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NATO and G20 Face Problems with Islamist Insiders
November 25, 2015
As the United States has stepped up efforts to mobilize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ("NATO") and the Group of 20 ("G20") in a multilateral strategy to combat the Islamic State ("IS"), Washington faces challenges from spoilers inside NATO and the G20, namely, the key Islamist states of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
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Saudis Continue to Use Death Sentences to Punish Free Speech
November 25, 2015
Saudi Arabia's infamous use of death sentences to crush speech freedoms was on display again this past week, when a local court ordered the execution of a young blogger for "renouncing Islam."
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Islamist Power Struggles Fuel Anti-Semitism in Turkey
November 25, 2015
In the latest incident of rising anti-Semitism that has caused a precipitous exodus by Turkey's Jewish community, Ankara's courts, which are controlled by the country's governing Islamist party, are investigating one of Turkey's most prominent Jewish businessmen for providing "financial and moral support to parallel structures," a charge aimed at the opposition Islamist movement of Fetullah Gulen.
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Global Islamist Violence Pushes Western Countries to Raise Terror Warnings
November 25, 2015
The US government has issued a global travel advisory for American citizens, and Brussels remains on full lockdown, as Western countries identify a clear and present danger of violence by global Islamist groups aiming to capitalize on the recent Islamic State ("IS") terror attack in Paris.
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Global-Local Approach Signals Strategic Shift for IS
November 25, 2015
The Paris attack by the Islamic State ("IS") may signal a strategic paradigm shift for the Islamist jihadi group, whereby spectacular global successes against soft targets in the West are utilized as a recruiting tool to help IS in its main objective of consolidating a localized caliphate that can expand outward from Iraq and Syria.
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