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Iran's Election Outcome Signals Islamist Resilience
May 30, 2017
Ayatollah Hassan Rouhani's victory in Iran's presidential elections signals the possible global impact over the long term of the country's Islamist revolutionary model, as his big-tent alliance of "modern theocrats" views moderate religious-political reform as the optimal mechanism for resilience and durability.
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Taliban Targets Religious Scholars in Afghan Struggle
May 30, 2017
Taliban militants have augmented their jihadi war against the Afghan government with a move to slim the ranks of religious-intellectual dissenters, using a sharp increase in targeted killings of Islamic clerics who reject Talabani-style, violent Islamism.
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Standoff in Philippines Produces Rights Violations
May 30, 2017
Civilian casualties are growing as Islamists battle the Philippines military for control of the key southern city of Marawi, while international and local human rights activists condemn jihadists for ransoming and murdering hostages and the country's president for apparently green-lighting rape by the military.
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Islamists Gain Ground in Bangladesh with Assault on Statues
May 30, 2017
Bangladesh's hardline Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam scored another win in its sociopolitical campaign to impose sharia law across the country, including blasphemy statutes and strict gender separation in public spaces, by convincing state authorities to remove a sculpture of Lady Justice from the front of the Supreme Court building.
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OIC Chief Calls for Global Muslim Solidarity
May 26, 2017
The Secretary-General of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on Muslims worldwide to show solidarity in "rallying the forces and safeguarding the rights" of the global Islamic community (ummah) against threats and characterized the Saudi Arabia-based OIC as the voice of moderation in international Islam.
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