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Turkish Government Manipulates Islamism to Stifle Press Freedoms
September 02, 2015
Turkish courts ordered the arrest of three British journalists for abetting terrorism after they began reporting on Turkish security forces' clashes with the youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party ("PKK"), pointing to the Islamist government's opportunism in shifting its pro-Islamic State ("IS") stance in order to suppress freedom of expression on the issue of Kurdish rights.
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Islamic State Continues Cultural and Religious Cleansing of Syrian Sites
September 02, 2015
UN satellite imagery has confirmed that Islamic State ("IS") forces continued their cleansing rampage against Syria's religious and cultural antiquities, with the destruction of the 1st-century Roman Temple of Bel in the captured city of Palmyra the latest episode in IS's use of antiquities eradication, looting, and black-marketeering to support the expansion of the radical Islamist caliphate.
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Violence and Discrimination Against Non-Muslim Citizens Reflects Islamization of Pakistani State and Society
September 02, 2015
Pakistani state officials are increasingly supportive of radical Islamist groups and ideology committed to both the domestic application of sharia law and a jihadist foreign policy, as evidenced in the intensification of violent assaults and discrimination with impunity against Pakistan's non-Muslim minority citizens.
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Boko Haram Pushes Caliphate War Toward Nigeria's Capital
August 31, 2015
In the wake of another lethal attack against civilian villagers in the Nigerian southern region by Boko Haram in its war to impose sharia law throughout the country, Nigerian government officials are warning that the Islamist extremist group, which has pledged allegiance to the caliphate of the Islamic State ("IS"), is beginning a push toward the country's capital.
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Architect of IS Suicide Bombings Warns of Expanding Caliphate
August 31, 2015
The now-imprisoned mastermind of the Islamic State's ("IS") unrelenting campaign of suicide bombers in Iraq's capital of Baghdad warned in an interview with British media that the globalization of the Islamic caliphate "is coming" and that the last year's advances of IS cannot be undone because "the caliphate is a reality.”
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