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Pakistani Courts Validate Forced Marriage of Abducted Christian Girl
February 14, 2020
The forced marriage of a 14-year-old Christian girl abducted by a Pakistani adult male was deemed valid by the local judiciary in one of the country’s largest cities, on the basis of conformity with sharia law.
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Coptic Christian Women Use Courts to Fight Gender Discrimination of Islamic Inheritance Laws
February 11, 2020
Coptic Orthodox Christian women are gaining momentum in their sustained fight against Islamic inheritance laws that discriminate against women, with a series of local court victories creating opportunities for passage of a unified family code that would overcome systemic legal discrimination against women based in Islamic jurisprudence.
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Chinese New Year Celebration Highlights Growing Strength of Islamists among Malaysia’s Muslim Population
February 11, 2020
Malaysia’s state religious authority censured a group of local mosques for permitting Chinese New Year’s celebrations as a “sign of disrespect” to the country’s Muslim population, a signal of the growing strength of conservative Islamists in the ethnically and religiously diverse East Asian nation.
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Lewis: British Authorities Struggle with Islamist Deradicalization Programs
February 11, 2020
The recent spate of violence in Britain by Islamists released after supposedly successful completion of the country’s prison deradicalization programs is drawing security officials’ renewed attention to the failures to understand the societal and mental health drivers of, and possible solutions to, Islamist radicalization.
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Domestic and Foreign Policy Problems Encourage Reformists to Critique Iran's Islamist Hardliners
February 05, 2020
Iran's protracted economic crisis and escalating foreign-policy hostilities with the United States have catalyzed calls by reformist currents in both civil society and the Islamist clerical establishment for the resignation of the country's president and a critique of the political and economic mismanagement of the "deep state" Islamist and military hardliners who dominate the regime.
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U.S.-Designated Terrorist Group Hezbollah Is Kingmaker in New Lebanese Government with Weak Popular Legitimacy
February 05, 2020
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed, Shiite extremist group has emerged as the kingmaker in the new Lebanese government formed after two-plus months of popular protests against endemic political corruption and protracted economic crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean country.
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EU Study Raises Concerns about Outcomes of Political Islamism in Turkey
February 05, 2020
According to an EU Horizon 2020 project report, the consolidation of political Islamism in Turkey has correlated with a decline in educational standards, a youth “brain drain” from the country, rising levels of economic corruption based on patronage networks, increased violence against women, and a turn towards political authoritarianism.
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New Book Details the Two Islamic Revolutions that Globalized Islamist Radicalism and Weaponized Islamic Sectarianism
February 05, 2020
A new book by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist Kim Ghattas describes how the twin 1979 Islamist revolutions that occurred in Iran and Saudi Arabia generated a new paradigm of globalized Islamist radicalism and of weaponized Islamic sectarianism.
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Iran-Iraq Shiite Religious Leadership United in Protection and Promotion of Shiite Expansion
February 05, 2020
In a Foreign Policy article, expert analysts from the London-based Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies explain that, contrary to the hope of U.S. leaders, communications between Iraq's Grand Aytaollah Ali al-Sistani and Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are united in their protection and promotion of Shiite expansion, in the Mideast and beyond.
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Turkey Uses Soft Power of Islamist Monies and Propaganda to Penetrate US
February 05, 2020
Turkey’s Islamist authoritarian government is using Islamism as a soft power tool to penetrate the United States, exposed in the recent UN flagging of money transfers from scandal-ridden Turkish government foundations to a U.S.-based Turkish Islamist entity focused on influence-building among young American Muslims.
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