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Pakistan Court Suggests Blasphemy Reforms
August 18, 2017
Human rights experts anticipate strong push-back from Pakistan's hardline Islamist clerics and other parties to the suggestion from the country's High Court that the Parliament review reforms to the country's blasphemy laws, which have gained notoriety because of abusive false accusations and vendetta violence against those labelled "ant-Islamic."
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Turkey's Islamization Policies Target Christians, Jews
August 17, 2017
The controversy in Turkey over the government's moves to convert the Byzantine Orthodox Cathedral of Hagia Sophia into a mosque reflects the state's broader strategy of Islamization of politics and society, including targeting the country's small Christian and Jewish communities and escalating an Islamist foreign policy agenda toward Israel.
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UN Chief Calls for End to Islamophobia, "Hate Speech"
August 17, 2017
Responding to questions from journalists on violence at recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that "racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia" have been "poisoning our societies," and called for people around the world to oppose "hate speech."
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Taliban Leadership Threatens US on Afghan Policy
August 16, 2017
Senior Taliban leadership has sent an open letter to US President Donald Trump threatening that an increase in America's military presence and activities in Afghanistan will not impede the Islamist extremist group's objective of establishing a sharia state and instead will result in "further destruction of American military and economic might."
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IS Targets Bosnia for Islamist Radicalization
August 15, 2017
One month after a major Islamic State (IS) online propaganda magazine called on returning Bosniak caliphate fighters to "spill the dirty blood of apostate" Muslims, the country's Islamic religious and political leaders are calling for counter-radicalization measures to prevent the further penetration of militant Islamism in the center of Europe.
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