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Potential MB Terrorist Designation Reveals Islamist Factionalism
May 29, 2019
The US government's renewed policy discussion about labeling the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization reveals the internal factionalism of Islamist politics, with Islamic theocracies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates keen to silence the MB's critique of their brand of Islam.
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IS Goes Global, Local in Attacks Despite Caliphate's Collapse
May 29, 2019
The Islamic State (IS) Easter attacks on churches in Sri Lanka underscore that the territorial collapse of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria has failed to deter the Islamist jihadi group's cause, instead indicating a shift to a global insurgency model that relies on local support to target foreigners and wreak economic havoc.
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UN Implicates Quranic Schools in Senegal in Child Trafficking
May 29, 2019
International human rights organizations and the UN have identified Quranic schools in Senegal as sources of child trafficking and exploitation networks extending regionally across West Africa.
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Role of Islamists in Sudan’s New Regime Raises Tensions
May 29, 2019
The political and social jockeying for a new regime after the fall of General Omar al-Bashir’s dictatorship in Sudan is intensifying over the role of Islamist parties, which had been implicated in the country’s military dictatorship that produced sharia law across the geopolitically critical African state.
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Sri Lanka Bombings Reveal Broader South Asian Patterns
May 24, 2019
The Islamist terror Easter attacks on churches in Sri Lanka reveal a broader pattern of sectarian intolerance aggravated by economic inequity that is generating social fragmentation and religious violence across South Asia.
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