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Turkish-Backed Islamist Militias Kidnap Christian Converts in Northern Syria
August 26, 2020
Turkish-backed militias in the northern Syria region of Afrin, heavily comprised of former IS and Al Qaeda fighters, recently kidnapped 14 Kurdish converts to Christianity, exacerbating the flight of Christians from the region and intensifying the use of kidnappings, ransoms, and apostasy as an Islamist weapon against non-Muslims under the control of Syria's pro-Turkish Islamist militias.
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Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique Advances in Battle to Capture Natural Gas Resources
August 26, 2020
Mozambique's homegrown Islamist movement, Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama ("Supporters of Tradition"), is making steady military and societal headway in the insurgency to capture control of the East African country's rich natural gas resources and economic future.
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Al-Azhar Pressure Forces Egyptian Parliament to Table Bill to Shift Control over Islam to State
August 26, 2020
Egypt's Parliament buckled under pressure from the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, who challenged new legislation aimed at shifting control over religious affairs for the country's Sunni-Muslim majority to the State by curtailing the expansive financial, legal, and social powers of the global center of Islamic learning.
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Countering Violent Extremism Programs in Pakistan Need Overhaul
August 26, 2020
Despite two decades of support by US government agencies and local partners for CVE (countering violent extremism) programming to counter radical Islamist ideology and violence in Pakistan, a new report from the US National Defense University's Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies indicates strong resistance from Pakistani religious groups and state agencies and no measurable improvement.
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US Justice Dept. Charges Three Men in Illegal Funds Scheme for Iran's Regime Leadership
August 24, 2020
Iran's chief Islamic cleric and political leader, as well as the regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are implicated in an illegal currency transfer scheme from the US to Iran, revealed in the US Justice Department's recent charges against two US citizens and a Pakistani citizen.
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