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German Minister Calls for EU "Hate Speech" Fines
April 05, 2017
AP reports that, as the German Government advanced legislation imposing fines of up to 50 million euros on social media platforms that do not rapidly remove what authorities determine is "hate speech" or fake news, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas argued that the EU must take up similar measures to make them effective.
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Pakistani Taliban Ratchet up Sectarian Violence
March 31, 2017
A Shiite mosque in Pakistan suffered high casualties in another terror attack by the Pakistani branch of the Afghan Taliban (TTP), as the banned Islamist extremist group continues to ratchet up Sunni-Shiite sectarian tensions in an effort to establish Sunni militant sharia rule throughout the two Southwest Asian countries.
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Study Signals Challenge of Islamism to World Order
March 31, 2017
A new report by the Brookings Institution suggests that Islamism, an intellectual system that privileges the religious community of the Muslim "umma" over loyalty to the nation-state, may present a far greater long-term challenge to international order than the threats posed by Islamic terror entities like the Islamic State or al-Qaeda.
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IS Uses Water Claim to Delegitimize Opponents
March 31, 2017
Islamic State (IS) ideologues are spreading rumors and social media reports that anti-IS forces are aiming to capture the massive Tabqa dam on the Euphrates to use water as a weapon against Syrian citizens loyal to IS fighters battling to maintain control over Raqqa, the de facto caliphate capital located near the Tabqa facility.
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Italian Police Arrest Kosovo Islamists Planning Venice Attack
March 30, 2017
Italian police have arrested three Kosovar jihadis connected to Islamist radical networks stretching from Southern Europe to the Mideast for plotting an attack on Venice's famed Rialto Bridge, a high-casualty soft target the group had selected as a copycat to the Islamic State "lone-wolf" attack last week in London.
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