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Islamic Solidarity Fund Linked to OIC Influence Networks
February 19, 2021
The Islamic Solidarity Fund (ISF), a subsidiary organ of the global, multilateral Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is financing new development projects in six member-states, five in Africa and one in the Mideast, expanding the OIC’s transcontinental influence and integration impacts in educational, cultural, and economic sectors.
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Pakistan PM: Islam a Religion of Peace
February 19, 2021
Pakistan Today reports that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan called on the country’s Islamic clerics and legal scholars to become active in combatting islamophobia in Western countries that don’t recognize that “Islam as a religion of peace”.
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BBC: Pandemic Helps IS Resurgence in NE Syria
February 15, 2021
IS militants, who reconstituted their forces underground, are making gains towards the goal of recapturing control in northeast Syria, expanding practices of beheadings, kidnaps for ransom, and suicide bombings, following the ejection of Syrian government and Kurdish resistance forces as well as local police’s focus on pandemic security priorities.
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Experts Brief UN Security Council on Potential Islamist Attacks in COVID Context
February 15, 2021
ABC News reports that a a panel of security experts briefed the UN Security Council on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the threat of violent Islamism, with empirical evidence showing how redirection of law enforcement resources towards pandemic management actually created permissive conditions for Islamist extremism in already existing conflict zones.
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Death Sentence for Murder of Bloggers by Islamists in Bangledesh
February 15, 2021
AP news reports that Bangladesh's Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal meted out the death sentence to eight Islamist extremists convicted for a murder spree that saw publishers and bloggers hacked to death because of ideas deemed anti-Islamic by the local IS militants.
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