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Islamist Volatility Puts Christians in Crosshairs in Latest Attack in Pakistan
February 07, 2022
In the latest episode in a pattern of violence with impunity by Islamist extremists targeting Pakistan's Chrisitan communities, two gunmen remain at large after gunning down a Christian cleric and wounding another after a local church service in the Pakistani city of Peshewar, a critical northwest border city with Afghanistan and the site of high-casuality Islamist suicide attacks in 2013 that targeted the city's Christian communities.
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Turkey's IS Chief Testimony Reveals Permissive Environment for Jihadism
February 07, 2022
The high-profile trial by the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office of the alleged Turkey boss for IS has revealed infomation pointing the Islamist terror group's systematic relocation of its core operations from Syria to NATO-member Turkey, including the stockpiling of weapons and other military materiel, plans for training European jihadists, and plans for attacks on NATO's Incirlik Air Base in the southern coast of Turkey.
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Kansas Women Fought in Syria & Planned Attacks in America
February 07, 2022
US federal prosecutors have charged Kansas woman Karn Fluke-Ekren, now in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) custody with providing material support to the IS terrorist group, based on evidence that she trained women and children for support operations for the caliphate and that she led an IS women's battalion in the Syrian city of Raqqa, with the approaching court case also including evidence of the defendant's plans to recruit on US college campuses as part of plans to stage high-casualty attacks on the American homeland.
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Islamic Fintech on the Rise in UK and Global Markets
February 02, 2022
The United Kingdom’s (UK) strong interests in making London a global hub for sharia-compliant/compatible banking and finance is set to continue with a focus on aggressive expansion into Islamic do tech (financial technology), a sector that financial exports project to have robust short- and medium-term growth in both core Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries and in international markets.
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Latest Shakeup in Lebanese Politics Is Another Win for Hezbollah
February 02, 2022
Lebanon’s fractured political system took another hit, with gains for Hezbollah’s Islamist agenda, as the recent announcement by longtime Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri that he is retiring from politics in the run-up to May’s scheduled elections creates disarray in the Sunni opposition block to Hezbollah’s already dominant position in Lebanon.
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