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Global Islamic Summit to Meet in Indonesia on Palestine
March 09, 2016
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority state, is hosting an extraordinary summit of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") on the issue of the "continuing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, the status of Jerusalem," with the global Islamic bloc expected to issue a declaration calling for international action on behalf of Palestinians.
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Turkey's Islamists Continue Assault on Media Freedoms
March 09, 2016
Turkey's Islamist authoritarian government continued its systematic assault on media freedoms in the country with a new spate of takeovers and shutdowns of independent media, with both secularist or Islamist orientations, deemed hostile to the state.
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US Government Uncertain Over MB's Effects on Islamist Extremism
March 09, 2016
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's recent resolution calling for the State Department to designate Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") a terrorist organization is fueling a renewed Washington policy debate over the MB's possible role as a "firewall" against, rather than a "conveyor belt" for, the spread of terrorist Islamist groups.
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US Carries out Preemptive Airstrike Against Al-Shabaab Camp in Somalia
March 09, 2016
Based on credible intelligence of an imminent jihadi attack against US and African Union assets by the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab, the US executed a preemptive airstrike that destroyed a key training camp of the al-Qaeda-affiliated organization hunkered down in the East African state of Somalia.
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UK Rush to Become Islamic Finance Capital Leads to Sharia Restrictions on Government Buildings
March 09, 2016
Five major British government buildings are now run according to sharia law restrictions under conditions imposed by the Islamic finance investors who control that real estate, an example of the consequences of the massive influx of Muslim investors in British sharia bonds resulting from the aggressive move by Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron to make London into "a great capital of Islamic finance."
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