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OIC, GCC Create Body Promoting Political Cooperation
November 01, 2017
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have established a high-level joint commission to develop an agenda for strategic cooperation on priority "political issues for the Muslim world."
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OIC Body Pushes UN on Media Coverage of Islam
October 25, 2017
At a recent conference, the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on the UN to combat the "increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric and violent acts in Europe and the US” and to cooperate with OIC member-states to "promote freedom of expression in a responsible manner."
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Afghan Islamist Warlord Returns to Kabul
October 25, 2017
The return of notorious Afghan Islamist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to Kabul as part of a US-EU-NATO-brokered plan for him to lead the Afghan government's engagement in peace negotiations with the Taliban has sparked a major outcry from international human rights groups charging international actors with perpetuating a "culture of impunity" by Islamist groups.
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Turkey’s Ruling Islamists Continue Targeting Civil Society
October 25, 2017
Turkey's Islamist AKP government continues to target prominent members of Turkey’s human rights community and civil society activist groups with ongoing arrests, indefinite detentions, and state media attacks used to frame all AKP opposition as terrorist followers of the alternative Islamist movement of Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen.
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New Data Show over 5,000 Returning IS Foreign Fighters
October 25, 2017
Data retrieved from the capture of the Islamic State’s (IS) capital headquarters of Raqqa in Syria show the potential longterm security destabilization caused by the return of over 5,000 foreign jihadis to their countries of origin in the Mideast and North Africa, Europe, and Chechen Russia.
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