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Congressional Report Reveals Saudi Arabia as State Sponsor of Terror
July 18, 2016
Release of the previously classified sections of the congressional inquiry into the 9/11 Islamist terror attack against the US reveals the Saudi Arabian regime's consistent moves to impede Washington's efforts to counter the globalization of al-Qaeda extremism and violence, as well as myriad connections between Saudi state officials and the 9/11 perpetrators.
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Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey Bares Country's Roiling Islamist Groups
July 18, 2016
Turkey's autocratic Islamist government's blaming of Pennsylvania-based Turkish Islamist cleric Fetullah Gulen for a failed coup attempt lays bare the deep rupture that has developed between the governing Islamist AK Party and the vast, wealthy, grassroots network of Gulenist religious schools and police and judicial actors credited with the initial success of the AK Party.
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UN Conference Seeks Media Shift in Migrant Portrayal
July 13, 2016
UNESCO recently partnered with the Russian Federal Research and Methodology Centre for Tolerance, Psychology and Education to organize a conference on how to promote a positive vision of migrants, in the media and elsewhere, as contributors to the UN's agenda on sustainable development.
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IS Shifts Foreign Terror Tactics
July 13, 2016
Politico reports that French security authorities have warned of approximately 400 to 500 people who have returned to the country after fighting under the Islamic State who may play a part in the shift of IS tactics toward car bombs and other remote attacks permitting the assailants to avoid being killed during their operations.
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UN Agent Calls for Local Action on Xenophobia
July 12, 2016
As part of the UN's expanded messaging countering perceived xenophobia and intolerance against migrants, the UN Special Rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, Mutuma Ruteere, has called for local and context-specific government action responding to hate speech and other forms of intolerance rooted in xenophobia.