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UK Creates Tool to Block Online Terrorist Content
February 14, 2018
The UK's Home Office has announced that it has developed technology that can identify with a high degree of accuracy online terrorist content, such as propaganda from the Islamic State, and that it plans to share this tool with small social-media companies for use in blocking user from uploading such content to their platforms.
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Morocco Trains Women to Prevent Islamist Radicalization
February 14, 2018
The Moroccan government’s approach to countering Islamist extremism includes an intensive focus on prevention and the deliberate incorporation of women trained as Quran experts to leverage the role of women at the grassroots societal level to direct youth away from recruitment and radicalization by violent Islamists.
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Islamic Finance Continues to Make Inroads in West Africa
February 14, 2018
The use of sharia-compliant/compatible finance mechanisms for economic development and infrastructure continues to expand in West Africa, as the government of Mali uses Islamic bond offerings from and management by Saudi Arabia's Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector to raise capital for affordable housing in Mali.
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"Chelsea Bomber" Receives Multiple Life Sentences
February 14, 2018
A US federal judge has given multiple life sentences to the Afghan-born, naturalized American citizen who perpetrated the bombing attacks in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, identifying the perpetrator as a "clear and present" danger to American national security due to the attacks and his efforts, while awaiting a sentence, to convert inmates to radical Islamist ideology.
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"Hate Speech" Moves to Alternative Platforms
February 14, 2018
Politico reports on warnings from security experts and activists that the European Commission's focus on securing action from the major, global social-media companies on the removal of "hate speech" and terrorist propaganda is contributing to the shift of such "extremist" content to alternative platforms that escape EU and government scrutiny.
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