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Saudi-Maldives Ties Create Openings for Puritanical Islamism to Indian Ocean
November 25, 2015
The governments of Saudi Arabia and the Maldives announced a new agreement to "improve relations in the field of religious cooperation," a move that gives Saudi Arabia the opportunity to use both religious and cultural platforms, as well as economic assistance, to spread puritanical Wahhabi Islamism into the Indian Ocean region.
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OIC Member-States Are Key Exporters of Global Islamist Violence
November 25, 2015
The 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") is implicated in the export of global Islamist violence, given that 27 OIC member-states are identified as key suppliers of foreign fighters for the Islamic State ("IS"), based on findings in the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, a comprehensive database of terror activities collated by global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace and collected by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.
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Extremist Islamist Groups Top Global Terrorism Index
November 20, 2015
Boko Haram and the Islamic State ("IS"), both extremist Islamist groups aiming to impose sharia law in Africa and the Mideast, topped the Global Terrorism Index for 2015 and are expected to continue to lead global violence metrics in 2015, according to the respected global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace.
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Paris Attacks Lead to Focus on Belgium's Serious Jihadi Problem
November 20, 2015
Last week's brutal Islamic State attacks in Paris underscored Belgium's serious problem with radical Islamism and jihadis, given that the country has sent more jihadis per capita to Syria than any other country in Europe and in light of comparatively high rates of foreign-fighter returnees to Belgium.
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Latest Attack Pattern Suggests IS Is Globalizing Jihad
November 18, 2015
The attacks in Paris by Islamic State ("IS") supporters follow IS attacks on pro-Hezbollah neighborhoods in Beirut and the downing of a Russian airliner over the Egyptian Sinai, signaling a new pattern of globalized jihad operations against civilian targets and a likely uptick of Syrian refugees fleeing the brutality and fanaticism of the caliphate territories in Iraq and Syria.
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