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Netherlands Recalls Embassy Staff in Pakistan
December 14, 2018
Hardline Islamists in Pakistan continue to demand the death penalty for judges and politicians involved in the acquittal of a Christian woman imprisoned for years on blasphemy charges and have threatened violence against personnel at the Dutch Embassy in Islamabad, forcing the Netherlands to recall a sizable number of staff for security reasons.
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Afghan Government Casualties Show Taliban Resilience
December 14, 2018
Afghanistan’s President has shared data indicating that, since 2015, more than 28,000 Afghan police officers and soldiers have been casualties of the Islamist extremist Taliban forces warring to make the Southwest Asian country a sharia state.
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Saudi Ruler Shores up Support for MBS
December 14, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is touring the fundamentalist Wahhabi heartland in a damage control campaign designed to shore up support for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in the continuing fallout from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Swiss Firm Becomes Sharia-Compliant
December 14, 2018
A major player in the Swiss cryptocurrency ecosystem has secured Islamic certification of its digital currency as sharia-compliant and announced plans to launch a crypto exchange endorsed by Bahrain’s Sharia Review Board.
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Turkey Slams US and Buys Oil from Iran
December 14, 2018
Turkey’s Islamist government secured a waiver from the US to continuing buying oil from Iran’s Islamist theocratic regime and promptly slammed the US sanctions as “imperial,” signaling that Islamist ideological ties and associated commercial interests remain the drivers in Middle East geopolitical alignments.
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