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Muslim Brotherhood Needs To Be The Next Target After Iran's Mullahs

The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization aiming to institute sharia-based governance, has come out against the US-Israeli military operation targeting the Shiite Iranian regime, despite the Sunni-Shia divide that originated in 632 CE over who should succeed Islam's Prophet Mohammed
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The Falling Popularity Of The Sanseito, Party Rewriting Japanese History

However, starting in August 2025, the party’s ratings began to decline, while the popularity of the widely criticized largest conservative force, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), began its rise that same month. In this article, we will examine the reasons behind these events
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Stop The Burial Of Truth In The Case Of Amri Che Mat

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: We call upon your government to stop the attempts to bury the truth in the case of Amri Che Mat who was enforced disappeared on November 24, 2016, in Kangar, Perlis, seemingly targeted for being a Shia Muslim.
 
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Saudi Arabia Has Most To Lose If US Strikes Go Sideways

WASHINGTON, US: Since November, the Houthis in Yemen have launched scores of missile and drone attacks on vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Red Sea in reaction to the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza. Ansarallah, the dominant Houthi militia, also hijacked the Japanese-operated and partly Israeli-owned Galaxy Leader on November 19.
 
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Iraq Can't Hold Off Gaza's Spillover Much Longer

WASHINGTON, US: The Iraqi army captain who assassinated King Faisal II and his family in 1958 claimed, “All I did was remember Palestine, and the trigger on the machine-gun just set itself off.”
 
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The Hezbollah Wildcard

WASHINGTON, US: The Israeli strike on Hamas’s political leadership on Tuesday threw wide open a new stage of escalation in the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. 
 
 
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Non-Practising Muslim Malays



BANGKOK, Thailand: An unknown, but not an inconsequential number of Malays don’t actively practice Islam, but see themselves as Muslims. These nominal Muslims only forcibly follow Islamic rituals in public, or disappear from public areas during weekly events like Friday prayers. They don’t fast during Ramadan, can’t read the Quran, and may not know the ritual of prayer.
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Iran: Systematic Persecution Of Baha'is


NEW YORK, U.S.--On June 15, 2022, Samin Ehsani, a follower of the Baha'i faith and an activist for children's rights in Iran was arrested and transferred to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. 

 
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