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Islamist Regimes Use Religious Soft Power & Citizenship Rights to Compete Globally
November 19, 2021
Islamist regimes in the Mideast Gulf region are using citizenship to attract international talent to key economic sectors in a growing effort to compete globally, maintaining religious soft power as a critical element in the citizenship tool.
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Pakistani Police Among Casualties in Multiple Islamist Terrorist Attacks Destabilizing the Country
November 17, 2021
Pakistani police suffered casualties in an attack perpetrated by local Islamic State (IS) members, part of a spate of recent destabilizing attacks by Islamist militant groups, including the outlawed Tehrik-I-Taliban that aims to impose sharia law in the nuclear, South Asian state.
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Suspected Jihadists Escalate War in Burkina Faso
November 17, 2021
Burkina Faso’s vulnerability to jihadists waging a low-level war was underscored this weekend with a high-causality attack against civilian and military targets, the latest assault by Islamist militants whose operations stretch across the entire Sahel region of Africa.
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Islamists Repress Speech Freedoms in Syria’s Idlib Province
November 16, 2021
Islamist authoritarianism is being rooted in Syria’s northwestern Idlib Province under the control of anti-Assad militants of the Hayat Tahrir al Sham, curbing all free speech forms including by deploying secret police to seek out criticism about living conditions and arbitrary imprisonment.
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Australian Parliament Considers Ban of Islamist Group
November 16, 2021
Australia’s Parliament is considering a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, a global Islamist militant group whose leaders and members were documented by Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI) in a local demonstration in New South Wales as using anti-Semitic hate speech and incitement to violence against Jews.