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Boko Haram Wages New Assault in War for Sharia State in Nigeria
January 02, 2015
The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram carried out another attack on civilians in Nigeria, continuing the movement's terror campaign to impose Sharia rule throughout the country.
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Saudi Arabia Looks to Sharia to Justify Medieval Criminal Sentences
January 02, 2015
Saudi Arabia's criminal code and judiciary continue to rely on Islamic law to justify beheadings, limb amputations, and floggings as punishments of choice for a wide range of crimes, ranging from apostasy to public dissent against government policies, and the Kingdom's new anti-terrorism law will extend those Sharia-based punishments to thought crimes and "disloyalty to the country's rulers."
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OIC Chief in Sudan to Boost Islamic Solidarity in Africa
December 31, 2014
The Secretary General of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) is visiting Sudan to explore opportunities for strategic partnerships with the Sub-Saharan country, as part of the OIC's broader effort to consolidate "Islamic joint programs" throughout the African Continent.
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ISIS Perpetrates Rape, Forced Conversions, Trafficking of Yazidi Women
December 31, 2014
Global rights group Amnesty International has issued a new report with eye-witness accounts detailing the Islamic State's (“IS”) use of systematic rape, forced conversions to Islam, forced marriages, and human trafficking against Yazidi women and girls captive in the areas of Iraq now controlled by the violent extremist group waging war to establish a global Islamic caliphate.
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Morocco Faces Dilemma in Countering Violent Islamism
December 31, 2014
The Moroccan state has launched a widespread preventive security dragnet aimed at radical Islamist groups and jihadist elements from North and Sub-Saharan Africa, but some Morocco experts worry that the counter-terrorism approach will alienate average Moroccan citizens fearful of a surveillance state and a rollback of liberalizing reforms.
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