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Islamic State Cultural Cleansing in Iraq Includes Libraries
August 06, 2015
The Islamic State's ("IS") violent campaign to impose a caliphate in Iraq and Syria has involved cultural cleansing through destruction of sites and libraries, so officials at the Baghdad National Library are accelerating the digitization of the massive collection to protect a millennium of historical materials.
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Saudi Arabia Sustains Global Pressure to Criminalize Free Speech According to Islamist Norms
August 04, 2015
The Director of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, whose mandate is the global "propagation of Islam," renewed the call by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") in international and multilateral fora for the criminalization of free speech that is considered blasphemous and a violation of Muslims' "religious and ideological rights."
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OIC Continues Push to Mainstream Islamic Finance
August 03, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), the global, multilateral organization whose charter identifies it as the protector of the world's Muslims, continues to use its various institutional platforms to push for the financial mainstreaming of the "moral economy" and "sustainable-growth-and-development" advantages of sharia economics and finance.
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US-Egypt Diplomacy Highlights Complexities in Countering Violent Islamism
August 03, 2015
The recent meetings between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterpart in Egypt focused on how to help the Cairo government balance robust human-rights practices against the need for proactive security measures to effectively combat the spread of extremist Islamist ideas and violence in the critical territory of the Sinai Peninsula.
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Radical Islamists Raise Profile in China
August 03, 2015
The activism of radical Islamists committed to sharia and jihad in Central China continues to intensify, evidenced in the public congratulations by the Turkistan Islamic Party, a jihadi group claiming to protect the rights of China's Uighur Muslims, to al-Shabaab for its recent Islamist terror attack that damaged China's Embassy in Somalia.
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