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IS Threatens to Disrupt Iraqi Elections
April 24, 2018
Islamic State (IS) actors have issued new threats to attack polling stations in Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary elections as a move opposing control by "Iranian Shiite infidels" and showing the group's continuing activity in the country.
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Central Bank Introduces Islamic Banking in Afghanistan
April 24, 2018
The Afghan Central Bank has licensed the Islamic Bank of Afghanistan to apply sharia-compliant/compatible principles of Islamic finance in all its operations as it seeks to facilitate Islamic banking in the country's banking system to attract assets.
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Iranian Morality Police Assault Sparks Public Outrage
April 24, 2018
Mobile footage of Iran’s morality police assaulting a young woman whose head was only partially covered has sparked public outrage across the country against the religious police unit and has led to renewed public criticism of the compulsory Islamic dress code and, more generally, against the Islamic theocratic regime governing the country since 1979.
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IS Cell Bombs Kabul Shiite Neighborhood
April 23, 2018
An Islamic State (IS) cell in Afghanistan executed a mass-casualty suicide bombing attack in a Shiite neighborhood in Kabul, with the latest in a spate of attacks by the Sunni jihadi group against the country’s Shiite minority indicating the intensification of sectarianism as a driver of violence by radical Islamists.
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Belgian Party Campaigns on Sharia State Platform
April 23, 2018
Belgium’s Islam Party is campaigning in the approaching Fall 2018 municipal elections on a platform of converting the country into a sharia state, prompting several Belgian politicians to call for a ban on extremist parties whose platforms oppose the country’s Constitution.
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