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Egypt Considers Burqa Ban in Battle Against Islamist Extremism
December 13, 2018
Egypt’s Parliament will consider a draft law to ban wearing the burqa in specific public spaces, including hospitals, schools, and cinemas, as Egypt confronts public security risks that include intensifying violence by Islamist extremist groups.
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IS Influence Spreads into Weakened Jordan
December 13, 2018
US counter-terrorism experts are warning about the vulnerabilities of Jordan to Islamic State (IS) and other Islamist extremist groups, as the impact of a massive Syrian-Iraqi refugee burden on Jordan’s already-weak economy is creating the ripe conditions for radicalization and recruitment in the Hashemite Islamic Kingdom.
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US Lawmakers Push to Halt Support for Nuclear Saudi Arabia
December 13, 2018
A group of US Republican Senators called on the White House to suspend cooperation with Saudi Arabia on the development of nuclear energy capacity for the Islamic theocracy in the wake of the Wahhabi regime’s killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Taliban Continue Sharia Campaign with Another Lethal Attack
December 13, 2018
The Taliban is continuing its jihadi campaign to impose sharia law throughout Afghanistan in the aftermath of the country’s recent national elections, launching a lethal attack on an Afghan government outpost even as the Islamist group had agreed to participate in US-sponsored peace negotiations with the Kabul government.
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Islamist Sectarianism Produces Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
December 13, 2018
Almost four years of a Saudi-Iran war for control over Yemen has produced what the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe since the end of the Cold War, with nearly three-quarters of Yemen’s 22 million people suffering from the effects of the two Islamist theocracies’ war crimes that are causing famine, cholera, and massive loss of life.
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