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Hamas Looks to Turkey for Islamist United Front on Palestinian Cause
November 11, 2015
Islamist leaders from Hamas are looking to Turkey's recently reelected Islamist government to deepen their ties in a united front defined by an anti-Israel rejectionism and marginalization of all non-Islamist Palestinian factions.
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Sunni Islamist Extremists Commit Murderous Fratricide Against Shiites in Afghanistan
November 11, 2015
In reaction to last week's brutal beheadings of seven Shiites by Sunni extremists of the Islamic State ("IS"), who also enjoy affiliation with Taliban splinter groups, Afghans turned out to protest the failure of the country's security apparatus to halt the expansion of Islamist sectarian fratricide.
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West Africa Under Siege by Boko Haram
November 11, 2015
The government of Chad has imposed a state of emergency in the Lake Chad region of West Africa following the recent female suicide bombing against a mosque in Cameroon, the calling card of Boko Haram violence aimed at spreading sharia law from Nigeria throughout West Africa.
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Bosnian Courts Crack Down on Salafists Recruitment for Jihad in Syria
November 11, 2015
Bosnia's judiciary is cracking down on the country's Salafist leaders, in a series of fines and jail sentences aimed to disrupt radical Islamist recruitment networks that function as European feeders into a pipeline for jihadis to Syria.
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Islamist Extremists in Bangladesh Use History and Modernity to Justify Violence
November 11, 2015
The spate of assassinations of secular bloggers and foreign workers in Bangladesh reflects the deliberate effort by global and local Islamists to capitalize on Bangladesh's history of divisions over the role of religion in the state and to present Islamism as the solution to the country's uneven economic development and rapid urbanization.
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