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Qatar Accelerating Sharia Banking in Non-Muslim Countries
March 10, 2021
Islamic banking unitary experts are pointing to Qatar’s Islamic theocracy as a key player in the accelerated expansion of sharia-based banking to non-Muslim-majority countries, highlighting the importance of standardized sharia compliance platform and the separation of sharia and conventional transactions.
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Debate: Repatriation & Reintegration of IS Prisoners
March 10, 2021
Policy and political debates about the status and threat level of Islamic State (IS) fighters and families in Syrian and Iraqi detention camp are beginning to focus on lessons learned from disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs applied to other violent extremist groups.
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UN: Taliban Consolidating Power Over Jihadists in Central Asia
March 10, 2021
The UN Security Council has released a report that the Taliban has consolidated its control inside Afghanistan over the local al Qaeda affiliate, as well as within key jihadist groups operating across the geopolitically crucial states of Central Asia, highlighting the ineffectiveness of the Doha Peace Agreement brokered by the US for a Taliban-Kabul government power-sharing arrangement.
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Sharia Banking to Expand in Australia's Mortgage Market
March 09, 2021
Brokernews.com reports that the new partnership between one of Australia's largest mortgage aggregators and the country's premier Islamic financial services firm is expected to generate major growth in the country's sharia-compliant mortgage finance market within the context of robust demographic and immigration trends for the Oceanic Continent.
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Islamists Continue Destabilization with Latest Mali Attacks
March 08, 2021
Reuters reports that Islamist militants continue to destabilize West Africa and have been linked to the drive-by murder of nine civilians in a central Mali town, where the mayor linked the attack as a continuation of a recent assault on a government military outpost.