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Hezbollah Wins Lebanese Elections
May 08, 2018
The Shiite Islamist political party Hezbollah won a majority in Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections in almost a decade, strengthening the Iran-supported militant group’s hold in the country at a time of increasing regional tensions driven by Sunni-Shiite sectarianism and growing Iran-Israel tensions.
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Indonesian Court Upholds Ban on Islamist Group
May 08, 2018
Indonesia's state court rejected the appeal by Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT), a global Islamist organization with an estimated 10,000 members, to overturn last year’s government decision to ban the group on the grounds of threatening the country’s national unity.
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OIC Creates New Strategic Committee on Rohingya Crisis
May 08, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has established a new strategic committee for international mobilization and coordination of support to respond to the humanitarian crisis associated with massive refugee flows of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
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Report Highlights Homegrown US Islamist Extremist Attacks
May 08, 2018
A report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) indicates that most Islamist terrorist attacks attempted inside the US over the last 15 years were perpetrated by lone-wolf, domestic extremists and proposes anti-radicalization policy remedies that combine diversity education, police anti-bias training, improved gun control, and mental health programs.
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Pakistan Revokes National Honors from Religious Minority Member
May 08, 2018
Pakistan’s National Assembly voted to revoke posthumously all national honors bestowed on a Nobel Prize winner because he was a member of the country’s Ahmadiyya religious minority, a sect considered heretics by the country’s Sunni majority, in a move to satisfy demands from an extremist-militant Islamist group called Movement in Service to the Prophet.
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