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IS Targets Protestant Christians in Turkey
September 09, 2015
Protestant Christians report that their leaders and congregations are being targeted with systematic death threats by the Islamic State ("IS") on social media, noting that longstanding violations of their religious freedom "are not anything new" for Christians in supposedly secular Turkey, a country whose Islamist government has only recently shifted from tacit and active support to opposition to IS.
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UN Reports Childhood Education a Massive Casualty of Islamist Violence
September 09, 2015
A comprehensive new report by the UN Children's Fund ("UNICEF") indicates that childhood education is a massive casualty of the Islamist-related violence creating upheaval across the Mideast and Africa region, with upwards of 13 million children currently without access to any form of educational services.
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Boko Haram Targets Cameroon in Latest Lethal Attack
September 09, 2015
Militants from Boko Haram carried out twin suicide bombings that killed at least 30 civilians in Cameroon, the latest assault by the Islamist extremist group in African Union countries cooperating against the jihadi group's war to install sharia law throughout West Africa.
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Islamic Autocracies Turn Blind Eye to Mideast Refugees While Fueling Islamist Extremism
September 09, 2015
Data show that the wealthiest of the Islamic oil regimes, while funding extremist Islamist groups abroad and violating human rights at home, have refused to provide haven to a single refugee from Iraq and Syria, and instead have been quick to blame Western countries for rigid refugee and asylum policies responding to what amounts to Islam's wars of religion in the Mideast.
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Refugee Crisis Highlights European Hypocrisy on Humanitarian Catastrophe in Mideast and North Africa
September 09, 2015
The urgent refugee crisis spreading across EU member states, provoked by radical Islamist violence against states and civilians in the Mideast and North Africa ("MENA"), has provoked cries about Europe's hypocrisy in failing to both respond to the human security needs of MENA countries and to live up to the human rights discourse on which the EU project is premised.