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Coronavirus Exposes Islamic Regime Frailty, But May Postpone Change
March 18, 2020
The rapid spread of the coronavirus among citizens and the state’s Islamist leadership has laid bare the theocratic regime’s incompetence in meeting the challenges of the pandemic, a phenomenon that may hasten regime change but at a more sluggish pace.
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US Courts Sentence NY Woman to 13 Years for IS Bitcoin Scam
March 18, 2020
The US Department of Justice sentenced a New York woman to 13 years in prison for a bitcoin and cryptocurrency scam that defrauded credit cards and laundered money to supper IS cells abroad.
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British Court Find Islamist Guilty of Manchester Arena Terrorist Attack
March 18, 2020
A British court handed down a guilty verdict for one of the Libyan Islamist extremist perpetrators of the terrorist attack at the 2017 concert in the United Kingdom’s Manchester Arena.
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Experts Say Nigeria’s Boko Haram Leads Jihadists in Forcible Conscription of Women for Islamist Violence
March 16, 2020
According to international and regional terrorism experts, Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamist extremist group whose operations are now spread across West Africa, is leading jihadist groups in the recruitment and forcible conscription of women and girls for Islamist violence.
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Southeast Asia Shows Trends of Strong Growth in Islamic Fintech Industry
March 16, 2020
The growth in Islamic financial technology ("fintech") startups and venture capital firms in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia is pointing to the impact of sharia finance and capital in the Southeast Asian corridor of economically developed, population dense, technologically advanced countries with a very sizable and growing Muslim population.
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