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FATF Designation Highlights Islamist Extremist Groups’ State Protection in Pakistan
January 26, 2022
Global financial watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has continued Pakistan’s designation on the grey list, because of deficiencies in the state’s approach to resolving money laundering and terrorism problems, evidenced in state failures to disband the many Islamist extremist groups associated with both violence against the country’s religious minorities and links to external jihadist groups.
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Turkey’s Islamists Win Appeal to US Supreme on Halkbank Iran Sanctions Busting Case
January 26, 2022
Turkey’s Islamist regime has scored a win in the U.S. judicial system, when a U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of Turikish-state-owned lender Halkbank’s petition to appeal to the Supreme Court to throw out a case against Halkbank for multiple indictments of money laundering, bank fraud sanctions, and participation in a multi-billion scheme to evade US sanctions against Iran’s Islamist regime.
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Turkey’s Islamists Target Speech Freedoms
January 25, 2022
Turkey’s Islamist regime continues its assault on speech freedoms with the country’s president calling for one of Turkey’s most popular singers to have her tongue cut out because of musical lyrics deemed religiously insulting, followed by the arrest of a leading journalist on charges of insulting the president because of her recitation of a proverb.
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IS Jihadists in Nigeria Continue Targeting Schoolchildren
January 25, 2022
Jihadist militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) abducted 20 schoolchildren in Nigeria after razing a village in the northwestern part of the country, with this recent episode part of a pattern that, according to UNICEF, has witnessed jihadists kidnapping 1500 schoolchildren in Nigeria in the past year alone.
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Pakistan Assumes Helm of OIC Foreign Ministers Council
January 25, 2022
Pakistan has assumed the chairmanship of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of islamic Cooperation (OIC), and following Niger, the handover speaks to the focal footprint of the 57-member multilateral organization that claims to represent the Muslims worldwide.
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