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Saudi Political Shakeup Raises Risk of Mideast Conflict
November 14, 2017
The political purge and corruption dragnet underway by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, second in line for the throne of the Wahhabi theocracy, is creating unprecedented authoritarianism inside the country and threatens to provoke direct Saudi-Iran violence in the already geopolitically unstable Gulf region.
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UK Court Rejects Muslim School Segregation Appeal
November 13, 2017
A UK appeals court has rejected an appeal from the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) requesting review of a ruling that some AMS schools were causing discrimination through their policy of gender discrimination on the grounds of sharia law requirements.
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FBI Investigates IS Hacking of US School Websites
November 13, 2017
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating an Islamic State (IS) hacker attack on 800 public schools across the US after a Georgia-based host server for the schools sent visitors to their sites to IS YouTube videos that included text banners of "I love Islamic State (ISIS)."
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France, Switzerland Launch Counter-terrorism Operation
November 13, 2017
A joint counter-terrorism operation in France and Switzerland resulted in the arrest of 10 individuals identified as suspects in a planned Islamist terror attack on the French city of Nice.
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West Needs Policy Response to Returning Jihadis
November 08, 2017
Thomas McCabe writes that the US and its allies need smart, expeditious policy responses to the threat from jihadis returning from fighting with the Islamic State (IS), including the use of procedures to apprehend returnees before they cross borders and possible revocation of citizenship for Western jihadis due to material support to IS terrorism.
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