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Islamist Knife Attack Kills Three at French Basilica in Nice
November 02, 2020
France's security officials are treating the killing of three people by a Tunisian undocumented immigrant in a knife attack at the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice as an Islamist terrorist episode, based on the escalating cycle of violence related to the Charlie Hebdo satirical cartoons condemned as blasphemous by Muslim-majority countries worldwide.
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Mauritania's Courts Impose Fines & Prison Sentences Under Islamic Blasphemy Laws
October 28, 2020
As Mauritania's legal mechanisms shut down civil and political liberties in the West African Islamic republic, eight individuals were found guilty under the country's sharia-based blasphemy laws, imposing fines and prison sentences.
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Turkey Pushes Neo-Ottomanist Foreign Policy in Jerusalem
October 28, 2020
Turkey's President is pushing its neo-Ottomanist foreign policy and Muslim world leadership aspirations to Jerusalem, using a combination of Islamist and nationalist rhetoric to claim Turkey's rights as a custodian over Temple Mount and Al Aqsa mosque.
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French Council of the Muslim Faith Affirms Freedom of Speech in Wake of Cartoon Controversy and Beheading
October 28, 2020
The leader of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (FCMF) publicly declared that press and speech freedoms in France extend to both the media who publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and those people who denounce the cartoons
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Seven Charged in Beheading of French Teacher
October 28, 2020
French authorities arrested seven individuals on terrorism charges associated with last week's beheading of a Paris middle school teacher, who believed they were acting upon an Islamist "fatwa", or legal ruling, for blasphemy by the teacher for showing images of Islam's Prophet Mohammed to his students.
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