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U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Compares Islamic Caliphate to EU
July 11, 2014
Mohamed Elibiary, an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, has created an online controversy after his recent tweets about the inevitability of an Islamic Caliphate, which he likened to an Islamic version of the EU.
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Islamist Advance in Iraq Cleanses Christian Presence
July 11, 2014
The capture of ever-greater parts of Iraq by the extremist terror group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) has been accompanied by the continuing cleansing of Iraq's ancient Christian presence by Islamists.
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Iran's Islamist Hardliners and Reformists Sharpening Lines of Division
July 11, 2014
Islamist hardliners at the Society of Seminary Teachers in the Iranian city of Qom, the country's religious epicenter, have issued a warning against the perceived liberalization agenda of the clerical group headed by Iran's Prime Minister Hassan Rouhani.
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New Study Finds OIC Countries Disproportionately Under-Developed
July 11, 2014
A new study by a joint Canadian-Saudi Arabian research group finds that the 57 countries comprising the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) demonstrate significant levels of economic under-development, economic innovation, and institutional accountability against global trends.
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Iran at OIC Calls out Islamists Attacking Iraq
July 11, 2014
Iran used the recent meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) Parliamentary Union as a platform to call for measures against "extremists and takfiris" using violence for Islamic sectarianism, an obvious reference to Sunni radicals operating in Iraq.
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