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Mideast Geopolitical Realignment Centers on Competing Islamisms
November 20, 2017
The realignment of Mideast geopolitics underway since the formation of the anti-Qatar quartet of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt turns on the competing Islamisms of the region's two main Islamist theocracies, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran.
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Pro-IS Media in Egypt Calls for Attacks on Christians
November 20, 2017
An Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) issued a call through its media channels for attacks on Coptic Orthodox Christians as "infidels" who deserve violence because they reject their second-class status as Christians under Islam.
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YouTube Removes Videos Related to Yemeni Islamist
November 20, 2017
YouTube applied its anti-extremism policy of banning videos that incite violence or terrorism and of banning accounts for individuals named on terrorist lists to remove from the site the entire body of 70,000 works related to radical Yemeni Islamist extremist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Tensions Escalate Between Israel, Jihadi Group
November 20, 2017
The war of words between Israel and the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad, which receives strong funding and materiel support from Iran and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, has intensified to the level of high alert for both Israel and the militant organization, which publicly warned its followers that Israel's destruction of a Gaza tunnel in October was "an act of war."
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Turkish Law Permits Muslim Clerics to Conduct Civil Marriages
November 20, 2017
The Islamization of law and society continues under Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, with the passage of a new law that gives Muslim clerics the right to perform civil marriages in Turkey, as human rights groups warn the law will create the possibility of polygamy and child brides in accordance with conservative Islamist interpretations.
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