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Morocco to Host Emergency OIC Summit on Palestine
August 31, 2015
The government of Morocco has condemned Israel's "Judaization policies in Jerusalem" and will host an upcoming emergency summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") for coordinated action to respond to "Israel's settlement policies in Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian Territories."
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OIC Condemns Islamist Destruction of World Heritage Sites as Contrary to Islamic Tolerance
August 31, 2015
The Saudi Secretary General of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") issued an official condemnation of the most recent episodes of destruction of Syria's non-Muslim cultural and religious monuments by Islamic State ("IS") militias, characterizing IS's actions as incompatible with international norms and a "divergence from Islam's values and principles of non-discrimination across racial and ethnic groups."
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Thwarted French Train Attack Points to Challenges in Understanding Tipping Points in Islamist Radicalization
August 31, 2015
Information released by Spain's intelligence agencies about the Moroccan origins and Islamist mosque visits of the perpetrator in last week's attempted terrorist attack on a French train underscores the threat assessment challenges involved in analyzing the causal connections between criminalization, socioeconomic marginalization, and radicalization amongst Spain's Muslim communities.
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Distinction Between Islam and Islamism Is More than Dispute over Terms
August 31, 2015
The distinctions between Islam as a body of religious beliefs and practices versus Islamism as an ideology of political mobilization and organization has crucial policy implications for differentiating the contemporary globalization of Islamist violent extremism from the faith commitments of those who identify as Muslims.
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IS Child Brutality Aims to Make Child Jihadis
August 31, 2015
Reports from survivors and eyewitnesses are describing the Islamic State's ("IS") systematic use of torture, amputations, and brainwashing to forcibly conscript young boys in Syria and Iraq into an army of child jihadis committed to "true Islam."
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