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Geopolitics, Sectarianism Motivate Saudi Drive to Nuclearize
December 18, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s leaders are pushing the US to provide the Islamist theocratic monarchy with nuclear technology that can be weaponized in a program much like Iran’s initiative, based on twin rationales of sustaining Sunni over Shiite sectarian dominance and maintaining Saudi Arabia’s Mideast balance of power goals.
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Khashoggi Murder Gives Turkey Upper Hand in Islamic Leadership
December 18, 2018
Turkey’s Islamist regime has managed the narrative and politics of the murder of Saudi-American journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a manner that advances its goals of supplanting Saudi Arabia as the hegemon of global Islamism.
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British Report on Homeland Attacks Finds Shortcomings
December 18, 2018
The British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has released a report on the five major Islamist jihadi attacks that occurred in Britain in 2017, concluding that the country’s security, police, and intelligence agencies continue to suffer from poor information-sharing and are failing to shut down jihadist activity on social media platforms.
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Boko Haram Kills 100 Soldiers in Ongoing Jihad in Nigeria
December 18, 2018
Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist extremist group whose name means Western education is a sin, killed an estimated 100 Nigerian government soldiers in the last week in the group’s ongoing jihad to impose sharia law throughout the West Africa country.
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Saudi Women Push back Against Wahhabi Islamist Oppression
December 18, 2018
Women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia continue to push back against Wahhabi Islamist canons that impose male guardianship laws on women in virtually all social and family spheres, with the latest act of civil disobedience in the form of wearing the full-body black abaya inside-out as a protest against rigid Islamist dress requirements.
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