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ISIS Manual on Slavery and Rape Draws Criticism for Use of Sharia
January 02, 2015
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ("ISIS") has distributed a color manual, "Question and Answers on Female Slaves and their Freedom," detailing conditions for slavery and rape of non-Muslim captives in the areas of Iraq controlled by the violent extremist group, drawing criticism from some experts who condemn ISIS' interpretation of Islamic law as a distortion.
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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.