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Violent Islamism Exerts Pernicious Effects on US Free-Speech Standards
January 12, 2016
Calls to restrict violent and hateful propaganda from extremist Islamists on social media and websites have produced concerns that these restrictions would give Islamists a victory over the United States' robust standards for the protection of the freedom of speech under the First Amendment to the country's Constitution.
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NGO Highlights US Reliance on UN in Refugee Resettlement
January 12, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Center for Immigration Studies has published an article advocating increased scrutiny of the practices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") given the US's reliance on the agency to select and pre-screen Syrian refugees for resettlement within the country.
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Saudi-Iran Feud Marks Dangerous Escalation in Geopolitics of Competing Islamisms
January 12, 2016
The rupture in diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, provoked by Saudi Arabia's execution of a popular Shiite clear and subsequent Iranian mob attacks against the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, reflects a dangerous geopolitical escalation in the competition between two extremist versions of Sunni and Shiite Islamism associated with the globalization of violent jihad.
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Saudi Aramco IPO Will Change the Face of the Global Islamic Finance Industry
January 12, 2016
Officials from Saudi Arabia's ruling monarchy have announced the start of an aggressive privatization of state assets, beginning with an Initial Public Offering ("IPO") of the global energy and gas colossus Saudi Aramco, a move that will completely alter the size and impact of the global Islamic finance industry by increasing assets from current estimates of $1.6-$2.1 trillion to a potential valuation of $10 trillion.
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Migration Crisis Exacerbates Germany's Islamization Challenges of Social Violence and Intolerance
January 11, 2016
The influx of over 800,000 Muslim migrants into Germany in 2015 generated huge integration challenges that are expected to intensify, including the emergence of no-go zones controlled by "sharia police" in working-class urban centers, sexual assaults against women for "provocative" and "culturally insensitive" behavior, and youth radicalization by Salafists in German mosques with fusing from Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
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