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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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Iraqi Court Sentences German IS Fighter to Death
January 22, 2018
Iraqi courts meted out a death sentence to a German female foreign fighter for the Islamic State (IS) as part of the Iraqi government’s wholesale roundup of suspected foreign jihadists who came to Iraq to support the fight for the caliphate.
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Police Suspect Islamist Militants in Murder over Polio Vaccinations
January 22, 2018
Pakistani police suspect that Islamist militants murdered a mother-daughter team administering polio vaccinations as part of a childhood immunization campaign in the provincial capital of Quetta, a city where Islamist extremists have targeted polio-immunization workers as "conspirators in a Western plot against Islam."
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Internet Platforms Ramp up Removal of "Hate Speech"
January 22, 2018
Reuters reports on EU monitoring that indicates social media companies are removing two-thirds of "hate speech" reported by users of their platforms within 24 hours, as European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova touts the EU's "soft law" approach over a German model imposing fines on companies that fail to act quickly enough on such speech.
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US Inquiry Reveals Hezbollah Financing in Western Hemisphere
January 22, 2018
The US Attorney General’s unfolding inquiry into the failures of Project Cassandra, an interagency task force mandated to combat the financing mechanisms used by the Islamist group Hezbollah, is revealing analysis of how the capacity for global jihadi Islamism is deeply linked to transnational criminal activities with robust networks throughout the Western Hemisphere.
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