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OIC Chief to Make Statement Visit to Jerusalem
January 07, 2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), the global, multilateral group composed of 57 Muslim-majority member-states, has announced his upcoming visit to East Jerusalem with a call to the world's Muslims to visit the Al-Aqsa mosque there.
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OIC Calls in International Organizations to Protect CAR Muslims
January 07, 2015
The global Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) accused the international community of indifference to Muslims in the civil war conditions in the Central African Republic (“CAR”), and called on the United Nations to implement OIC recommendations to protect CAR's Muslim population.
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Spread of Islamist Radicalism in Sweden Causes Threats and Social Disorder
January 07, 2015
The Swedish government is trying to maintain domestic social order and the country's liberal democratic freedoms, in the face of security threats from the spread of Islamist extremist recruitment to the jihadi Islamic State and recent anti-immigrant attacks against mosques in Sweden's main cities.
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Radical Islamists in Mideast and Africa Fuse Literalist Theology and Media to Endorse Rape and Enslavement of Women
January 02, 2015
The last quarter of 2014 saw The Islamic State ("IS") in the Mideast using a range of social media and propaganda tools to articulate a literalist interpretation of Islam and medieval rules of warfare, in order to justify the systematic rape and enslavement of women and girls, an approach replicated by Islamist extremists in Africa.
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Complex Connections Between Terror Funding and Islamic Finance Signal Caution
January 02, 2015
Concerns over the complex connections between Islamist terror funding streams and the global spike in sharia finance instruments are pushing international security and financial monitoring groups to intensify due diligence for investment and development in Africa.