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Global Ambitions of Islamic State Could Threaten U.S. Homeland
August 15, 2014
The Islamist terror organization known as The Islamic State ("IS") has declared its intentions of using its expanding caliphate in the Middle East as a platform for global jihadi attacks on Western assets in Europe and the U.S., and American intelligence officials cite objective evidence for IS as a threat to the American homeland.
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Islamic State Draws on Radical Jurisprudence for Model of Jihadi Caliphate
August 14, 2014
The religious model for the new caliphate proclaimed by The Islamic State ("IS") leader Abu Baku al-Baghdadi is the radical jurisprudence of late-12th-early-13th-century Islamic scholar ibn Taymiyyah, whose teachings are the taproot for the most well-known, global jihadi-Islamist groups and tendencies, including al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Wahhabism.
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Turkey Tries About Face on Support for Jihadist Islamic State
August 14, 2014
After a protracted, de facto policy of support for the jihadist forces of The Islamic State (formerly, ISIS) and the al-Nusra Front, Turkey's government is beginning to crack down on smuggling ISIS oil-for-cash, treating jihadist fighters in Turkish hospitals, and allowing Turkey's broader towns to be used as safe havens for jihadi rest-and-recovery.
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Turkey's Voters Elect Islamist Erdogan as New President
August 13, 2014
Turkey's voters elected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the country's presidency yesterday, raising questions about whether the nationalist-Islamist leader will use the office to consolidate his authoritarian control over domestic politics and to ratchet up Turkey's anti-Western rhetoric and actions in the Middle East.
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Islamist Cleansing of Iraq's Religious Minorities Provokes Debates on Protection Options
August 13, 2014
The unrelenting assault by the jihadi Islamists – the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS – against Iraq's ancient Christian and Yazidi minority communities has provoked a broad debate about when and how to carry out humanitarian intervention under the doctrine of "responsibility to protect."
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