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Malaysia Becoming Global Islamic Finance Hub
March 23, 2021
The 2020-2021 Global Islamic Economy Report shows Malaysia consolidating its trending role as a global hub for sharia-compatible/compliant finance, especially within the framework of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), placing the country also as a fintech (financial technology) and Islamic economy leader within ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).
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IS Uses Turkey for Recruitment & Human Trafficking
March 23, 2021
Police and media reports have revealed that IS militants are using Turkey as a safe haven for ongoing recruitment of Islamist fighters, crossing the border between the NATO member-country and Syria, to conduct trafficking and enslavement of women and girls abducted from Syria, and cyber-financing of IS activities.
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New Book Details IS Strategy for US Activity
March 17, 2021
The recently published Homegrown: ISIS in America by terrorism experts from the UK's King's College War Studies Department presents meticulous data and analysis indicating that the Islamist terror group's strategy for engagement within America does not rely on growth and expansion of domestic cells, but instead, uses cyber technologies for online radicalization and provocation of lone-wolf violence.
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Swiss Referendum on Burqa Ban Evokes Backlash from Islamic Groups
March 17, 2021
Swiss voters narrowly approved a ban on facial coverings in public, evoking strong condemnation from the country’s Federation of Islamic Organizations and Central Council of Muslims, which argued that the ban targets the Islamic burqa and therefore discriminated against the country’s Muslim population.
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Turkey's News Reporters Attack Free Speech Inside U.S.
March 17, 2021
A media team from Turkey's state Anadolu News Agency (ANA) attempted to silence speech and media freedoms domestically in the United States by badgering the president of U.S.-based advocacy group Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) at his New Jersey home after the organization paid for a billboard in New York City’s Times Square that reads “STOP ERDOGAN.”
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