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Beheading of French Teacher Highlights "Cyber-Islamism" as a Problem
October 21, 2020
Due to the role that social media may have played leading up to the beheading of a French middle school teacher by a Chechen Islamist for using cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammed in a classroom discussion about free speech, French state authorities met with global social media company representatives to address the problem of "cyber-Islamism," which enables Islamist propaganda to be deployed on social media in order to incite violence.
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Hamill-Stewart: Iran's Islamic Theocracy Intensifies Repression & Executions in Response to Pressures of COVID-19 & Economic Decline
October 19, 2020
Writing in Arab News, Christopher Hamill-Stewart explains that Iran's Islamic theocratic regime is responding to growing popular unrest due to their failure to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse with intensified repression of human rights, including arrests, executions, and torture of dissidents opposed to the Islamist regime.
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Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti Emphasizes Jihad in Wake of UAE-Bahrain-Israel Normalization
October 19, 2020
Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti has responded to the normalization in relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Israel by calling in the two Muslim-majority countries to remember the obligation jihad against Israel, arguing that Islamic legal texts lead to no other conclusion than the need to “fight against the thieving Jews” for their theft of demand that Israel’s theft of Islamic lands.
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Joscelyn: U.S. Afghanistan Departure Gives Rise to Taliban and Al-Qaeda Global Jihads
October 19, 2020
According to Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Fellow and Senior Editor of Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Long War Journal, following the departure of U.S. operations after two decades, Afghanistan has become a base for the Taliban and al-Qaeda, who are working together using the South Asian country as a base for funding and coordination of international jihadists operations.
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Taliban Expand Islamist Radical Influence in Afghanistan in Aftermath of Doha Peace Deal
October 14, 2020
In the wake of their peace negotiations with the government of Afghanistan and the US military, the Islamist jihadi Taliban have intensified its offensive actions, intimidation campaigns, and overall low-level use of violence in the southeastern part of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan.
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Swiss Hostage Killed by Jihadist Coalition in Mali
October 14, 2020
The Swiss Foreign Ministry announced the murder of one of its citizens held hostage for four years by a coalition of Islamist extremist groups active in Mali, an update that came only hours following the release by the same West African jihadist coalition of a French aid worker and two Italian hostages.
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IS Uses Social Media to Urge Followers to Kidnap US Politicians & Celebrities
October 13, 2020
IS is using the Telegram platform to call on its followers to kidnap high-profile American politicians and celebrities and their children, to be held as hostages to exchange for an al-Qaeda-affiliated Pakistan woman currently under US custody for attempted murder of American military personnel.
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Expanding Jihadism in Mozambique Generates Human, Energy, and Security Costs
October 09, 2020
The expanding jihadist insurgency in the East African country of Mozambique has generated hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons and increasing civilian casualties, weakening the security environment in the fragile state and putting at risk the potential energy dividends related to the country's huge natural gas reserves.
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Turkey Expands Islamist Geopolitics to Target Israel
October 06, 2020
Turkey's Islamist President Erdogan has laid out the NATO member's geopolitical revisionist ambitions towards Israel, declaring Jerusalem a city whose al-Aqsa Mosque, located in the shared space with the Jewish Temple Mount, must be liberated by Turkey.
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West Point Report Reveals Details of IS Recruitment Tactics
September 30, 2020
The Combatting Terrorism Center of the US Military Academy at West Point released an analysis of key Tactical Interrogation Reports of the current leader of the Islamic State, offering important details about his radicalization-and-recruitment narrative.