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British Film Controversy Points to Deeper Divisions Within Islam & Challenges for Europe
June 20, 2022
According to unherd.com, Islamist extremist threats of violence that have successfully halted the showing of a British film about the wife of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed reflect the decades-long trend in Europe whereby Islamists justify intimidation and violence against free speech in the arts that are deemed blasphemous to their religion, reflecting a deeper contestation within Islam’s various tendencies and pointing to European governments’ submission to fundamentalist demands.
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Iran’s Proxy Militias Use Persecution & Discrimination for Religious Cleansing of Mideast Christians
June 16, 2022
Iran’s Islamist theocratic regime has invested in a Mideast regional network of Shiite Islamist proxy militias that cooperate with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in using a combination of violent persecution and institutionalized discrimination policies that are aimed to cleanse the region if its Christian populations, evidenced in an recent four-country report released by independent advocacy group Philos Project.
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Universities Are Frontline Space in Islamism Debate in France
June 15, 2022
The university system in France had emerged as a frontline space for intellectual debates about the differences between Islamism and cultural particle risk versus the universalist values and religion separation associated with French law and national identity, with pitched battles about curriculum, pedagogy, and research related to the politics of Left and Right in dealing with preventing Islamist violence.
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Turkey’s Islamist Regime Is Spoiler for NATO, Enabling IS & Russia
June 15, 2022
Fox News reports Turkey‘s Islamist regime is seeking a raft of material and territorial concessions in exchange for unblocking admission to the Transatlantic Alliance for Sweden and Finland, but Ankara’s spoiler is emboldening both Russia and IS in ways that intensify both state and non-state threats to the West’s security and strategic interests.
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Islamic Protests Stop UK showing of Film About Prophet Mohammed’s Wife
June 13, 2022
Protests and threats by Britain’s Islamic community leaders have condemned the new film Lady of Heaven as blasphemous given that it is a depiction of the life of the wife of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, leading two major United Kingdom (UK) theatre distributors to withdraw the film from all UK outlets out of expressed concerns for the safety of staff and patrons.
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