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US-Taliban Negotiations Won't End Afghan Islamism
August 01, 2019
While the US-Taliban negotiations are moving steadily toward a US military withdrawal from Afghanistan and toward peace in the country's four-decade war, there are no mechanisms for guaranteeing a renunciation of the Islamist ideology and activities of the Taliban or for enforcing any Taliban counter-terrorism pledge.
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Turkish Public School Textbooks Use Islamist Tropes
August 01, 2019
Nordic Monitor reports that textbooks used in Turkey's public high schools are replete with Islamist tropes, explaining al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks against the US as justifiable retaliation for what is characterized as American hegemonic aspirations and condemning the EU as a Christian club of "infidels."
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Pakistani Taliban Destabilize with Violent Attacks in Key Province
July 30, 2019
Pakistan’s branch of the Islamist extremist Taliban was involved in several recent violent engagements with the Pakistani military in the Baluchistan province area, an active space for Islamist extremists on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and a geopolitically crucial space in the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
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Islamist Violence Generates Massive Food Insecurity in Mali
July 30, 2019
Sustained violence by Islamist groups fighting to impose sharia law in West Africa is contributing to famine and malnutrition in the country of Mali, where jihadist operations have caused major interruptions in local farming and in deliveries of humanitarian relief.
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Islamist Clerics Decry Late Tunisian President as a “Secularist”
July 30, 2019
Radical Islamist clerics in Algeria and Turkey have issued religious rulings (fatwas) against Tunisia’s recently deceased president denouncing him as a “secularist” and calling for a prohibition against his burial in a Muslim cemetery.
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