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Is Malaysia ISIS’ Next Southeast Asian Hub?
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Is Malaysia ISIS’ Next Southeast Asian Hub?

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May 06, 2019
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Malaysia has so far avoided the scourge of the radical Islamic State, or ISIS, that has been suffered by its neighbors the Philippines and Indonesia. The country has seen just one ISIS-claimed attack, when a grenade thrown into a Kuala Lumpur nightclub injured eight people in June 2016. All major plots have been thwarted.

Yet fears of jihadist infiltrati…

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