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Iran Steps into Key OIC Finance Position
December 19, 2016
Iran will chair the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Islamic Financial Services Board in 2017, giving the Islamic Republic a key role in standard-setting for global sharia finance and the country's economic re-integration, after years of isolation due to the effects of US economic sanctions, within the 57-member-state global Islamic group.
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West Faces Security Threat from Returning Foreign Fighters
December 19, 2016
The weakening of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate with military defeats in Iraq and Syria poses a blowback problem for Western security, as jihadists returning to Western countries from the caliphate frontline are likely to remain committed to jihadi goals and ideology in their European countries of origin.
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Egyptian Courts Support MB Asset, Property Claims
December 16, 2016
Egyptian courts during the tenure of current President Fatta al-Sisi, which ousted the short-lived Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government in 2013, have issued almost 300 decisions in favor of MB claims about assets and property seized by the Sisi government, suggesting that tensions between pro- and anti-Islamist factions are rife within the state's legal institutions.
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Latest Attack in Nigeria Uses Young Girls for Islamist Terror
December 16, 2016
The latest suicide bombing that killed 56 people in a Nigerian marketplace bore all the hallmarks of the tactical shift by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram involving the use of young girls to carry out terror attacks against civilian targets in the ongoing jihadi war to impose sharia law throughout Nigeria.
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International Jihadism Is the Victor in Syria War
December 16, 2016
According to Hassan Mneimneh of the Fikra Forum, given the hijacking of the anti-Assad opposition by Islamist extremists, the use of Syria as a proxy war for competing models of Islamist theocracy, and the continuing operation of global jihadis in Syria and the Levant, the real victor in the Syrian war is international jihadism.
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