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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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Saudi Vision 2030 Is Best Hope to Reform Wahhabi Islamism
July 26, 2017
According to a recent report by Harvard University experts, the best chance for moderating the destabilizing, violent effects of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi extremist Islamism is the success of the ambitious socioeconomic reform program known as Vision 2030.
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Fatwas Signal Support for IS Use of Nuclear, Chemical Weapons
July 26, 2017
Although Islamic State (IS) supporters have used relatively low-cost and easily available conventional weapons to this point, radical imams have issued fatwas approving the use of nuclear and chemical weapons for jihad.
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NGO Criticizes Indonesian Ban of Islamist Group
July 26, 2017
Human Rights Watch has posted a press release asserting that the Indonesian government's decision to ban the Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir, which supports the replacement of democracy in the country with a caliphate based on sharia law, "constitutes a troubling infringement of the rights of freedom of association and expression."
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Saudi-led Row with Qatar Is Wahhabi Power Struggle
July 24, 2017
The geopolitics of the ongoing crisis pitting a Saudi-led coalition of Arab Gulf monarchies against Qatar have a crucial Islamist subtext based on the competition between Riyadh and Doha for the unrivaled mantle of Wahhabi leadership and, therefore, for control over the strategy for internationalizing that puritanical form of Islamism.
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