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Experts Predict Shift of IS Front Line to US and Europe
September 19, 2016
Security experts anticipate that Islamic State operatives relocating from the contracting Mideast territorial footprint of the caliphate will make Europe and America the new front line for jihadi attacks and recruitment and radicalization activities.
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US Needs a New Grand Strategy to Respond to Global Jihadism
September 19, 2016
The reality of global jihadism as a military, cultural, and political phenomenon may require a decisive paradigm shift to a "grand strategy" that customizes the tactical approaches of containment and rollback to specific circumstances in order to end the influence of militant Islamism as a force in the 21st-century international order.
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Boko Haram Uses Schoolgirl Hostages as Bargaining Chip in Jihad
September 19, 2016
Boko Haram, the fanatical Islamist group warring to make Nigeria a sharia state, is using the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped more than two years ago to bargain with Nigerian government officials for the release of jihadi terrorists.
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Totalitarianism Rears Head in Turkey's Islamist Factional Struggle
September 19, 2016
Turkey's Islamist regime has taken a hard turn toward totalitarianism in the two-month period since the failed coup attempt against the government, purging and indefinitely imprisoning more than 100,000 citizens for alleged sympathies to the Gulenist Islamist movement that has openly criticized the ruling Islamist party for corruption and dictatorial tendencies.
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Malaysia, OIC Prepare World's First Islamic Venture Capital Fund
September 19, 2016
As part of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's efforts to expand the global footprint of sharia economics, the OIC's Islamic Development Bank and Malaysia, a leading player in the rapidly growing global Islamic financial market, are preparing the world's first Islamic venture capital fund, estimated at $100 million.
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