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Al-Shabaab Attack Reminds East Africa of Jihadi Resilience
November 03, 2015
Al-Shabaab's latest lethal terror attack in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu is a reminder of the resilience of the jihadi group, which aims to impose sharia law throughout Somalia and East Africa.
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Islamism and Authoritarianism Are Winners in Turkey's Elections
November 03, 2015
Turkey's Islamists scored a major victory, as the Justice and Development Party ("AKP") has secured a little over 50 percent of the vote in snap elections, raising serious concerns about the continuation of increasing one-party authoritarianism under the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as the specter of growing ethnic polarization and violence against the country's large Kurdish population.
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Iran's Religious Leaders Disagree on Islamic Law Versus International Law for Human Rights
November 03, 2015
Pressures from international rights groups in the wake of the US-Iran nuclear deal have intensified longstanding disputes among Iran's clerical elites about flexibility in Islamic law related to domestic human rights protections and punishments, especially regarding punitive Koranic punishments.
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Islamist Extremist Threats Dominate Gulf Security Summit
November 03, 2015
The destabilizing security threats from the spread of Islamic State ("IS") control and the expansion of Iranian influence dominated discussions at the annual Manama Dialogue Security Conference in Bahrain sponsored by the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
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OIC Expands Footprint in the Americas
November 03, 2015
Guyana's discussions about membership in the Islamic Development Bank, the main financial institution of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), are part of the country's move toward greater political, cultural, and economic integration with the OIC, and also signal the OIC's expanding footprint in South America.
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