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OIC Raises Turkey's Profile as Geopolitical Islamist Center
June 26, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") underscored the importance of Turkey as a geopolitical pivot for the work of the global, multilateral OIC, identifying Istanbul as the "Islamic World Youth Capital" and host for the OIC Youth Summit in 2016.
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British Muslim Leaders Criticize Government's Focus on Values to Counter Homegrown Islamist Extremism
June 26, 2015
The British government's emphasis on public education as the optimal method for building British values that counter homegrown jihadist recruiting for violent Islamist causes has provoked accusations of "identityand religious engineering" by several well-known Muslim leaders in Britain.
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Islamist Extremists Suspected in Gruesome Terror Attack in France
June 26, 2015
France remains on high alert and a suspect with known ties to violent Islamist extremists has been detained in the wake of a gruesome car-suicide terror attack on a US-affiliated Lyon factory, where police recovered a victim's decapitated head with Arabic script.
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Islamist Extremist Groups Figure Prominently as Perpetrators in State Department Terrorism Report
June 24, 2015
The US State Department's newly released Annual Report on Terrorism reflects the overwhelming impact of Islamist extremist groups, headlined by the Islamic State ("IS") as the "self-styled leader of a global movement" aiming to expand the group's caliphate, as perpetrators of violent terror attacks that killed nearly 33,000 people in 2014 alone.
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Taliban Attack Afghan Parliament in Ongoing Operations for Retaking Control of Country
June 24, 2015
Taliban fighters launched a series of assaults on Afghanistan's Parliament building at the moment when the country's new Defense Minister was about to take his oath of office, a brazen assault signalling the Islamist fundamentalist group's ongoing operations to retake control of the country and to make Afghanistan into a sharia state.
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