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Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws Use Islam to Stifle Religious and Civic Freedoms
March 11, 2015
Pakistan's blasphemy laws, notorious for their draconian limits on religious liberty and related civic freedoms such as speech and assembly, continue to target non-Muslim minorities and to foment a climate of societal impunity, reflected in biased judicial proceedings and due-process failures by policy, which has led to ongoing violence against the country's Christians, Ahmadiyya, and other "non-conforming Muslims.
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OIC Builds on EU Presence to Push Global Islamic Interests
March 11, 2015
The Ambassador of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's ("OIC") Permanent Observer Mission to the EU met in Brussels with a leading representative for Muslim interests in the disputed Indo-Pakistani territory of Kashmir, and emphasized that the OIC's EU office would engage actively on the resolution of the Kashmir problem and would continue to press for the OIC's "contribution to RU decision making processes."
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OIC Delegation Pushes Global Diplomatic Initiative Against Israeli Settlement Policy
March 04, 2015
A ministerial delegation representing the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") is making stops in Moscow, Beijing, and other world capitals in an initiative to press for international action against Israel's policy of settlement expansion into the Palestinian Territories and Jerusalem.
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Islamist Radical Arc Connects China's Uighur Fighters to Mideast Jihadis
March 04, 2015
The growing migration of China's Uighur Muslim minority community into Islamic State fighter networks in the Mideast reflects the emergence of a radical Islamist arc connecting the Middle East to Central Asia, also signaling the radicalization blowback aggravated by the Chinese state's repressive policies against the Uighurs.
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Egypt's Chief Imam Calls for Education Reform to Staunch Islamist Extremism
March 04, 2015
Egypt's leading Muslim cleric, the Grand Imam of the Sunni center of learning, Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, told a global conference sponsored by the World Muslim League that a comprehensive reform in Islamic education is a critical necessity for combating errant Islamic theological interpretations, which are fueling violent extremism and jihadi terrorism in the name of Islam.
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