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Taliban Stage Terror Attack in Kabul
July 01, 2019
The Taliban, continuing their jihadist campaign to impose sharia throughout Afghanistan, carried out a high-casualty attack on central buildings of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense, even as Taliban representatives are meeting in Qatar with US officials about a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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OIC Campaign Equates Islamophobia with Anti-Semitism
July 01, 2019
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is intensifying its campaign for a UN resolution condemning defamation of religions as a way of silencing all criticism of Islam by trying to equate Islamophobia with anti-Semitism.
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Rights Groups Express Concern About Foreign Fighter Trials
July 01, 2019
International human rights groups are raising concerns about the legal options for trying the 2,000-plus foreign fighters now detained in Syria and Iraq by US-supported Kurdish forces, as observers warn of the possibility of future radicalization.
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Report: Muslim Millennials Will Grow Islamic Banking
July 01, 2019
Thomson Reuters’ State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2018-19 predicts that Muslim millennials will be the key demographic drivers of strong expansion in the already $2.1-plus trillion global Islamic finance market.
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Turkistan Islamic Party Joins Islamist Groups Waging War in Syria
July 01, 2019
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), a predominantly Uighur jihadist group with al Qaeda affiliation, has joined the ecosystem of Islamist extremist groups waging war in northern Syria as part of the ongoing violence related to the Islamic caliphate.