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Report Examines Factors of Success in North African Parties
July 25, 2018
According to a new study from the Brookings Doha Center, the electoral success of Arab Spring Islamist parties in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia has been shaped by the willingness of party leaders to moderate their maximalist agendas in the interest of governing coalitions and support of policies of social pluralism and gender inclusion.
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Boko Haram Leader Urges Murder to “Purify” Land
July 25, 2018
The leader of Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram released a new video urging adherents of the Islamist extremist entity to murder infidels and non-conforming Muslims who have “strayed” from authentic Islamic faith, by "killing them in whichever way you can and take their souls in order to purify the land.”
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Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Mosque
July 25, 2018
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram perpetrated a multiple-casualty suicide attack on a mosque in Nigeria, the latest in a recent spate of attacks by the jihadi group in its continuing war to impose sharia law in West Africa.
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Indonesia Uses Canings as Punishment for Sharia Violations
July 23, 2018
In violation of domestic human rights agreements in Indonesia’s Aceh Province, authorities continue to use public canings as punishment for violations of sharia law in the world’s most populous Muslim country, with crimes ranging from homosexuality to selling and consuming alcohol in public to public displays of affection.
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OIC, Muslim League Condemn Israel for Jewish Nation-State Law
July 23, 2018
The two largest organizations representing Muslims worldwide, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Muslim World League, condemned Israel’s new “Jewish nation-state” law, arguing that the legislation violates international law, constitutes racism, and “ignores the historical rights” of Muslim and Christian Palestinians.
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