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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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Sharia in Mauritania Used to Prosecute for Free Speech and Anti-Slavery
December 31, 2014
The influence of Sharia law in Mauritania's judicial system is driving proceedings against an author accused of blasphemy for criticizing the country's class structure and a civic organization accused of incitement for campaigning against slavery in Mauritania.
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Malaysian Student Groups Call on OIC to Pressure Interpol on Islamist Arrest Warrant
December 24, 2014
A broad-based coalition of Malaysian university-student groups, the Students' Representative Council of Islamic Higher Education Institutions, has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), the global organization claiming to represent the interests of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, to pressure Interpol into revoking its arrest warrant for Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Yussuf al-Qaradawi.
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Afghan Taliban Condemn Pakistani Taliban's School Attack as Un-Islamic
December 24, 2014
Evidence of the internecine conflicts that define Islamist extremist competition for hegemony in South Asia, Afghanistan's Taliban, the self-styled "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," officially condemned the Pakistani Taliban's attack on the Peshawar school as contrary to the principles of Islam.
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Europe's Mosques Emerging as Key in Hearts-and-Minds Battle Against Violent Islamism
December 24, 2014
Emblematic of a broader trend in European countries, Germany's mosques are emerging as key spaces in which radical Islamists of The Islamic State (“IS”) type compete with liberal imams in a hearts-and-minds struggle for cradle and convert Muslim youth.
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