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                                          OIC Youth Forum Says Radical Groups Misuse Name of IslamOctober 17, 2014The 57-member-state Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (“OIC”) Annual Youth Forum met in Turkey, where the group's leadership called on global Muslim youth "to deny the so-called radicals and poppy groups who hurt the image of Islam and misuse it." 
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                                          Tunisian Islamists Declare Willingness for Coalition GovernmentOctober 17, 2014The leadership of Tunisia's Islamist Party, Ennahda, has declared its willingness to cooperate in a coalition government with non-Islamist parties, as the country's still-fragile democratization process plays out with upcoming legislative elections. 
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                                          Jihadi Islamists Increase Attacks in West AfricaOctober 17, 2014A jihadi Islamist group known as The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa has been ratcheting up attacks on United Nations Peacekeepers and civilians in Mali and its West African neighboring countries. 
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                                          American Jihadist Discusses Support for Radical IslamismOctober 17, 2014A Somali American who joined Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda franchise fighting against the Syria regime of Bashar al Assad, told a CBS news interviewer why he supports militant Islamism in its battle against the United States. 
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                                          Turkey's Ultimatum to U.S. and NATO on Syrian Town of Kobani Besieged by Islamic State FightersOctober 17, 2014The government of Turkey has given the United States and NATO an ultimatum: either declare the ouster of Syrian President Assad as NATO’s main priority or Turkey will continue to refuse to support undermanned Kurdish and Arab forces and civilians battling Islamic State forces in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani. 
