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Global Jihadi Competition Plays Out in Media and Military Contexts
May 11, 2015
A meaningful understanding of what has become an undeniably global, competitive marketplace for extremist Islamist ideas and practices - led by the jihadi titans of al-Qaeda ("AQ") and and The Islamic State ("IS") - depends on a multi-level analysis that considers the AQ-IS competition in terms of clients, franchises, and wins and losses in both the media and military contexts.
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Afghan Women Worldwide Protest Islamist Extremist Violence Against Women
May 07, 2015
Afghan women worldwide have mobilized to protest the mob murder of an Afghan female university student falsely accused of blasphemy for desecrating a Koran, with women in Afghanistan forming a funeral cortège for the victim in defiance of conservative Islamic clerics' ban on women in cemeteries and demanding government protection of basic human rights and rejection of radical Islamism.
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Islamic State Claims Launch of U.S. Jihad with Attack in Texas
May 06, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") has officially taken credit for the botched attack against the controversial Prophet Mohammed Cartoon Contest this past week in Texas, referring to the gunmen as "soldiers of the caliphate" and warning of coming jihadi operations inside the United States.
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Islamist Terror Attack in Tunisia Provokes Anti-Democratic Security Measures by Government
May 06, 2015
Tunisian and international human rights watchers are expressing concerns about the Tunis government's draft law that dramatically curbs constitutional civil liberties in the name of security and counter-terrorism, which is widely viewed as blowback that risks making democracy a casualty to the recent deadly terrorist attack by Islamist extremists on Tunisia's Bardo National Museum.
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OIC Anti-Terrorism Document Focuses on Islamophobia and Self-Determination Movements
May 06, 2015
The Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") approved a draft version of an Islamic Parliamentary Charter on Action against Terrorism and Extremism, which rejects any correlation of terrorism with "resistance to foreign occupation" and emphasizes the education of non-Muslims in preventing "incitement and provocative acts taken against Islam."