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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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Saudi Arabia Attempts Rebrand of Wahhabi Extremism
February 15, 2021
The blog Mideastsoccer writes that Saudi Arabia’s political leadership has launched a series of actions designed to appeal to Western state leaders and investors critical of the country’s poor human rights record, including the removal of anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-Shiite hate speech, while maintaining the restriction of non-Muslim houses of worship and arbitrary arrests.
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Pakistan Released US Journalist's Killers
February 15, 2021
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled in favor of acquitting and releasing all four Islamist militants accused of the 2002 killing and beheading of US Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, in a move underscoring Pakistan's permissive environment for Islamist terrorism.
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US Treasury-Defense Update Reveals Key Facilitators of Global Islamist Terrorism
February 15, 2021
The US Treasury Department's recent update to the US Department of Defense on international terrorist financing and operations identifies Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey as key facilitators of global Islamist financing, extremism, and violence.
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Italy’s Counter-Terrorism Prevention Against Islamist Extremism
February 15, 2021
Globalriskinsights.com reports that in order to combat Jihadism in Italy, security forces are retooling approaches that were once used to combat mafia corruption and leftist ideological terrorism.