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IS Video Confirms Recruiting Pipeline to British Jihadi Outfit
January 11, 2016
British security experts believe that the speaker in the latest Islamic State ("IS") propaganda video is a British citizen and member of the outlawed British Islamist extremist group, al-Muhajiroun, whose members have perpetrated multiple Islamist terror attacks in Britain, thereby confirming transnational radicalization and recruitment linkages to the IS jihadi operation in Syria.
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Congressional Vote Proposes Aid Cuts to Terrorist Travel Enablers
January 08, 2016
The US Congress is voting on new legislation that would cut foreign economic and military assistance to countries designated as enablers of jihadi global travel, a move aimed to develop a national strategy for countering terrorist travel associated with violent Islamist threats to American homeland security.
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Turkey's Islamist Factional Struggles Penetrate US Lobbying and Politics
January 08, 2016
Rising social tensions and violence inside Turkey, between the governing AKP Islamist party and the transnational Islamist movement of US-based Turkish Muslim cleric Fetullah Gulen, are playing out inside Washington politics, as both Islamist factions are spending millions on lobbying efforts to influence US policymakers' stance toward the competing Islamist factions.
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Muslims Disrupt Colorado Factory over Prayer Demands
January 07, 2016
The Council on American-Islamic Relations ("CAIR"), an advocacy and lobbying group for the promotion of Muslim-American interests, is charging a Colorado meat-packing plant with religious discrimination, after 11 Muslims walked off their jobs and 150 Muslims staged protests over demands for collective prayer that disrupted the factory's production schedule.
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UN Meeting Seeks Human-Rights Solution to IS Recruitment
January 07, 2016
At a recent meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee, UN Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman called for governments to look to the UN Charter and to international human-rights law as the bases for their response to Islamic State ("IS") recruiting efforts and foreshadowed the UN chief's release of a UN Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.
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