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OIC Members Call for "WMD-Free" Middle East
January 24, 2018
At its annual meeting, the Parliamentary Union of members-states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) passed a resolution to make the Middle East a weapons-of-mass-destruction-
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US Seeks Extradition of al-Qaeda Operative from France
January 24, 2018
The US Department of Justice has filed an official request seeking extradition of a German national currently imprisoned in France, on charges of providing critical technological and operational support to al-Qaeda leadership planning to execute American and Israeli targets around the world.
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Turkish Religious Body Promotes Political Islam
January 24, 2018
An article in The Economist examines how Turkey's directorate of religious affairs, called Diyanet, has moved under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdogan from its position as a moderating influence on radical, political Islam to one of its "main platforms," illustrated by a recent entry on the body's website stating that Islamic law permits the marriage of girls as young as nine.
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Sharia Law Leads to Public Lashings in Indonesia
January 22, 2018
Local authorities in Indonesia’s autonomous Aceh Province, which imposes strict sharia law, publicly flogged, among others, a Christian man for selling alcohol on Fridays and an unmarried couple for sitting close to one another, as the country with the world’s largest Muslim population shows signs of increasing pressure from Islamist fundamentalist forces.
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Unresolved IS Promises Portend More Mideast Violence
January 22, 2018
Some experts on the Islamic State (IS) explain the group’s appeal in the Mideast as a function of popular hopes for dignity and development through Salafist utopian promises and warn that IS’s failure to deliver on those promises will create opportunities for new, radical, nihilist Islamist and secularist movements in the region.
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