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Indonesia’s Islamist Groups Adopt Policies Advocated by Banned Extremists
June 17, 2021
Indonesia’s government has banned several Islamist extremist groups who used violence to push for a sharia state, but mainstream Islamist groups are adopting non-violent, softer versions of the same policies, which aim to force these policies on society according to sharia principles which discriminate against non-confirming Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities.
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Mafia Boss Reveals Criminality of Turkey’s Islamist Regime
June 17, 2021
A series of social media videos by Turkey's most infamous mob boss has pointed to the expansive criminality of Turkey’s ruling Islamist regime, with revelations of government-involved narcotics trafficking, weapons transfers to jihadist groups, and targeted assassinations of political opponents.
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Afghan Taliban Builds Networks with Central Asian Jihadists
June 17, 2021
The Afghan Taliban are using public ideological statements and operational networks of cooperation with salafi-jihadist groups across Central Asia, China, and Russia, in order to pressure Central Asian states to reject US efforts to secure basing rights for air support to the Afghan government in the wake of American forces’ withdrawal.
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Open Democracy: Iran’s Islamic Regime Continues Cover-Up of 1988 Massacre
June 15, 2021
Leaders of Iran’s Islamist regime have begun bulldozing the country’s most infamous mass grave as part of the ongoing coverup to destroy evidence from the 1988 execution of thousands of political prisoners condemned by Ayatollah Khomeini, a move prompting more than 150 global human rights experts to call on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish a Commission of Inquiry into what are known as Iran’s Death Committees.
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Expanding Jihadism in African Sahel Causes Security Threat
June 15, 2021
The expansion and multiplication across Africa’s five-country Sahel region has proven impervious to the combined counterterrorism efforts of the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSA), the G5 Sahel Force, and the French and EU missions, raising the stakes for a renewed security response to confront Africa-based Islamist extremism, including massive refugee flows into Europe.
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