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Ukraine's Turn to Islamist Militants in Fight with Russia Could Cause Threat to West
July 16, 2015
The presence of Islamic Battalions fighting by invitation with Ukrainian forces against Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine may present a longer term threat to Western strategic interests in the Black Sea area, since the militant Islamist fighters from Chechnya are committed to establishment of sharia law.
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Pakistan's Draconian Blasphemy Laws Used for Social Control
July 16, 2015
The six-plus-year imprisonment of Asia Bibi, a prisoner of conscience accused of blasphemy against Islam for allegedly drinking out a Muslim's bowl, underscores the continuing use of draconian Islamic blasphemy laws by the Pakistan government for purposes of social control and religious monism.
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Muslim Brotherhood Leadership Debates Strategies of Violence
July 15, 2015
The leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") has intensified debates about the organization's use of various types of violence, including jihadi-style terror attacks and "smart violence" against governed and security targets, as part of the MB's goal of overthrowing the current government in Cairo.
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Turkey Battles Islamists in Court over Religious Education
July 15, 2015
The ongoing struggle for Islamist hegemony between Turkey's AKP, the authoritarian Islamist party led by the country's President, and the global grassroots Islamist "Hizmet" movement led by US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, is being played out in Turkey's courts, which recently ruled that the vast network of Gulenist parochial middle and high schools could continue to operate in Turkey.
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Islamist Extremism Spreading in Sweden's Suburbs
July 14, 2015
Swedish media, civic groups, and government officials are expressing more publicly the degree of concern regarding policies to counter the creeping expansion of radical Islamist ideas, illegal activities related to Islamist terrorism, and jihadi recruiting patterns in the country's suburban mosques, schools, and press.
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