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French Court Convictions of 2015 IS Terrorists Highlights Europe’s Islamist Radicalization Problem
July 01, 2022
The conviction by a French special court this week of 20 individuals associated with executing the Islamic State’s (IS) multi-site, high-casualty terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 brought the trial to a close, but reminded Europe of the complexities of understanding the origins and security risks of Islamist radicalization and transnationalism, given that almost all of the IS perpetrators were born in either Belgium or France and not in IS caliphate territories of Iraq and Syria.
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Taliban Convene Islamist Clerics & Tribal Leaders in Governance Meeting That Bans Women
July 01, 2022
The Islamist Taliban regime ruling Afghanistan for almost one year convened an assembly of three thousand Islamic clerics and tribal leaders to discuss governance issues in the South Asian country, while women were banned from the meeting, in another indication of the rapid marginalization and repression of women that has been a hallmark of the regime.
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Turkey’s Reach Into US Senate Elections with Dual National Candidate
June 30, 2022
According to Turkey’s Islamist regime, its Islamo-nationalist progenitors are influence-building in US national election politics, given their direct ties to U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, the t.v. celebrity who won the Republican primary in Pennsylvania this year, with US politicians and Turkish human rights journalists highlighting the candidate Oz’s dual American-Turkish citizenship and his close personal and financial ties to Turkey.
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Hamas & Hezbollah Meet to Reaffirm Abri-Israel Islamist Axis
June 30, 2022
Leadership from the Shiite Hezbollah and Sunni Hamas Islamist extremist organizations issued a joint communique follow their recent meeting in Lebanon, affirming their shared commitment to an “axis of resistance” against Israel, including military cooperation through use of Lebanon for attacks against Israeli territory.
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Afghanistan Platform for Jihadist Groups With Presence of Uighur Islamist Militant Organization
June 29, 2022
Afghanistan’s consolidation as a transregional platform for jihadist groups operating from South to West Asia was again on display with the recent presence of the head of the al-Qaeda-linked Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) for Eid al-Fitr celebrations at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, pointing to the Afghan Taliban as a permissive security regime for the TIP’s operational planning to establish an independent Uighur Muslim Islamic state in what is currently western China.
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