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Report Links Islamism, Blasphemy Laws, and Rights Violations
August 31, 2017
A newly released report on blasphemy laws by a US government expert commission on international religious freedom reveals the comparatively high number of cases in which Islamist regimes use blasphemy laws to limit fundamental rights, with criminalization under penalty of imprisonment or death in worst-offender countries.
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Trauma Programs Emerge in Post-IS Normalization
August 31, 2017
Governments and nongovernmental organizations are investing resources in traumatology programs designed to assist former Islamic State (IS) victims with the psychological and physical rehabilitation counseling needs crucial to social normalization and sustainable peacebuilding in a post-radical Islamist Iraq and Syria.
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Iran-Hezbollah Alliance Strengthens Global Shiite Jihadism
August 28, 2017
More than three decades of continuous cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Lebanon's militant Islamist group Hezbollah has evolved into a highly sophisticated, Persian-Arabic alliance with a global network of ideological, socioeconomic, and military activities committed to Shiite jihadism.
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Sunni Hardliners Condemn Tunisian Inheritance Reforms
August 28, 2017
Conservative clerics at Egypt's Al-Azhar university, the leading jurisprudential authority in global Sunni Islam, have condemned as impermissible and blasphemous a proposal by Tunisia's president for changes in women's inheritance rights as part of broader legal reforms aimed at gender equality before the law.
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IS Attacks Shiite Mosque in Afghanistan
August 28, 2017
A weekend Islamic State (IS) blast targeting a major Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's capital city is the latest in a spike of sectarian violence driven by Sunni jihadis and is part of the expansion of the radical Islamist theater of operations in the key Southwest Asian countries Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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