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Boko Haram Launches New Attack in Niger
January 19, 2018
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected of perpetrating yet another suicide attack in Niger with both military and civilian casualties, sustaining the group’s efforts to impose an Islamic caliphate in West Africa.
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Islamic Finance Leaders Debate Cryptocurrencies
January 19, 2018
A fatwa from Egypt’s highest-ranking Islamic cleric, the Grand Mufti of al-Azhar University, forbidding trade in cryptocurrencies as incompatible with Islamic teachings has intensified debates among leading Islamic finance states that support the use of cryptocurrencies as part of an effort to digitize and globalize sharia compatible/compliant finance.
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Iran Pushes to Lead OIC United Front on Jerusalem
January 19, 2018
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is exerting strong pressure at the summit of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for the 57 member-states to unify behind Iran’s Islamist regime in making the issue of Palestine a core OIC cause and in taking “retrospective” measures to punish the US and its allies regarding the status of Jerusalem.
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Timbuktu Performers Push back Against Islamist Extremism
January 19, 2018
The revival of local music and performance culture in the Malian city of Timbuktu signals the gradual push-back of local societal and military actors against the presence of violent Islamist groups, spearheaded by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in the African Sahel region.
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Companies Vigorously Apply German "Hate Speech" Law
January 18, 2018
The Economist reports that social media companies are broadly applying Germany's "NetzDG" law requiring them to speedily remove "illegal hate speech" from their platforms or face stiff penalties, showing the complications of defining sweeping terms as companies take down content including satirical articles and criticism of anti-migrant sentiment.
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