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Islamist Civil War Will Determine Future of Iraq
October 19, 2015
The Islamist civil war in Iraq between Shiite and Sunni factions reflects a complex political struggle that will determine the viability of a unified Iraq, with geopolitical implications extending well beyond the Middle East.
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Islamic State on Af-Pak Border Gaining Ground with Arms and Brutality
October 14, 2015
The Islamic State in the Khorasan (the ancient region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan) is making incremental gains in a guerrilla war against both the Taliban and the Afghan government and is using extreme, systematic brutality to subdue populations captured in those areas.
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Violence in Turkey Highlights Islamists' Aggravation of Democracy Deficit
October 14, 2015
Protests by massive crowds paying respects to activists killed in twin bombings during a peace rally in Turkey called for an end to "fascism" under the country's Islamist government.
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Indonesia Moves Aggressively to Grow Islamic Finance in Southeast Asia's Largest Economy
October 14, 2015
Indonesia's Financial Services Authority ("FSO") announced the government's five-year plan to aggressively grow the sharia compliant/compatible financial services in what is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country and Southeast Asia's largest economy.
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Islamists in Turkey and Malaysia Rely on Anti-Semitism to Bolster Authoritarian Rule
October 09, 2015
The leaders of the ruling Islamist parties in Malaysia and Turkey are using similar discourses of blatant, aggressive anti-Semitism to rile popular anger against the "international Jewish lobby" as an external threat and to silence domestic opposition by accusing them of conspiracies by "clandestine Jews."
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