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Evolving Global Jihadist Landscape Presents Complex Challenges for US Response
January 19, 2016
The increasingly competitive global Islamist landscape, exemplified by hegemonic struggles between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, involves two alternative models, one focused on violence to fast-track implantation of sharia and the other on the gradualist imposition of sharia through gains in local support, thereby demanding a more complex, differentiated threat response by the United States.
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Jakarta Attack Shows Broad Reach of IS
January 19, 2016
The Associated Press reports that the Islamic State ("IS") recent suicide bombings in the capital of Indonesia, funded through an Indonesian national who is now based in Syria, demonstrates IS's ability to finance and carry out deadly attacks across the globe.
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Radical Islamization in Malaysia Produces Societal Tensions and Security Threats
January 15, 2016
Radical Islamization in Malaysia, supported by an influx of funds and radical imams from Saudi Arabia, is increasing socio-cultural tensions caused by the Arabization of Malaysian Islam and is aggravating security risks associated with recruitment by Islamic State ("IS") actors.
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US Relies on UN for Latin American Refugee Screening
January 15, 2016
The US government has announced that it will expand its reliance on the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") to conduct initial screenings of asylum seekers by giving UNHCR the authority to pre-screen applicants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala before they are re-settled in the US.
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US Think Tank Critiques Congressional Resolution on Islamophobia as Free-Speech Violation
January 15, 2016
According to a think tank focused on national security strategy, a recently passed US Congressional Resolution (H. Res 569) condemning "hateful rhetoric" toward Muslims in the United States points to the corrosive effects on free speech caused by conflating criticism of radical Islamist violence with Islamophobia as a form of religious racism.
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