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IS Pakistan Branch Takes Aim at State as "Cancer State in Islam" in Propaganda Magazine
February 18, 2023
The main propaganda magazine of the Islamic State - Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Pakistani branch of the IS, has condemned the state establishment as a "cancer state in Islam" and as a geopolitical pawn of the United States, promising to wage continuous jihad against both, in a move that signals the group's ongoing push to marginalize the local Taliban and, therefore, to secure hegemonic status as the only authentic Islamist voice in the South Asia state.
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Paris Rally Calls on EU to List Iran’s IRGC as Terror Group
February 15, 2023
A massive rally by Iranian-Europeans was held in Paris this last weekend, in a call for European Union (EU) officials to add Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the EU terror list, with protestors condemning the IRGC as perpetrators of widespread human rights crimes and also urging a decisive expansion of the European sanctions list and suspension of diplomatic relations with the Islamic theocratic regime.
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Islamic State Militants Conrinue Killing & Kidnapping in Syria
February 15, 2023
Islamic State (IS) extremists remain an active threat in Syria, with IS militants continuing to kill and kidnap civilians, most recently with 11 deaths and 64 abductions perpetrated in the ancient city of Palmyra, according to data from the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
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Pressures Grow for Islamist Autocrats to Support Islamic Legal Reform
February 15, 2023
A spate of journalists and opinion makers in Saudi Arabia has begun to exert public pressure on the country’s Islamist auotocratic leadership whose grip on power has long depended on fundamentalist Islamic jurisprudence, with critics and changemakers in Saudi Arabia, viewed as the worldwide center of Islamic orthodoxy, echoing the move by Indonesia’s massive Islamic civil society movement Nahdlatul Ulama to condemn the Afghan Taliban’s totalitarian repression of women by using sharia justifications and to call for reforms of Islamic law that continue to be instrumentalized for dictatorial Islamist rule and jihadist violence.
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Indonesia’s Largest Islamist Movement Rejects Caliphate
February 13, 2023
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama (ND, Revival of Islamic Scholars) issued a public challenge to the world’s leading religious experts, scholars, and organizations of Islam to undertake foundational reforms in Islamic jurisprudence, including a rejection of universal caliphate as a necessary system of governance, revision of social laws and human rights practices in order to conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and endorsement of ND’s jurisprudential concept of “Humanitarian Islam” that accepts and engages non-violently in the world’s reality of religious pluralism.
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