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Report Warns of Threats of Islamic "Hyperextremism"
November 22, 2016
According to a study by the faith-based organization Aid to the Church in Need, "Islamic hyperextremist" groups, which use social media recruitment, systematic violence, and extreme cruelty for purposes of religious homogenization, constitute a growing threat to international stability and religious diversity.
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Germany Outlaws Islamist Reading Group as Jihadist Front
November 16, 2016
Germany's Interior Ministry has banned The True Religion, an Islamist organization that holds reading groups with German translations of the Quran, after intelligence data pointed to the group as a front to radicalize and recruit jihadists.
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OIC Emergency Meeting Deals with Sunni-Shiite Violence
November 16, 2016
Foreign Ministers from the 57 member-states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation are holding an emergency meeting to address the alleged ballistic missile launch by Iran-supported Houthi militia in Yemen against the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the latest spillover and escalation of the Yemeni proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran.
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Islamist Mentality in Egypt Exacerbates Christian Persecution
November 16, 2016
Coptic Christians in Egypt face a continuing barrage of state discrimination and societal violence and hostility, as Egyptian state authorities, under both Muslim Brotherhood and military-secularist governments, reinforce an Islamist majoritarian mentality that positions the country's indigenous Christian community as second-class citizens.
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Experts Call for US-Russia Cooperation to End Syrian War
November 16, 2016
According to a discussion among Middle East security experts in Washington, DC, the high stakes of precise, decisive, and recalibrated US-Russia cooperation to end the war in Syria involve preventing the creation of an international jihadist vacuum in the Levant with borders close to several key transatlantic partners.
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