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Saudi Islamist Authoritarianism Reaches Netflix
January 03, 2019
Human rights and media groups have expressed outrage over Netflix’s compliance with demands from Saudi Arabia to remove an episode of the comedy series Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj from its service in the country after the Muslim comedian ridiculed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “reformer” status.
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Sunni-Shia Islamist Radicals Converge to Support Violence Against Israel
January 03, 2019
In a meeting between senior leaders of Iran’s Shiite Islamic Republic and the head of the Gaza-based Sunni Islamist terror group Islamic Jihad, all parties committed to reject Islamist sectarianism in favor of action against Israel in the event that the anticipated US plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace is perceived as pro-Israel.
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OIC Engages with Technology to Grow Impact of Sharia Finance
January 03, 2019
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Islamic Development Bank and Islamist regimes from the Arabian Gulf to North Africa are engaging actively to apply blockchain technology and to use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to accelerate the global growth of sharia-compliant financial instruments.
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Islamist Violence Spikes in Nigeria in Pre-Election Period
January 03, 2019
Fighting between competing factions of Boko Haram, the radical Islamist movement battling to make Nigeria a sharia state, is producing a spike in violence in the run-up to the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for early 2019.
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Pandering to Radical Islamists Mars Bangladesh Elections
January 03, 2019
The ruling party’s pandering to Islamist groups in the recent Bangladesh elections and the opposition’s hardline Islamist membership underscore the growing Islamist radicalization pressures in the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country.
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