compatible instruments, co-sponsoring a massive upcoming international conference in Turkey on Islamic finance.
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Islamic State Institutionalizes Sex Slavery for Non-Muslim Women and Girls
July 31, 2015
Widespread, eyewitness accounts are emerging from the Mideast territories under the control of the Islamic State's ("IS") strict caliphate that IS has been institutionalizing the practice of abduction, detention, and sale of Christian and Yezidi girls and women for sexual enslavement to Muslim men.
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Saudi Clerics Condemn Israel for "State Terrorism" Against Muslim Sites
July 31, 2015
Saudi Arabia's Council of Muslim Scholars issued a vitriolic condemnation of Israel's "state terrorism," citing the entry of Israeli settlers and security personnel into Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound while Muslims were worshipping there.
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Forced Female Conversions to Islam a Serious Problem in Pakistan
July 31, 2015
Nongovernmental organizations in Pakistan report that the abduction and forced conversion of girls and young women to Islam is a widespread problem systematically ignored by the country's police and judiciary.
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Taliban Chief's Death Reveals Bad-Worse Spectrum of Islamists in Afghanistan
July 31, 2015
Security experts on Southwest Asia have expressed surprising concerns that the reported death of Taliban chief Mullah Omar could provoke a fragmentation of the militant Islamist group at a time when Great Power governments have been carefully negotiating with the Taliban to normalize relations with the Afghan government and to serve as a bulwark against the regional spread of more extremist Islamist factions affiliated with the Islamic State ("IS").
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