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Al-Shabaab Bans Plastic Bags, Not Jihadi Violence
July 09, 2018
The Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab has issued an official order banning the use of plastic bags because of their negative impact on the environment, human beings, and livestock, while comprehensive forms of violence, including against civilian targets, remain central to the Islamist extremist group.
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Saudi Wahhabi Establishment Resists Sociopolitical Reform
July 09, 2018
Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi religious regime, the fundamentalist Sunni establishment that has long legitimized the House of Saud’s political control in the Islamist theocratic kingdom, is pushing back against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s sociopolitical reform agenda.
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Al-Shabaab Attacks Somalia's Interior Ministry
July 09, 2018
Al-Shabaab, Somalia’s al-Qaeda-affiliated homegrown Islamist extremist movement, killed nine in an attack on the county’s Interior Ministry, a reminder of the group’s resilience and its broader destabilizing impact via jihadist operations in the Horn of Africa.
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OIC Bank Seeks to Expand Global Islamic Finance, Sharia Ideas
July 09, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Islamic Development Bank is touting its AAA rating by Moody's Investors Service as it aims to leverage the rating for the launch of a $2.5-billion sharia-based bond offering that will support development in OIC countries and that will help to spread sharia ideas through a new innovation incubator called Engage.
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British Courts Rely on Islamist Preacher as Expert Witness
July 09, 2018
British media are raising questions about the implications of the National Health Service’s use of a radical Islamist preacher who has publicly denounced secular governmental authority and was a longtime public supporter of an Islamist organization advocating for a global sharia state as an expert witness in numerous court cases.
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