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Taliban’s Virtue-Vice Ministry Uses Sharia in Expanding Assault Women’s Rights
December 27, 2021
The Taliban Islamist regime ruling Afghanistan is expanding its assault on women’s rights, as the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is deploying Islamic sharia law to justify restrictions on women’s freedom of movement without male companions, requirements on head coverings in order for women to take taxis, and bans on education for girls and women.
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Islamist Militants Continue Jihad in Africa with Lethal Suicide Attack in DRC
December 27, 2021
Militants from the IS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) perpetrated a multi-causality suicide bombing attack at a bar crowded with civilians celebrating Christmas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), continuing the jihadist operations that are destabilizing the broad regional space of Eastern and Central Africa.
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Israeli Think Tank Warns of Security Threats from Iran’s Drone Tech
December 27, 2021
Iran’s Islamic revolutionary regime has effectively used its advances in drone technology and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to expand the regime’s Mideast influence, exporting UAV weapons to Islamist proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad in a strategy of “emissary terrorism” that poses a disruptive threat to regional security, according to a new report by Israeli think tank ALMA.
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Turkey’s Islamists Expand TV Censorship as New Year’s Celebrations Approach
December 27, 2021
Turkey’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) are expanding their media censorship for the approaching New Year’s celebrations in reaction to state-imposed prohibitions on televised programming of traditional belly dancing.
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Decades of CVE Strategy Failed to Extinguish 21st-Century Jihadists
December 27, 2021
Washington Institute writes that despite a 20-year trajectory of countering violent extremism (CVE) strategies by Western nations, the security and ideological threats posed by Islamism have remained durable, based on the combined globalization and localization of proliferation of global and local forms of Islamist militancy.
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