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Qatar-Saudi Imbroglio Highlights Problem of Islamist Patron States
August 08, 2017
The continuing standoff pitting a Saudi-led coalition of Gulf monarchies against Qatar, over the latter's alleged support for both Sunni radical propaganda and Iranian Shiite extremism, has revealed the reality of the dispute as a power struggle for control over competing voices of Sunni Islamist extremism by a cluster of patron states in the globalization of jihadist ideology and terror.
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Iran Dismantles IS Cell
August 08, 2017
In a sign that Islamist sectarian competition is disrupting the domestic order of the biggest patron-state exporters of radical Islamism, Iranian Intelligence announced the dismantling of a domestic Islamic State (IS) cell that was planning a series of attacks on the country's Shiite religious sites to coincide with the upcoming inauguration ceremony of Iran's President.
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Post-IS Iraq and Syria Shift Islamist Threats for NATO
August 08, 2017
The defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in its core territories of Iraq and Syria is leading to adaptation by IS and al-Qaeda toward a model of societal-penetration radicalization and terrorist insurgency within NATO member states and on the alliance's borders in the Balkans, Africa, and the Caucasus.
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Indonesia Plans Sharia Fund for Islamic Pilgrimage
August 07, 2017
The Government of Indonesia is expanding its global footprint in sharia-compliant finance and its profile as the country with the world's biggest mostly Muslim population with the establishment of a Haj Fund Management Agency (BPKH) aiming to manage the world's largest fund to support Islamic pilgrimages to the Saudi city of Mecca.
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UN Official Pushes UK to Double Refugee Acceptance
August 07, 2017
The Evening Standard reports that Volker Turk of the UN High Commission for Refugees has called on the UK to double the number of refugees it accepts, amounting to at least 10,000 asylum seekers, after the year 2020.
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