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Books Reveal West's Confusion in Dealing with Global Islamism
April 09, 2018
Recent publications have underscored the confusion of US and British foreign policymakers in trying to differentiate violent from non-violent forms of political Islamism, especially in terms of deciphering the commitment to violence, religious exclusivity, and totalitarianism by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement with the broadest global impact.
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Iran Uses Proxy Militias to Expand Shiite Sectarian Footprint
April 09, 2018
Ranj Alaaldin of the Brookings Doha Center warns of Iran's strategy of mobilizing militias in defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, then engaging in state building designed to produce Shiite political and economic dominance that can push back against Sunni Islamist sectarianism.
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Turkey Escalates Threats Against US over Northern Syria
April 09, 2018
The leaders of Turkey’s Islamist government continue to escalate tensions with other NATO members with threats of military action against Western forces supporting Syrian Kurdish militias currently controlling the town of Manbij, a key target in Turkey’s expanding military operation across Northern Syria.
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Education Remains Hostage Under Afghan Taliban
April 09, 2018
The Taliban, which is committed to strict religious education and restrictions on education of girls and women as part of the militant Islamist group’s ideology, closed at least 30 schools in an area south of the Afghan capital of Kabul in the aftermath of the killing of a local Taliban commander by the Afghan military.
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Iranian Conservatives Push for Reforms of Islamic Republic
April 09, 2018
A group of 300 conservative figures from student and revolutionary organizations has published an open letter calling for major reforms in the judicial, military, and economic institutions of Iran and critiquing the institutions of governance for failing the principles of the Islamic Republic.
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