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OIC Expands Global Media Strategy for Achieving Its Goals
July 13, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") is expanding its strategic use of global media to promote the organization's objectives as the self-defined protector of Muslims worldwide, announcing a new effort by the International Islamic News Agency ("IINA") to train journalists and dedicate coverage to the OIC's platform of "countering Islamophobia and combating extremism and terrorism."
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UK Charity Group Reveals Complicated Ties Between Global Islamist Networks and Islamist Terror Organizations
July 13, 2015
A recent inquiry into the Europe Trust, a registered charity under British law, revealed that the organization's start-up capital came from Arabian Gulf donors and that Europe Trust mainly supports the European branches and affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood, many of whose leaders and members have been linked to Islamist terror group operations and lone-wolf acts of Islamist violence.
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Islamic Caliphate Expands Jihadi Front into Russia
July 13, 2015
Radical Islamist groups in the Caucasus are consolidating their support behind the Islamic State ("IS"), indicating the development of a unified jihadi front aiming to expand the IS caliphate from Syria and Iraq into Chechnya and Dagestan and, then, into Russia.
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IS Commits Atrocities to Forcibly Conscript Children for Jihad
July 13, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") is forcibly conscripting Sunni boys into jihadi activities, committing atrocities such as public immolations of women and children as penalty for non-compliance with conscription.
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Afghanistan Devolving into Islamist Civil War
July 13, 2015
Afghanistan is fracturing into an Islamist civil war, with Hezb-e-Islami, an Islamist organization whose leader is on the US Terrorism Watch List, recently declaring allegiance to the Islamic State ("IS") factions engaged in a battle with the Taliban for control over the country.