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Iran Plans Increased Trade Ties with OIC Countries When Sanctions End
July 02, 2015
Iran's finance and trade officials are planning for a major expansion of the country's global trade and finance activities after easing of sanctions at the conclusion of the international nuclear negotiations, based on a major increase in Iran's shareholder status in the International Islamic Trade Finance Corp ("ITFC") of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC").
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OIC Pushed US to Blame Benghazi Assault on "Anti-Muslim Speech"
July 01, 2015
Recently released documents show that the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") urged the White House and US State Department to blame the fatal Islamist assault on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya on anti-Muslim speech and images and to impose free speech limitations in the US.
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American Youth Are the Object of IS and al-Qaeda Recruitment Strategies
July 01, 2015
The story of a young American woman reveals a deeper picture of the relentless, sophisticated, systematic use of multiple forms of social media, by both the Islamic State ("IS") and al-Qaeda, to propagandize American youth to Islamist ideologies and to recruit that demographic for participation in Islamist violence.
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Jihadis Use Divide and Conquer Strategy in Regaining Territory in Syria and Iraq
July 01, 2015
Committing mass civilian atrocities in the Syrian border town of Kobani, Islamic State ("IS") militias are using a strategy of divide and conquer, posing as either Syrian opposition forces or Kurdish peshmerga, in order to recapture lost territory by breaking the unified coalition of anti-Islamist-extremist forces comprised of units from the Free Syrian Army and the Kurdish People's Defense Forces.
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Sharpening Hindu Nationalism Risks Islamist Blowback from Country's Muslims
July 01, 2015
The intensification of exclusivist Hindu nationalist policies in India since last year's election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party ("BJP") is raising fears of discrimination and safety among the country's Muslim population, with India experts warning of potential blowback in the form of Islamist appeals to the country with the world's second largest Muslim population.
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