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Islamic Leaders Boycott Hajj over Saudi Extremism
August 12, 2019
During last week's annual pilgrimage (hajj) to the Great Mosque of Mecca, a boycott movement from some Muslim leaders calling out the Saudi regime for globally exporting Wahhabist extremism challenged the country’s religious legitimacy as the protector of Islam's holiest sites.
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Islamist Sectarian Struggle Threatens Gulf Infrastructure
August 12, 2019
The escalation of attacks on critical infrastructure in communications, transportation, and energy in the Persian Gulf poses significant risks for US strategic interests in Eurasia, with the expansion of Islamist sectarian struggles for religious and geopolitical hegemony between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia.
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UK Bank Controversy Trains Light on Gulf Islamist Financing
August 09, 2019
The recent discovery that the UK’s largest Islamic bank is funding Islamist extremist groups in Europe and the US has trained a light on the risks of Arabian Gulf states’ backing of worldwide sharia-compliant/compatible financial entities.
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Taliban Leadership Urges Continued Jihad During Holiday
August 09, 2019
The Afghan Taliban’s leadership urged their forces to fight without interruption throughout the current Islamic high holiday of Eid al-Adha to expel the US-led international stabilization force of “invaders” to realize the goal of establishing the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”
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Saudi Decision to Host US Troops Could Lead to Blowback
August 09, 2019
Historical evidence indicates that Saudi Arabia’s decision to welcome US combat troops back to the kingdom as a move against Iranian Shiite activism may produce serious blowback in the form of renewed Sunni and Shiite Islamist jihadism worldwide.
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