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OIC Foreign Ministers Meet in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Islamic Strategy
July 11, 2014
Foreign Ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) are gearing up to meet in Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of unprecedented, globalized Islamist violence and are planning to discuss strategic issues in conflict zones involving Muslims.
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Azerbaijan Taking Lead in OIC-UN Interface on Global Islamic Labor Policies
July 11, 2014
Azerbaijan will host the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (“OIC”) labor summit, to review the OIC framework for labor and employment protections and to discuss OIC priorities with the UN International Labor Organization.
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Internecine Islamist Struggle in Turkey
July 11, 2014
The struggle between Turkey's competing Islamist factions – the government's Justice and Development Party and the international Gulenist network – are producing continuing chaos in the country's political and social institutions, given wholesale purges of the police, judiciary, and media in Turkey.
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Boko Haram's Islamist Terror in Nigeria Creating Cycles of Refugees and Human Trafficking
July 11, 2014
Boko Haram's campaign to use violence to bring about a sharia state in Nigeria has morphed from a homegrown terror movement into a regional problem creating refugee flows, human trafficking of women, and girls kidnapped by the Islamist terror group.
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OIC Brokering Saudi-Iran Rapprochement
July 11, 2014
The leadership of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) is moving actively to position the global Islamic organization as a forum for rapprochement between Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia and Shiite leader Iran.