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Islamist Radicalization and Violence Bodes Instability in North Caucasus
June 24, 2015
Recent violence in a major mosque in Russia's Republic of Ingushetia, between Salafist and Sufi Muslims over questions about prayer cycles, points to the deepening cleavage emerging across the North Caucasus region between radicalizing, extremist Muslim groups connected to Mideast Islamists versus supporters of Sufi Islamist moderation espoused by the Caucasus' recent International Islamic Theological Conference.
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OIC Charges Western Media with Bias and Hate in Coverage of Qatar World Cup
June 24, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") weighed in on international media coverage related to Qatar as host of the 2022 World Cup, and the 57-member-state global multilateral organization's charges of Western media bias echoes claims by OIC member-states from the Gulf Cooperation Council ("GCC") of a Western media "hate campaign" against Qatar.
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UN Special Envoy Warns of Jihadi Foothold in Gaza as Blowback from Israeli Blockade
June 15, 2015
The UN Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process has warned that the dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza, which he mainly attributed to Israel's blockade of the territory and the general failure of international donors to meet commitments to Gaza's reconstruction, are providing fertile ground for the embedding of Islamist jihadi and radical groups committed to the collapse of the Hamas authorities and to the destruction of Israel.
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Sunni Jihadis Systematically Destroy Christian Religious Sites
June 15, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") and other radical Sunni jihadi groups have matched their brutal violence against civilians with systematic, comprehensive campaigns of unprecedented destruction of Christian religious and cultural patrimony, including many UN-designated world heritage sites, throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
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Egypt's Al-Azhar Under Pressure for Curriculum Reform to Reject Islamist Violence
June 15, 2015
The Egyptian government continues to press the leadership of Cairo's Al-Azhar university and mosque, considered the world's most prestigious and authoritative Sunni intellectual centers of learning, to implement a timely curriculum reform that would eliminate exhortations to violence and intolerance from textbooks and training whose influence extends to Muslim communities around the world.
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