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Transnational Shiite Islamist Influence at Work in Iraq
June 01, 2022
The influence of transnational Islamism was evidenced in the recent decision by Iraq’s Parliament to criminalize normalization of political and business relations with Israel under a proposal submitted by Iraq’s high-prior Shiite cleric Mourad’s Al-Sadr, with the Iran’s Islamist theocracy and its Shia allies in Lebanon, along with Sunni jihadist groups in the Mideast, lauding the decision against normal relations with “the Zionist entity.”
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Turkey’s Islamist Reach on Display at Erdogan’s Meeting with US Islamic Umbrella Organization
June 01, 2022
The transnational Islamist activism of NATO-member Turkey’s regime were underscored in the recent meeting held by Turkey’s President Erdogan with the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group whose Secretary-General is a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer who discussed how to elevate and expand the Diyanet-funded mosque complex in the US state of Maryland as a convening location for the pan-Islamist priorities of Turkey.
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Pending Irish Court Decision Highlights Domestic Radicalization & Foreign Fighters
June 01, 2022
Ireland’s Special Court that deals with terrorism and organized crime cases is set to rule on the trial of a former member of the Irish Defence Forces who converted to Islam and travelled to Syria to provide material support to the Islamic State (IS) as part of her expressed desire to line under sharia law and die a martyr”.
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VOA: Mali’s Reality Shows Islamist Extremism Threatens World’s Cultural Heritage
June 01, 2022
Mali’s security officials have announced the likely cancellation of the annual restoration-preservation event at the country’s Great Mosque of Djenné, a site designated by UNESCO as World Heritage at risk, because of the intense, ongoing deterioration of the country’s security environment posed by expanding conflict perpetrated by Islamist extremist groups active in the West African country.
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IRGC Focuses on Apocalyptic Islamist Indoctrination to Promote Globalized Jihadism
May 27, 2022
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) remains the top of the spear in Iran’s export of jihadism, and the IRGC leadership relies increasingly on political and religious indoctrination of recruits and their families according to Islamist apocalyptic principles that demand loyalty to globalizing the Islamic Revolution, at a time when the United States is considering removal of the IRGC from the designation as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO)
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