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U.S.-Designated Terrorist Group Hezbollah Is Kingmaker in New Lebanese Government with Weak Popular Legitimacy
February 05, 2020
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed, Shiite extremist group has emerged as the kingmaker in the new Lebanese government formed after two-plus months of popular protests against endemic political corruption and protracted economic crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean country.
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EU Study Raises Concerns about Outcomes of Political Islamism in Turkey
February 05, 2020
According to an EU Horizon 2020 project report, the consolidation of political Islamism in Turkey has correlated with a decline in educational standards, a youth “brain drain” from the country, rising levels of economic corruption based on patronage networks, increased violence against women, and a turn towards political authoritarianism.
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OIC Member-States Close Ranks to Condemn US Plan for Israel-Palestine Rapprochement
February 05, 2020
An emergency summit of he 57 member-states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) to discuss the U.S. peace plan for Israeli-Palestinian normalization resulted in the issuance of an official statement condemning the plan and a joint Sunni-Shiite call for all OIC member-states not to cooperate in realizing the plan.
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New Book Details the Two Islamic Revolutions that Globalized Islamist Radicalism and Weaponized Islamic Sectarianism
February 05, 2020
A new book by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist Kim Ghattas describes how the twin 1979 Islamist revolutions that occurred in Iran and Saudi Arabia generated a new paradigm of globalized Islamist radicalism and of weaponized Islamic sectarianism.
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Iran-Iraq Shiite Religious Leadership United in Protection and Promotion of Shiite Expansion
February 05, 2020
In a Foreign Policy article, expert analysts from the London-based Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies explain that, contrary to the hope of U.S. leaders, communications between Iraq's Grand Aytaollah Ali al-Sistani and Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are united in their protection and promotion of Shiite expansion, in the Mideast and beyond.
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