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Turkish Newspaper Calls for Islamic Invasion of Israel
March 09, 2018
Turkey news sources supportive of the country’s Islamist government are pushing for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to form a global Islamic Army that would marshal all of the OIC’s 57 member states’ conventional military capabilities, along with Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, to invade Israel.
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Malaysian Court Limits Religious Freedom in Deference to Islamism
March 09, 2018
A Malaysian federal court recently ruled that freedom to convert to Christianity falls under the legal purview of the country’s sharia courts, a determination viewed by rights experts as a nod to the growing influence of hardline Islamists seeking to dominate politics and society in the South Asian country with a multi-religious, multi-ethnic composition.
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Authorities Arrest Utah Teen for IS Activities
March 07, 2018
Utah police and the FBI have arrested a local teen charged with supporting the Islamic State (IS) terror group in two separate incidents, including planting a homemade bomb at his high school and raising the IS flag at another area high school last month.
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Kazakhstan Announces Program to Prevent Islamist Radicalization
March 07, 2018
The deputy chief of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee announced that the oil-rich, authoritarian regime will dedicate close to a billion dollars over the next five years to educational and outreach programs designed to curtail the radicalization of the country's majority-Muslim population, with particular focus dedicated to foreign fighters returning from Iraq and Syria.
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UK Central Bank Plans Expansion of Islamic Finance
March 07, 2018
The Bank of England announced plans to launch a new sharia-compliant facility available to a broader range of UK financial institutions to boost demand for Islamic-finance products, aimed to support the goal of making London the global hub of sharia finance in the West.
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