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Saudi Bid for Manchester United Soccer Team Linked to Islamist Rivalries & Soft Power
October 23, 2019
The renewed bid by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a takeover bid of British premier soccer club Manchester United reflects the Gulf Islamist theocracy’s continued efforts to use soft power tools a like sports to globally push the Wahhabi brand over competing Gulf Islamist regimes, even as the soccer team’s majority owners and fans balk at the Saudi regime’s human rights abuses.
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IS Gains Ground in Nigerian Beachhead into West Africa
October 23, 2019
The homegrown Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has been repurposed and reinvigorated through integration to the IS globalization networks, with the renamed ISWAP’s (Islamic State West Africa Province) relentless and successful jihadist campaign to destabilize Nigeria’s government used as a beachhead for an expanding regional jihad.
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Supreme Court Denies Hearing on Maryland Student's First Amendment Claims About Teachings on Islam in Pubic High School
October 23, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of a Maryland high school student who claimed that her public school's World History curriculum violated her first amendment rights.
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Taliban Come Out the Winners in Recent Meeting with US & Pakistani Officials
October 23, 2019
The recent meeting of a delegation of senior Taliban leaders met with Pakistani and US government officials in Pakistan's capital city points to a re-start in peace negotiations that normalize the Islamist extremist group as Afghanistan's political power broker and marginalize the current Afghan government elected last month.
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Arab League Condemns Turkish Invasion of Syria, Warns of Resurgent IS
October 16, 2019
The Arab League has condemned Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria as a catalyst for the regeneration of IS in the Mideast region, as new refugee flows and increased humanitarian emergencies create the ripe chaotic context for IS’ resurgence and recruitment.
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