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IS Leader's Reported Death Does Not End Violent Islamism
July 12, 2017
Analysts are cautioning that observers should not equate reports by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirming the death of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with the end of violent Islamism, pointing to evidence suggesting that supporters of IS's ideology have already begun to shift their operational focus to the Western context.
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OIC Foreign Ministers Tout Counter-terrorism Efforts
July 12, 2017
The 44th summit of the Foreign Ministers Council of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) committed the global Islamic entity to economic and cultural cooperation to combat terrorism and congratulated the 57 member-states for "promoting positive dialogue and tolerance and for rejecting violent extremism.”
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EU Mulls Action Against German "Hate Speech" Fines
July 12, 2017
Politico reports that the tension between the generally hands-off European Commission policy toward internet companies and Germany's strict new laws providing for fines of social media giants that fail to remove "extremist" content could boil over into legal action against Germany following the country's elections later this year.
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IS Resilience Poses Continued Global Threat
July 11, 2017
Western analysts are warning that, despite the decisive military defeats and territorial contraction suffered by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, the group's resilience through adaptation to an insurgency model makes the Islamist extremist group a continuing threat in scope and scale to global stability.
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UNESCO Praises Moroccan Plan Against "Violent Extremism"
July 11, 2017
As part of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) campaigns for "global citizenship" education and education to prevent "violent extremism," UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova visited Moroccan educational institutions with the King of the country to survey the promotion of Islamic teaching "as a source of dialogue and peace."
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