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Details Emerge from IS Plot to Blow up Statue of Liberty
January 22, 2018
Court documents publicly released in advance of next month’s sentencing of two New Yorkers convicted of an Islamic State (IS) plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty reveal IS's focus on jihadist networking and activities targeting New York, as well as the continued push to weaponize easily available items such as pressure cookers for Islamist terrorism.
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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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