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UK Marriage Legislation Aims to Ensure Imams’ Compliance
June 04, 2018
Proposed changes to the UK’s Marriage Act recognizing civil unions as a universal requirement superseding religious unions, aim to ensure full civil rights and associated immigration protections for women under sharia-compliant "nikah" marriages and will subject to criminal penalties imams who fail to comply when performing religious marriages.
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OIC-led Coalition Condemns Israeli Settlements
June 04, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has joined with the Arab Red Cross Organization and Arab Red Crescent to condemn Israeli settlement in the Palestinian Territories and call on the international community to take measures against Israel "to ensure enforcement of international law."
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Social Changes Challenge Hegemony of Iran's Islamist Regime
June 04, 2018
Incremental social changes that break the strict taboos and disobey the rigid laws of Iran’s Islamist theocracy, including gender mixing in private events and public spaces and fashion innovations to circumvent Islamic dress rules, signal ongoing public pressure to roll back the hegemony of Iran’s Islamist hardliners in government.
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IS Shift Signals Long-term Jihadi Presence at Iraq-Syria Border
June 04, 2018
US military analysts predict that the combination of the Islamic State's (IS) tactical shift along the Syrian border with Iraq and effective social media propaganda presenting Islamist extremists as stalwarts and victims will facilitate a long-term jihadist presence that could debilitate the two Mideast states.
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Magazine Cover Provokes Renewed Debate Over Wahhabism
June 04, 2018
A Vogue Arabia cover featuring a Saudi princess, intended to showcase the reformist agenda exemplified in the Islamic kingdom’s end to the ban on female driving, has provoked a social media backlash highlighting the recent spate of arrests in the country of women’s rights activists pushing for an end to male guardianship laws and other gender restrictions.
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