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OIC Chief Supports Russia over U.S. in Mideast Peace Role
March 04, 2015
Visiting Moscow to meet with Russia's Foreign Minister, the Secretary General of the global-multilateral Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") lauded Russia as an effective leader for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and criticized the United States as an ineffective mediator in resolving the longstanding Mideast problem.
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Bangladesh Islamists Use Blasphemy Bogey to Incite Murder of American Blogger
March 04, 2015
An American blogger was hacked to death as a blasphemer in Bangladesh's capital city, incited by the intensifying climate of impunity fostered by calls from the country's Islamist groups for public execution as punishment for free speech deemed critical of Islam.
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Islamic State Continues Targeting Christians with New Hostages in Syria
February 25, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") continues to target Christians for persecution, kidnap ransom, and death, following last week's mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christians with this week's kidnapping of 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria.
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Islamist Fighters Returning to Europe Pose Societal and Security Problems
February 25, 2015
With approximately 20-30% of Europe's estimated 4000 jihadi fighters already returning home from Syria and Iraq, European policymakers now face challenges in finding durable solutions for those returnees, who are a weight on penal systems and a potential security threat due to social fragmentation and Islamist radicalization.
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Boko Haram Regionalizes Sharia Push and Jihadi Collaborations in Africa
February 25, 2015
The past two weeks have seen a string of suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks indicating that the hardline Islamist extremist group Boko Haram is expanding beyond its goal of making Nigeria into a sharia state, to a regional jihadi strategy built on collaboration with the Islamic State ("IS") and aiming at establishment of sharia rule across sub-Saharan Africa.
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