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Indonesia Bans Islamic Defenders Front
January 06, 2021
The government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim--majority country, has outlawed the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a radical organization using violent tactics to target religious minorities and impose an austere interpretation of Islam, after the FPI's leader recently called for a "moral revolution" against the government.
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Pakistan's Religious Freedom Violations Target Minority Girls
January 06, 2021
Snopes reports that the sharia laws defining Pakistan's Islamic Republic have created systemic religious freedom violations for the country's religious minority communities, in particular for underage girls, who are regularly raped, abducted, sold for marriage, and undergo forced conversion to Islam.
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Egyptian Court Acquits Attackers of Elderly Coptic Woman
December 30, 2020
Al-Monitor reports that Egyptian courts have acquitted three perpetrators who confessed to stripping naked and dragging an elderly Coptic Christian women through city streets because of rumors that her son had an affair with a Muslim woman.
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Police Arrest Machete-Wielding AQ Supporter in Spain
December 30, 2020
Spanish police arrested a machete-wielding attacker with Al Qaeda (AQ) connections in Castellon, the capital city of provincial Valencia, which has a history of ties to AQ terrorists and foreign fighters.
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Jihadists Aim to Capture Energy Assets in Latest Attack in Mozambique
December 30, 2020
Islamist militants in Mozambique continue their campaign to transform the energy rich country into a sharia state by organizing a targeted attack on the multi-billion dollar natural gas project funded by French energy company, Total.