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Attack on Rushdie Signals Broader Islamist Calls for Attacks on Free Speech Advocates
September 09, 2022
The stabbing attack against British author Salman Rushdie was perpetrated by an American Muslim radicalized online to Islamist extremist causes, with all of these variables indicative of broader threat by Islamist extremist groups now systematically using online activity for radicalization and incitment to violence against advocates of thought, speech, and press freedoms.
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Malaysia to Host Global Islamic Finance Forum
September 09, 2022
Malaysia is reinforcing its role as a global leader in international sharia banking and finance as indicated in the East Asian country's first-place ranking in the Global Islamic Economy Report, by hosting the 2022 Global Islamic Finance Forum, which will convene international experts to discuss measures to advance sharia-based/compliant opportunities in digitalization, crypto currencies, and consumer patterns.
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UN Faces Vulnerabilities to Islamist Charities Instrumentalizing UN Refugee Work
September 07, 2022
Complex networks of Islamist charities with terrorist ties have been successful in instrumentalizing the humanitarian and relief work of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) for purposes of influence building, with the UNHCR coming under criticism for accepting millions of dollars in donations from a Saudi Arabia-based organization.
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NATO Member Turkey Intensifies Islamization of Armed Forces
September 07, 2022
The ruling Islamist regime in NATO member-state Turkey is intensifying the Islamization of the country's armed forces in the runup to Spring 2023 parliamentary and presidential elections, with measures ranging from the systematic purging of pro-NATO and pro-West officers from the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), the assignment of oversight responsibilities to jihadist-connected, private miitary contractor SADAT, which reports directly to Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the increasing interpenetration of the TAF with the state's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).
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Anti-Regime Islamists Controlling Northern Syria Ban Married Women from Education in Latest Violation of Women's Human Rights
September 07, 2022
The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham movement that runs the Syrian Salvation Government controlling northern Syria in opposition to the al-Assad regime has announced a ban on education for married women, with this latest violation of women's human rights under the jihadist surveillance-and-control regime affecting women of all ages, particularly given the sharp rise in child brides since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
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