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Chinese Step up Actions Against Uighur Muslims Under Countering Islamist Extremism Policy
January 19, 2016
Chinese officials are preparing to draft new regulations on countering religious extremism, aimed at the Uighur Muslim population in western China, whom Beijing blames for an uptick in violent Islamist attacks in the county but whom international rights groups defend as victims of Han Chinese ethnic and religious discrimination.
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Indonesian President's Response to IS Attacks Emphasizes Policing Approach to Violent Islamism
January 19, 2016
Indonesia's President issued an official response to the recent terror attack by Islamic State ("IS") sympathizers, choosing to emphasize policing, rule of law, and societal-cohesion policies, rather than counter-terrorism, as the optimal response to Islamist jihadi groups trying to penetrate the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
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French Officials Warn IS Is Seeking Chemical Weapons
January 19, 2016
France's Prime Minister has requested that Parliament extend the country's state of emergency for three months, warning that the Islamic State's ("IS") recent terror attack in Paris could be a prelude to the group's efforts to acquire chemical and biological weapons for future jihadist attacks.
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Saudi-Iran Competition Fuels Islamist Radicalization in Pakistan
January 19, 2016
Pakistan is becoming an ever-intensifying target for cooptation in the competition for hegemony in global Islamic geopolitics between two Islamist extremist regimes, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with massive funding by both countries to Pakistan's Islamic parochial schools and Saudi pressures on Pakistan to join Sunni-led sectarian military ventures against pro-Iran Shiite regimes in the Mideast.
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Assault in Burkina Faso Reflects African Sweep of Violent Islamism
January 19, 2016
The high-casualty attack on a hotel in the capital of the African nation of Burkina Faso by a local affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ("AQIM") points to the emergence of Africa as a new front line in the globalization of violent Islamist groups that take advantage of corrupt governments, endemic poverty, and criminality to radicalize and recruit from local populations.
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