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Turkey Uses Scout Camps as Instrument of Political Islamism in France
October 20, 2022
Turkey’s Islamist regime is actively using scouting camps in France as a tool for socio-political mobilization of religion, with the chief imam Ali Erbas of Ankara's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) recently opening a new scout camp in the large north-central French city of Corbeil Essonnes as part of what he described as a strategy to integrate scouting activities with theological training through the joint activities of the Diyanet, its French branch of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), and the Turkish Scouting and Guiding Federation.
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Funding for IS Terrorism in North America on Display
October 20, 2022
A former resident of San Diego, CA was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of providing personnel and monies to support the jihadist activities of IS in Syria, in a US Justice Department case that turned on cooperation with Canadian authorities' who extradited the Candian citizen for prosecution in the United States and that underscores that support networks for Islamist terrorism extend to North America.
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Islamist Militants Continue Major Advances in Mali in Sign of Expanding Jihadist Footprint Across West Africa
October 18, 2022
Militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) continue their campaign of violence and radicalization in Mali, last week her eating major flows of internally displaced persons (IDPs), civilian casualties, and economic destruction, in a pattern that defines the expanding footprint of the various jihadist groups operating across the region of West Africa.
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IS Fighters Destabilize East Africa With More Violence in Resource-Rich Mozambique
October 18, 2022
Fighters from the Islamic State Mozambique Province continue to destabilize the state and human security environment in East Africa, as the durability of jihadists fighting to secure control over Mozambique’s natural gas resources in the Cabo Delgado Province on the Indian Ocean continues to generate the kind of violence that has led global energy companies to suspend their projects and that has produced humanitarian crisis conditions still unresolved, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
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IS & Turkey’s Islamist Regime Cooperate in Assaults on US-Backed Kurdish Forces
October 18, 2022
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) working to stabilize former IS caliphate territory in northeast Syria are being squeezed by resurgent IS militants emboldened by the permissive security environment caused by Turkey’s Islamist regime active in the same space.
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