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Kazakhstan Prosecutes Utterance of "Amen" in Mosques
March 30, 2017
Kazakhstan state officials are prosecuting citizens for speaking the word "amen" in mosques, and the state's Muslim Board is seizing mosques charged with such speech violations, based on the finding that the word is an offense to the state-monopoly version of Sunni Islam sanctioned by the country's authoritarian regime.
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Turkey's Islamist Purges Extend to Human Rights Group
March 30, 2017
Turkey's main Islamic human rights organization, Mazlumdee, has undergone an internal purge of individuals and local branches critical of the ruling AKP Islamist government, with new personnel installed who are loyalists to the AKP's Islamist hardline rejection of human rights as a Western invention and connivance.
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Pakistan Plays Key Role in Islamic Military Cooperation
March 30, 2017
The new Pakistan command over the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism could be a game changer for the 41-member-state security arrangement, as Islamabad moves to give strategic heft to a "Muslim NATO" by engineering a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran over Sunni-Shiite conflicts.
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Islamist Militants Organize Jihad in West Africa
March 30, 2017
Mali is the latest battle ground for Islamist militants groups expanding their jihadi activities across West Africa.
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Advocates Seek Collection of IS War Crimes Evidence
March 30, 2017
International human rights advocates are raising alarm bells about the urgency of collecting forensics evidence for use in the prosecution of what are believed to be unprecedented war crimes committed by Islamic State (IS) forces in Iraq and Syria.
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