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Director of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University
Lorenzo Vidino
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The grave of H.E. Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid in Jombang, East Java. The inscription on his tombstone, "Here Rests a Humanist," is written in Indonesian, Arabic, English, and Chinese. (Humanitarian Islam)
General Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama and Co-founder of the Humanitarian Islam movement
C. Holland Taylor
Co-Founder of the Humanitarian Islam movement
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Nigerian soldiers patrol on October 12, 2019, after gunmen suspected of belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group raided the village of Tungushe, killing a soldier and three residents. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
Libyan protesters gather outside the offices of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Party of Justice and Construction, in the Libyan capital Tripoli on July 27, 2013 (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images)
Senior Visiting Associate, Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London
Alison Pargeter
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December 11, 2019 Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
Independent Research Consultant and Counter-Terrorism Analyst
Brenda Githing'u
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Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants hold flags and shout slogans during the funeral procession of five men who were killed in clashes with Turkish army in the Syrian province of Idlib. (Marwan Naamani via Getty Images)
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