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Pakistan's Islamic Conservatives Block Bill to Criminalize Wife-Beating
July 19, 2021
Conservative Islamic clerics and societal groups in Pakistan have succeeded in pressuring the country's Parliament to revise the proposed Domestic Violence (Protection and Prevention) Bill 2021, which criminalizes domestic violence against women and girls, with opponents claiming that the proposed legislation controvenes Quranic permissions for "light" wife-beating.
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Jihadist Radicalization & Recruitment via Internet
July 16, 2021
The success of Islamist extremist groups in virtual radicalization and recruitment has been facilitated by the combined use of hard and soft platforms, with the former marked by higher barriers to entry to terrorist operational infrastructures and the latter offering a “friendly” access to social media sites that are useful forl the ideological radicalization that is the gateway to terrorism.
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Islamist Regimes Collude in Trading POW Returns for Military Information
July 16, 2021
The Islamist regimes of Azerbaijan and Turkey are colluding in trading Armenian POWs from the recent Azerbaijan-Armenia war in Nagorno-Karabakh in exchange for minefield maps from Armenia, with the wife of Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, caught on video telling the Azeri president not to return the POWs until the mine information is provided.
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UAE Hosts OIC Science & Technology Summit
July 14, 2021
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) second Islamic Summit on Science and Technology, which highlighted advancements in the 57 member-states, but pushed for more active progress on scientific and technological education and innovation on core issues of climate change and food security.
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Italy Arrests of IS Funders Indicates Extensive Islamist Terror Network
July 14, 2021
Italian state officials’ arrest of four individuals charged with funds collections and transfers to IS militants in countries such as Germany, Jordan, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, and Russia, points to the robust, extensive Islamist terror financing networks operating across Eurasia.