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Indonesian Linked to IS Sparks Debate About Public Health
January 10, 2018
The leader of a hardline Islamist group in Indonesia linked to money laundering for the Islamic State (IS) and to blasphemy protests posted an online video in which he recited sayings of Islam's prophet Mohammed to justify the medicinal benefits of consuming camel urine, sparking an opposition outcry from Indonesia's Ministry of Health and from the World Health Organization.
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Islamist Groups Fracture over Response to Jerusalem Status
January 10, 2018
The Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State released an online video exhorting its followers to execute Hamas members in Gaza, denouncing them for their failure to wage worldwide jihad against Americans and Jews in the wake of last month's decision by the US regarding recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Islamist Activists Square off in Campaign on Religiosity of Gazans
January 10, 2018
Competing Islamist leaders are squaring off in the Palestinian Territory of Gaza, as the "Grand Fajr/Dawn Campaign" launched by Islamist activists using morning prayer patrols for mosque attendance and Ramadan messages for imposed fasting is generating pushback from other Islamic scholars ruling that Islamic law forbids compulsion that "annoys or disturbs" people.
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Protests Strike at Legitimacy of Iranian Regime
January 10, 2018
The wave of protests across Iran in the past two weeks hits against the legitimacy of the country's Islamist theocratic regime, as middle-class citizens join the country's poor and working class strata to condemn the regime for its failures to implement Islamist justifications for improving the socioeconomic standing and guaranteeing the economic rights of the oppressed and the poor.
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FRA Director: Migration Is Not a Security Issue
January 10, 2018
In testimony to the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Terrorism, Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Michael O'Flaherty called for governments to adhere to a human rights-centered policy of combating terrorism and "warned against framing migration as a security issue."