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Dutch Court Rejects Defunding of School with Former IS Links
July 31, 2017
In a case reflecting the growing controversy over the impact of Islamism in the Dutch confessionalized private school system, the State Council of the Netherlands has ruled that the Ministry of Education must finance an Islamic school whose administration once included an Islamic State (IS) supporter.
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OIC Puts Israel in Crosshairs over Mosque Controversy
July 28, 2017
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has warned Israel that the OIC's 57 member-states hold Israel responsible for the escalating tension over access to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and that Israel has provoked Muslims worldwide by "making the political conflict into a religious one."
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MB Says Islamists Squeezed It out in Syria
July 28, 2017
A leading figure in Syria's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) claims that the MB has been squeezed out of any potentially moderating role in postwar Syria because the Assad opposition has been captured by the expanded and radicalized Islamist scene in the country.
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June Featured Islamist Expansion in UK Public Sphere
July 28, 2017
A review of legal cases, policy debates, and public developments in the UK reveals a marked expansion in Islamist violence in the public sphere and a tendency toward soft-pedaling government policy responses toward jihadist beliefs and actions under the banner of preserving multicultural tolerance.
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IS Ramps up Anti-Shiite Propaganda Against Iran
July 27, 2017
The Islamic State's (IS) major online propaganda platforms show a decided increase in anti-Iran propaganda, with direct sectarian appeals to Iran's Sunni minority to attack and replace the Shiite regime with an IS model of Sunni Islamism.
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