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Swedish Security Services Identify Islamism as a Domestic Threat
April 01, 2015
The Chief of Sweden's National Security Police has identified radical Islamism as a growing danger to the country's security, citing particular threats associated with the flow of European recruits to jihadi groups in Syria and Iraq, returning jihadists to Sweden, and high levels of asylum seekers to Sweden from the Mideast.
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Turkey's Youth Radicalization Reflects Domestic Islamization and Supports IS Jihad
April 01, 2015
The increasing flow of thousands of radicalized Turkish youth fighters into Islamic State ("IS") militia in Syria is interwoven with the Islamization of Turkish politics and society under the Islamist authoritarianism of the ruling Justice and Development Party ("AKP") and may present a security threat to both the country's domestic stability and regional security order.
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New Copenhagen Mosque Has Ties to Islamist Extremist Networks
April 01, 2015
Approval for a new mosque in Copenhagen by Danish authorities was secured by the Islamisk Trossamfund, a Danish Muslim faith group which was recently listed as a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates and whose former leadership was connected to the international Muslim Brotherhood.
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OIC Takes Stand on Islamist Civil War in Yemen
April 01, 2015
The 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), the self-defined protector of the worldwide Muslim community, has indicated the dominance of Sunni interests within the organization, based on the OIC Secretary General's statement of support for the Sunni-Arab military coalition bombings of Shiite Houthi militia sites in Yemen.
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UN Report Pushes for ICC Prosecution of Islamic State for Genocide and War Crimes
April 01, 2015
A recently released report of the UN Human Rights Council is urging an International Criminal Court ("ICC") inquiry into actions by the Islamic State ("IS") which constitute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, perpetrated under the banner of jihad, against Yezidis and Christians in Iraq.
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