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Pakistan Officials Fuel Islamist Violence by Sunni Muslim Majority Against Hazaara Shiite Minority for Spreading COVID-19
April 06, 2020
As Pakistan authorities accuse the country's Hazaara Shiite minority of spreading the COVID-19 virus, members of the country's Sunni Muslim majority are targeting them for violence as the source of the "Shiite contagion."
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Canadian Woman Lured by IS to Syria Details Jihadist Recruiting Strategy
April 01, 2020
A Canadian woman supporter of IS who is now seeking repatriation from a detention camp in Syria details the combination of sophisticated recruiting and brutal repression used by jihadists to enmesh Western women in the jihadist project.
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Indonesia's Islamic Sects Advocate Niqab Coverings for All Women
April 01, 2020
The range of born-again Islamic sects across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, are promoting the full-body-full-face covering of all women under the niqab, a practice that has raised concerns among the country's political democratizers as a sign of growing social pressure by hardline Islamists.
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Nordic Monitor: Coronavirus Pandemic Fuels Hate Speech in Turkey
April 01, 2020
According to the Nordic Monitor, the coronavirus pandemic has fueled hate and xenophobic speech in the predominantly pro-government Turkish media, which accuses the usually targeted groups and countries including Jews, the Gülen movement and the West of being the source of COVID-19 and spreading the virus among Turkish society.
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Jihadist War in West Africa Intensifies as Boko Haram Perpetrates Mass Casualties at Chad Military Base
March 25, 2020
Militants part of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram perpetrated a mass-casualty attack on a military base in the neighboring West African country of Chad, signaling the expanding footprint of violence by various Islamist groups fighting to impose sharia states across the the region.
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