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Saudi Government Clamps down on Asylum Seekers
January 23, 2019
According to an article in The New Yorker, the Saudi government has implemented a systematic strategy of intimidation in reaction to the past several years’ sharp uptick in applications for human rights asylum by Saudi Arabia’s citizens, especially women suffering under the Islamist theocratic kingdom’s repressive Islamist social and family law.
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International Conference Showcases Saudi-Egyptian Ties
January 23, 2019
Egypt’s Ministry of Religious Endowments, which regulates the economic affairs of the country’s mosques, lauded “Saudi Arabia’s leadership of Muslims worldwide” at the recent International Conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, indicating the growing influence of the Saudis’ Wahhabi Islamist regime in geopolitically important Egypt.
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Resilient IS Targets US Troops for Second Time in Northeast Syria
January 21, 2019
Less than a week after an Islamic State (IS) terror attack caused US casualties in Syria’s northeastern city of Manbij, IS guerrillas launched a suicide vehicle attack in the same area against a combined American and Kurdish coalition convoy.
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UK Investigates Scouts Group with Ties to Islamist Extremist Leader
January 21, 2019
British police are investigating a Scouts group run from a South London mosque after media reported that the Imam at the mosque, who reportedly has links to the 1993 US World Trade Center bombing, was preaching gender segregation and female genital mutilation to the Scouts.
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OIC, Turkey Cooperate on Global Islamist Program
January 21, 2019
The central role of Turkey and Qatar in promoting the global agenda of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was evident in a recent meeting in Ankara of the Chairman of the Qatar-based OIC Humanitarian Fund and Turkey’s top Muslim cleric and head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).