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Indonesian Brits Promote Sharia Finance in UK
March 27, 2017
The Indonesian Sharia Economic Community in the UK is actively promoting sharia compliant/compatible economic practices as part of a strategy to organize Indonesians in Europe to promote the integration of Islamic finance into Western economies.
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Saudi, Turkish Interests Counter US Goals on Islamist Extremism
March 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia and Turkey continue to view their short-term geopolitical goals in Yemen and Syria as justification for supporting Islamic State and al-Qaeda proxies, creating long-term staying power to the Islamist extremist ideology and jihadi terrorism that the US is working to defeat.
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IS Prepares for Comeback in Mosul
March 27, 2017
Islamic State (IS) militants have their eye on the long game in Iraq through the recapture of their caliphate city of Mosul, taking advantage of internecine squabbling among the various branches of the Iraqi government's military and security apparatus by launching a tactical campaign of suicide attacks and by developing political contacts with Iraqi Sunni militias.
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London Attacker Fits Profile of Western Jihadi
March 27, 2017
The profile of the perpetrator of this week's truck terror attack in London shares many features with other "lone wolf" attackers in Western countries who are claimed by the Islamic State (IS) as soldiers of the caliphate encouraged to carry our low-tech, high-casualty assaults on soft targets.
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IS Targets Christians with Violence as a Recruiting Tool
March 24, 2017
An article from the Washington Institute explains how the noticeable increase in Islamic State (IS) attacks against Christian sites in the Middle East and Europe is part of a deliberate IS tactic to amplify a civilizational narrative pitting "the West against Islam" as a recruiting tactic and propaganda ploy aimed to divert attention from IS military losses in its core Mideast territories.
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