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Latest Egypt Violence Makes Democracy the Casualty in Secularist versus Islamist Battle
July 06, 2015
This week's assassination of Egypt's senior prosecutor, who had overseen the mandating of death sentences to hundreds of loyalists to the former Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") government of Muhamed Mursi ousted by the current military government of General Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, throws into sharp relief one of the most crucial policy lessons and challenges of the broader battle between secularist versus Islamist forces in the Greater Middle East, namely, the extreme risk to building democratic norms and institutions.
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Egyptian Prosecutor's Assassination by Islamists May Signal Civil War
July 06, 2015
The assassination of Egypt's senior prosecutor earlier this week is widely seen as the clarion call by the Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") and other militant Islamist groups to target the country's judiciary in what is devolving into a civil war between the Al-Sisi military government and Islamist forces loyal to the MB, which was ousted in 2013 by a citation of actors led by Al-Sisi.
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UN Appeal to Nigerian Government Reveals Boko Haram Use of Rape in Jihadi War
July 06, 2015
The controversial appeal by UN officials to the Nigerian government to loosen state restrictions on women's access to abortions comes as a result of the systematic use of rape by the Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram against captive women and girls, underscoring the massive societal consequences of the group's use of rape as part of their jihadi campaign to impose sharia law throughout Nigeria and West Africa.
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IS Threatens Hamas and Gaza as Weak on Islam
July 06, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") issued an open threat against Hamas and Gaza, vowing to spearhead the imposition of sharia law in Gaza and criticizing Hamas for its failure to commit to the IS caliphate.
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Iran Plans Increased Trade Ties with OIC Countries When Sanctions End
July 02, 2015
Iran's finance and trade officials are planning for a major expansion of the country's global trade and finance activities after easing of sanctions at the conclusion of the international nuclear negotiations, based on a major increase in Iran's shareholder status in the International Islamic Trade Finance Corp ("ITFC") of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC").
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