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IS Confirms Responsibility for Multi-Casualty Christmas Day Attack in Congo
January 23, 2022
The IS’ Central African affiliate has claimed responsibility for the multi-casualty Christmas Day suicide bombing attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), confirming the ongoing trend towards suicide bombings over the last year by the IS DRC branch.
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AQ Media Lauds Texas Synagogue Attacker
January 23, 2022
A major Al-Qaeda (AQ) media platform has lauded the British perpetrator of the recent attack on a Texas synagogue as a martyr for his demands that AQ sympathizer Aafia Siddiqui be released from a US jail, with AQ media outlets’ anti-Semitic discourse picked up in the echo chamber of other extremists groups that advocate anti-Semitic violence.
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Policy Prevention of Islamist Terrorism Requires Understanding Religious Roots
January 23, 2022
According to Memri.org, Islamist terrorists draw on fundamentalist interpretations of core religious values that key leaders deploy to build an ideology justifying violence against Muslims and non-Muslims alike, so effective counter-terrorism policy depends on analysis of the distorted interpretations of those key religious values.
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Sharia Law Has Globalized With Different Versions and Effects
January 21, 2022
The Council of Foreign Relations explains how Islamic religious law known as sharia, which is built on a combination of Quranic teachings, sayings and practices attributed to Islam’s prophet Mohammed, had been globalized, with different versions customized to national and local conditions, as well as different impacts affecting a broad panoply of social practices and political regime types.
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French Interior Ministry Shuts Mosque Over Radicalization Concerns
January 19, 2022
France's Minister of the Interior closed a large mosque in the French Riviera city of Cannes, based on multi-year intelligence indicating that the site leaders were inciting hatred through anti-Semitic language, part of a broader problem of Islamist radicalization identiifed with an estimated 70 mosques in the EU country.
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