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OIC Leader Says Islamist Militants Misinterpret Jihad
April 20, 2015
The Secretary General of the global, multilateral Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") criticized militant extremists such as the Islamic State ("IS") for their erroneous interpretation of jihad, which he defined as a Muslim's way of becoming a good person, rather than ISIS's willingness to kill women and children and for failure to fight Israel.
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OIC Plans Expanded Engagement with China
April 20, 2015
An official delegation from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") is arriving in China to discuss expanding areas of engagement between "the Muslim world and China," as well as to address the Israeli-Palestinian issue, OIC concerns about Islamophobia and the condition of Muslims in China.
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Malaysian Hardline Islamists Try to Brand Anti-Terrorism Laws as Biased Against Islam
April 20, 2015
The Malaysian branch of the global Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir, whose declared aim is the establishment of a worldwide caliphate and a rejection of democracy, has denounced Malaysia's new anti-terrorism legislation as the promotion of "Western bias" that fails to differentiate between "extremism versus legitimate jihad against enemies of Islam."
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Al-Shabaab Attack in Kenya Reflects Broader Islamist Ambitions Beyond Horn of Africa
April 20, 2015
The recent lethal attack against a Christian university in Kenya by the Somali-based Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab points to a strategic shift, based in the expansion of jihadi terror operations aimed at the imposition of sharia law beyond the Horn of Africa to all of East Africa.
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U.S. Charges Returnee with Terrorism After Fighting with Islamists in Syria
April 17, 2015
A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a young Somali-American with material support to terrorism, as he confessed that he returned from fighting in Syria with the violent Islamist group al-Nusra Front in order to carry out attacks on U.S. soil.
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