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Creeping Islamism Feared as Source of Deadly Attack in Tunisia
March 19, 2015
Tunisian government officials fear that yesterday's deadly attack on visitors at the country's internationally renowned Bardo Museum is the work of domestic radical Islamists and others from neighboring Libya, given that the high numbers of Tunisians who have flocked to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamic State ("IS") belies the moderate pronouncements of Libya's Islamist Ennahda Party.
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OIC Denounces Terror Attack in Tunisia
March 19, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") issued an official condemnation of the fatal terrorist attack on Tunisia's Bardo National Museum, with the OIC Secretary General denouncing the assault as a distortion of Tunisia's history of "tolerance and enlightenment."
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UN Report Finds Human Rights Violations Under Sharia Governance in Iran
March 19, 2015
The new report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran concludes that there has been a deterioration of overall human rights conditions, including religious, civil, and political liberties, since 2013, as these freedoms are subject to interpretation, qualification, and restriction according to sharia as the law of the land in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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OIC, Turkey, and Egypt Taking Lead on Integration of Think Tanks from "Islamic Countries"
March 18, 2015
Turkey and Egypt are taking the lead, with coordination from the global, multilateral Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), in continuing efforts toward integration and cooperation among the think-tank communities across the 57 member-states of the OIC.
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British Government Report on Muslim Brotherhood Could Raise Tensions with Arab Gulf Monarchies
March 18, 2015
Political experts opine that, to avoid harming relations with British allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of whom have declared the Muslim Brotherhood ("MB") a terrorist organization, the British Government has postponed the release of a comprehensive report on the MB in the United Kingdom, which recommends against designating the group as terrorists.
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