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Iraq Court Sentences Women IS Fighters, Wives to Death
March 01, 2018
Some international rights groups have criticized Iraq's Central Criminal Court for sentencing 16 Turkish women to death, pending appeal, for the crime of "belonging to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group," warning of the potential for coercion of women who went to Iraq either to join the caliphate or to marry IS fighters.
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French Leaders Announce Measures Against Radicalization
March 01, 2018
France’s President and Prime Minister have announced a series of measures aimed at addressing what they characterize as the “slow burning threat” of Islamist radicalization in France, by augmenting stricter counter-terrorism legislation with policies such as the creation of isolation zones for imprisoned Islamist militants.
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Turkey’s President Glorifies Child Soldiers with Islamist Rhetoric
March 01, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has generated controversy with some opposition politicians and rights groups for using Islamist discourse and nationalist imagery in his comment to a young girl dressed in military fatigues that she will be honored with a Turkish flag if martyred in the country’s current military invasion of the Syrian city of Afrin.
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Indonesia Floats Sharia Green Bonds
March 01, 2018
Indonesia is the first country in Asia to sell government green bonds and to make the US$1.25 billion deal sharia-compliant, opening the way for Islamic financing arrangements to be applied to government efforts to raise state funds for environmentally friendly projects.
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Turkey-UAE Competition Plays out in Broad Geopolitical Context
March 01, 2018
Growing diplomatic tensions between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the legitimacy and legacy of an Ottoman military commander laid bare the intensifying competition between the two Mideast states for leadership in transregional Islamist movements and for geopolitical influence stretching around the world.
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