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Mozambique Uses Courts to Try to Staunch Islamist Expansion
December 05, 2018
Mozambique courts will begin a trial of 200 citizens and foreign nationals accused of perpetrating a pattern of Islamist attacks in the country over this past year, as the government tries to tamp down a growing jihadist threat aimed at imposing sharia law throughout the West African nation.
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BoE Creates Liquidity Facility for Sharia Finance
December 05, 2018
The Bank of England (BoE) is creating a Sharia Compliant Facility, an alternative liquidity facility that will permit banks to hold BoE reserves in conformity with Islamic law, a move intended to bolster London as a global Islamic financial center.
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Australian Trial Shows Global-Local Network of Jihadists
December 05, 2018
The Melbourne Supreme Court trial of four pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadists arrested in late 2016 for plotting to perpetrate multi-city terror attacks on Christmas Day shows how radical Islamists are adapting their global movement to local conditions.
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Tensions Mount in Mauritania over Influence of Muslim Brotherhood
December 05, 2018
The recent closure of two Islamic schools of higher education by Mauritania’s government because of their alleged links to political Islamist opposition groups has evoked student demonstrations in the West African country.
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IS Resiliency Shows in Operational Shift to Global Insurgency
December 05, 2018
The leadership of the Islamic State (IS) has responded to the military defeat of the IS in its core Iraq-Syria territories by reconfiguring the jihadi group’s organizational structure and operational approach away from the focus on territorialized state-building toward a globalized terrorist insurgency designed to disrupt states worldwide.
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