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Saudi Rebranding of Islam Ignores Problem of Islamism
November 20, 2017
As Saudi Arabia promotes the kingdom’s new King Salman Complex for Islamic Scholarship to rebrand Islam as moderate and anti-violence, skeptics charge that continuing state finance and control over the Center’s scholars and output means Wahhabi thought and other forms of extremist Islamist will remain unchallenged and, therefore, pervasive.
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Mideast Geopolitical Realignment Centers on Competing Islamisms
November 20, 2017
The realignment of Mideast geopolitics underway since the formation of the anti-Qatar quartet of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt turns on the competing Islamisms of the region's two main Islamist theocracies, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran.
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Pro-IS Media in Egypt Calls for Attacks on Christians
November 20, 2017
An Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) issued a call through its media channels for attacks on Coptic Orthodox Christians as "infidels" who deserve violence because they reject their second-class status as Christians under Islam.
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YouTube Removes Videos Related to Yemeni Islamist
November 20, 2017
YouTube applied its anti-extremism policy of banning videos that incite violence or terrorism and of banning accounts for individuals named on terrorist lists to remove from the site the entire body of 70,000 works related to radical Yemeni Islamist extremist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Tensions Escalate Between Israel, Jihadi Group
November 20, 2017
The war of words between Israel and the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad, which receives strong funding and materiel support from Iran and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, has intensified to the level of high alert for both Israel and the militant organization, which publicly warned its followers that Israel's destruction of a Gaza tunnel in October was "an act of war."
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