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Spain Uncovers IS Prison Network
December 05, 2018
Spain’s Interior Ministry has uncovered a widespread Islamic State (IS) prison radicalization network spanning 17 of the country’s prisons, a discovery that reinforces the findings of a recent British think thank study showing that prisons frequently function as incubators for jihadism.
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Turkey Politicizes Islam at UN Security Council
December 05, 2018
A leading member of Turkey’s Islamist government argued that global Muslim demographics and the bloc size of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) means the UN Security Council should be required to have a permanent “Muslim member-state.”
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Islamism, Patriarchy Continue to Impede Afghan Security Reforms
December 05, 2018
Billions of dollars in US-NATO security sector reforms in Afghanistan, aiming at the integration of women into Afghan military structures and into the provision of human security at the local level, have made little progress against the powerful social pressure of Islamist ideology and traditional patriarchy in the Southwest Asian country.
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Corruption, Ultra-Extremism Weaken Saudi Islamist Theocracy
December 05, 2018
Writer Daniel Lazare explains how endemic corruption in the state leadership apparatus in Saudi Arabia, combined with pressure from al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) ultra-extremists who view the Saudi regime as lacking in Islamist rigor, are combining to weaken the Mideast’s largest Islamist theocracy.
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Release of Hate Preacher Roils UK
December 05, 2018
The pending release of Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary from a British prison, where he served time because of his recruiting efforts for the Islamic State (IS), is generating enormous social tension in the UK.
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