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Turkey Expands Market for Sharia-Compatible Tourism
May 23, 2018
Turkey is rapidly expanding its sharia-compatible/compliant tourism offerings, aimed at appealing to tourists from Muslim-majority countries and at balancing the sharp decline in Western visitors who have been put off by the deterioration in the country’s security environment that is associated with Islamist terrorism and political Islam.
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Iran Consolidates Shiite Imperialism as Foreign Policy Plank
May 23, 2018
Leaders of Iran’s Islamic Republic are pushing Shiite revolutionary imperialism as a foreign policy that can unite Persians and Arabs across the Middle East in anti-Western wars and that seeks to compensate for waning domestic support for the Islamist theocratic model.
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OSCE Seeks Legislative Policies on Foreign Fighters
May 22, 2018
At a recent conference in Rome, the chair of a panel of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on counter-terrorism, Makis Voridis, called for legislative action to limit the threats posed by returning foreign terrorist fighters through coordination, information-sharing, and breaking terror links with organized crime.
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UN Body Criticizes Philippines Terror List
May 22, 2018
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has published a decision calling on the Philippines government to remove all indigenous peoples and "human rights defenders" from a list of individuals associated with "terrorist organizations," asserting the list seeks "to narrow the democratic space" and violates international law regarding racial discrimination.
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Twitter Takes Action Against Perceived "Trolls"
May 22, 2018
The BBC reports that social media giant Twitter has announced it is making the tweets of so-called "trolls," identified through account registration activity and tweeting patterns, less visible to users, as their comments are "disruptive" and "distort and detract from the public conversation."