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U.S.-Based Islamist NGO on UAE Terrorist List
November 19, 2014
The Council on American Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), a Washington-based nongovernmental organization (“NGO”) whose website says that "CAIR's vision is to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding" when it comes to Islam, has been designated a terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates' (“UAE”) newly released government list of terrorist organizations identified for purposes of countering terrorism and violent extremism.
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Turkish Prime Minister Rewriting American History for Islamist Audiences
November 19, 2014
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded the pretensions of global Islamists to shaping world historical events, telling a recent summit of Latin American Muslim leaders that Muslim explorers discovered the Americas well before Columbus's arrival in the New World.
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Vicious Cycle of Youth Radicalization and State Crackdown on Islamists Raises Threats in Egypt
November 14, 2014
Reports of growing support for The Islamic State ("IS") violent jihad within Egypt's Muslim youth population, especially the burgeoning prison population driven by the al-Sisi government's crackdown on militant Islamists, suggests a dangerous cycle of violence and blowback in Egypt.
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Militant Islamists Thriving in Austria
November 14, 2014
Western intelligence sources note that Austria has a serious problem with radical Islamists who are radicalizing the county's Muslim youth, exporting jihadis fighters to the Mideast, and cooperating with Islamist recruiting and money-laundering networks in Central and Southeast Europe.
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Turkey Calls on OIC to Organize Action Against Israel on Al-Aqsa Issue
November 12, 2014
Senior government officials in Turkey called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) to take the lead in mobilizing the OIC's 57 member-states in collective action for Muslims worldwide, against Israel for its "aggression and assaults" on the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem.