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Turkey's Toleration of Salafists and Jihadis Causing Domestic Instability
August 13, 2014
Turkish human rights organizations and media outlets are reporting that the AKP Islamist government's policy of giving comfort to IS (Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants has led to rising trends of domestic sectarianism and violence led by jihadi salafists.
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Radical Indonesian Cleric Declares Support for New Islamic Caliphate in Mideast
August 13, 2014
Abu Bakar Bashir, a militant Islamic cleric jailed by the Jakarta government for terrorist activities in Indonesia, declared through the radical organization Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (“JAT”), that he endorses the jihadist caliphate, The Islamic State, proclaimed recently in the Mideast.
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Chinese Muslims Call on OIC to Follow Turkey's Lead in Supporting Islamist Separatism
August 13, 2014
The World Uighur Congress has called on international organizations such as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), the European Union (“EU”), and the UN to reinforce and support Turkey's demands for an independent inquiry into China's treatment of its Uighur Muslim population and to accept Turkey's claims that it has responsibility for what it calls the state of Eastern Turkistan, the region in China where Uighur/Turkic Muslims are concentrated.
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Jihadists Erasing Christian Presence in Middle East
August 13, 2014
The assault against the ancient Christian populations of the Middle East by Islamist jihadists –first, as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) and, now, as the expanding territorial caliphate of The Islamic State – goes beyond murders and expulsions of Christians, as profiteers have begun plundering and black-market profiteering of ancient Christian artifacts and texts.
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Saudi Arabia to Host OIC Foreign Ministers Emergency Meeting on Gaza
August 11, 2014
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs will chair tomorrow's emergency meeting in Jeddah of Foreign Ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") member-states, where the agenda will include OIC humanitarian assistance to Gaza, as well as possible responses to address widespread popular dissatisfaction in member-states that have criticized the OIC for adopting an anodyne position on the Gaza crisis.
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