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Growth of Jihadism in Kenya Linked to Wahhabi, Structural Factors
December 17, 2018
The steady growth in the influence and increasingly radical and violent impact of Salafi-Wahhabi jihadist ideas and actors in Kenya since the 1980s is linked to the impact of education in Saudi Arabia on Kenyan Islamic clerics, combined with the failures of corrupt state institutions to solve economic development problems of Kenya’s ethno-religiously diverse population.
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Australian Police Arrest IS Terrorist Plotters
December 17, 2018
Police officials in Australia have announced their apprehension of three suspects in Melbourne who were plotting an Islamic State (IS)-inspired terrorist attack in Melbourne, following on the recent IS-inspired lone-wolf attack in Australia's largest city.
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Taliban Use Violence, Negotiations to Leverage Territorial Gains
December 17, 2018
The Taliban continues to use a combination of targeted violence inside Afghanistan and competing negotiations led by the US and Russia to build territorial gains and incremental diplomatic leverage in achieving the Taliban's goal of a sharia state in Afghanistan.
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Critics See Egyptian ID Change as Insufficient
December 17, 2018
Critics argue that proposed Egyptian legislation striking religious affiliation from the country’s identity cards will have little impact on the widespread discrimination caused by the constitutional privileging of Islamic sharia law as "the main source of legislation" in the country.
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Islamist Regimes Maintain Media Silence on Uighur Muslims
December 17, 2018
The media silence about China’s persecution of its large Uighur Muslim community in many of the world’s most active Islamist regimes can be explained in light of those countries’ repressive human rights and media policies and significant trade relationships with China.
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