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Europe Faces "Time Bomb" in Migration Crisis
October 19, 2016
Politico reports that an architect of the EU's pact with Turkey to share refugees from the Middle East in return for EU aid and visa liberalization is warning that the unimplemented deal is exacerbating the conditions of asylum seekers in Greek migrant camps and could encourage migrants to test EU borders north of Greece and gain entry along the Balkan route.
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Education Is Battleground for Islamists in Jordan
October 18, 2016
The Jordanian Ministry of Education's textbook reform initiative, moving away from messages equating Islam with ethics and citizenship toward messages of religious pluralism, highlights a recognition by state policymakers that Islamists are targeting public education for religious indoctrination, radicalization, and militant activism.
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Floggings Increase as Sharia Intensifies in Indonesian Province
October 18, 2016
Indonesia's Aceh Province, governed by sharia law since the negotiated victory of an Islamist insurgency there in 2005, has witnessed a sharp increase in public floggings as a mode of imposing Islamic social conformity, signaling a subtle shift in the local impact of Islamism in the country with the world's largest Muslim population.
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Boko Haram Forces Girls to Choose Radicalization or Enslavement
October 18, 2016
Following their negotiated release, the small group of schoolgirls held in captivity by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram for more than two years has reported that the militants forced them to choose between jihadist radicalization or enslavement to the group's fighters.
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Jihadi Islamism Is Positioned to Survive Battles of Mosul, Aleppo
October 18, 2016
Security experts warn that the outcome of any ouster of Islamic State forces from Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq will likely be continuing low-level violence among competing Sunni and Shiite militias that eventually consolidate a permanent Islamist presence in a new geopolitical configuration of power in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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