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US Intel Says Extremist Islamists Move to Black Web to Recruit and Avoid Law Enforcement
June 09, 2015
US intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies are concerned over the shift by the Islamic State ("IS") to "black web" technologies, which are specifically designed to avert law enforcement and intelligence tracking, as a mode of recruitment and planning for Islamist militancy and violence anywhere in the world.
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Former OIC Chief Elected to Turkey's Parliament with Far Right Party
June 09, 2015
The former, two-term Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was elected to Parliament in this past weekend's elections in Turkey, as a member of the country's extreme-right Nationalist Movement Party ("MHP").
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Pakistan Pushes for OIC to Galvanize Action on Rohingya Muslims
June 09, 2015
Pakistan's government announced plans to press the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") to galvanize international public opinion by mobilizing at the UN for action to help Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population currently facing human rights abuses.
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Saudi High Court Confirms Flogging Punishment for Blogger
June 08, 2015
Bucking widespread criticism from international human rights organizations, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld another, forthcoming round of public flogging as the sharia-based punishment for what the lower courts in the Islamic theocracy deemed to be free speech excesses by one of the country's most well-known bloggers.
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OIC and Saudi NGO in Europe Sign Cooperation Agreement
June 08, 2015
Leaders from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), the global multilateral organization whose charter is based on commitment to the principles of sharia law and protection of the interests of Muslims worldwide, and the King Abdullah Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue ("KAIICID"), a Saudi-government-funded nongovernmental organization based in Vienna, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on dialogue and education initiatives to "combat incitement to religious hatred and negative stereotyping," an issue which both organizations have mainly understood as "countering Islamophobia" through activism in the United Nations and in European fora.
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