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Arrested Islamist Extremist Tested Positive for Explosives at Airport in 2004
August 15, 2018
Jana Pruet reports that, according to authorities, airport security in New York chose not to detain Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, one of the men arrested by US authorities in the raid of a compound in New Mexico where children were reportedly being trained to commit public school shootings, in 2004 after he tested positive for an explosive substance.
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Latest Taliban Assault Shows Islamist Resilience in Afghanistan
August 15, 2018
The assault by Taliban fighters to capture the strategically important city of Ghazni is a blow to the US’s post-9/11 efforts to combat Islamist terrorism in Southwest Asia and undermines the Afghan government's efforts to negotiate a sustainable peace with the Taliban to focus on pushing back Islamic State operatives in the region.
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UN Report Spotlights Chinese Rights Violations Against Uighurs
August 15, 2018
A new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination indicates widespread human rights violations by Beijing against China’s Uighur Muslim population as part of policies to counter Islamist radicalization that human rights and security experts warn are risking the radicalization of Uighurs.
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Author Explores “Islamic Feminism” as Unintended Tool for Extremists
August 15, 2018
A new book by Afiya Zia, a well-known scholar of feminism and Islamism in Pakistan, analyzes the paradoxical effects of Islamic feminism in facilitating the consolidation of Islamist extremist political and social trends that exacerbated violations of women's civil and political rights in Southwest Asia's Islamic theocracy.
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Turkish Intimidation Results in Positive Letter on Religious Freedom
August 15, 2018
Fehim Tastekin of Al-Monitor reports that Turkey's Islamist regime intimidated the country's vulnerable religious minority communities into signing a letter claiming their right to religious freedom is intact, used as a tool to push back on US sanctions aimed at Turkey's protracted detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
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