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Islamic State Expands Caliphate Footprint
August 10, 2015
The forces of the Islamic State ("IS") captured a strategic town in southwest Syria, thereby enhancing the jihadis' operational capabilities and expanding the territorial footprint of their caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
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Taliban Attacks Follow New Leader's Declaration of Islamic Holy War
August 10, 2015
Afghanistan's capital endured a wave of suicide bombing attacks by the Taliban, signaling the group's new leadership's commitment to renewed Islamic holy war to impose sharia law throughout the country.
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Islamist Militants Murder Another Secularist Blogger in Bangladesh
August 10, 2015
Islamist militants in Bangladesh used machetes to hack to death a fourth blogger this year, in a series of killings justified by Islamists as punishment for the bloggers' secularist views and defense of the rights of women and religious and social minorities.
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OIC Sends Mixed Messages in Call for Islamic Human Rights
August 07, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's ("OIC") Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission ("IPHRC") issued an official statement on "Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Day," sending mixed messages in the call for OIC member-states to commit to metrics for the realization of "Islamic human rights," while simultaneously trying to harmonize national laws with universal human rights covenants.
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Britain's New Policy to Counter Radical Islamism May Improve by Learning from US
August 07, 2015
Britain's new policy for countering radical Islamism by focusing on the prevention of "non-violent extremists" is generating a debate among security experts about possible blowback, with suggestions that the US practice of outreach to domestic Muslim communities may be more efficacious.
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