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Competition Between Government and Opposition Islamist Groups Intensifies in Turkey
October 03, 2014
The Islamist Justice and Development Party governing Turkey and the country's many religious orders, including the Gulenist movement and other central Anatolian Islamist orders, are engaged in a media war of words and social constituencies about the growing influence of Saudi Wahhabi and Iranian Shiite doctrines in Turkey.
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Qatar Backing for Islamist Extremists Contributes to Mideast and Global Violence
October 02, 2014
In its ambitions to become a global Sunni power-broker, petro-rich Qatar has financed and weaponized a range of Islamist extremists in the Mideast and North Africa, creating blowback in the form of regional violence and globalized terror networks that threaten democratic regimes worldwide.
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Somali Islamist Militants Punish Woman with Death by Stoning
October 01, 2014
Al-Shabaab, the militant Islamist group fighting to make Somalia a sharia state, followed a religious court's conviction of a local woman on charges of adultery by carrying out a punishment of death by public stoning.
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Australian Government Urges Cooperation with Muslim Citizens Around Islamophobia and Radicalization
October 01, 2014
Police officials and Muslim leaders in Victoria, Australia, are urging cooperation between government authorities and religious organizations such as the Australian National Imams Council, in order to defuse a spate of recent Islamophobic threats and random acts of Islamic radicalism in the country.
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Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Calls for Increased OIC-UN Cooperation on Global Muslim Community
October 01, 2014
As part of the opening events of the UN General Assembly in New York, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister encouraged the leadership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) to intensify its programs to protect the interests of the global Muslim community, and encouraged greater cooperation between the OIC and the UN as the world's "two largest inter-governmental organizations."