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Survey: Islamists Use Opportunism in Deploying Scripture
January 30, 2018
A recent survey by the Brookings Institution reveals a strong tendency toward opportunism and pragmatism by Islamist preachers, politicians, and terrorists in their selective use of Islamic scripture to justify political platforms, social policies, and jihadist actions, suggesting the policymaking importance of education and media for countering extremist Islamism.
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Indian Groups Accuse Saudi Arabia of Politicizing Pilgrimage
January 29, 2018
India’s diverse Islamic organizations have called out Saudi Arabia for using control over pilgrimage (haj) polices for Islamic holy places inside the Kingdom as political leverage to pressure Muslims worldwide to adhere to the extremist Wahhabi Sunni Islamism propagated by the Saudi theocratic regime.
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Taliban Sustain Pressure with Ambulance Assault in Afghanistan
January 29, 2018
The latest assault by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a high-casualty attack using an ambulance against a police checkpoint in Kabul, underscores the Islamist extremist group’s resilience.
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IS Militants Clash with Revolutionary Guard Inside Iran
January 29, 2018
The recent engagement in Western Iran between Sunni jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and units of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the vanguard of that country’s Shiite theocratic regime potential for regional volatility, demonstrates the escalation of clashes between Sunni and Shiite fundamentalists in the Mideast.
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IS Carries Out Lethal Attack on Save the Children Afghanistan
January 29, 2018
Islamic State (IS) affiliates in Afghanistan perpetrated a lethal siege against the Save the Children offices in the city of Jalalabad, only days after the massive assault by Taliban forces against the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul and as the latest in a series of attacks by Islamist extremists aiming to oust all international nongovernmental organizations from the Southwest Asian region.
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