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Jihadist Recruiting Relies on Cultural Alienation and Apocalyptic Nihilism
December 18, 2017
Renowned expert on Islam and French public intellectual Olivier Roy analyzes modern jihadism as an ideology that plays on cultural alienation and apocalyptic nihilism to recruit cradle and convert Muslims, so that combatting Islamist terrorism must focus on these features of the global jihadi project.
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US Woman Used Bitcoin to Fund Islamic State
December 18, 2017
The US Department of Justice has charged a woman from Long Island, New York, with using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to transfer laundered money to accounts in China, Turkey, and Pakistan that were used to support Islamic State operations.
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Islamist Totalitarianism Has Specific Internal Logic and Goals
December 18, 2017
A prominent European human rights NGO defines the internal logic of Islamist totalitarianism as the commitment to uniformity at all levels of society and to the formation of a theocratic sharia state to destroy diversity, with dissenting Muslims and other religious communities as collateral damage to the homogenizing push for absolute sameness.
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OIC Rejects Jerusalem Decision, US Role in Conflict
December 18, 2017
Leaders of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation issued a statement from their emergency summit on the recent US recognition of Jerusalem that rejected the US and Israeli positions as "null and void" and that called for a new OIC-led alliance rejecting Washington's role in any future negotiations for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Indonesian Court Rejects Islamic Push for Extramarital Sex Ban
December 18, 2017
Indonesia's Constitutional Court narrowly rejected a petition by conservative Islamic groups to criminalize extramarital sex, with the court case indicating the expanding footprint of Islamist activism in the country.
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