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Al-Azhar Leadership Rejects Child Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation
June 24, 2019
At the conclusion of the first African Summit on child marriage and female genital mutilation, the deputy grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar University issued a religious ruling (fatwa) against child marriage and reiterated a previous ruling against female genital mutilation.
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Saudi Arabia Joins Global Money Laundering Watchdog
June 24, 2019
Last year's EU blacklisting of Saudi Arabia for violations of international standards related to money laundering and terrorism financing did not stop the Islamic theocratic kingdom from acceding to the Financial Action Task Force, the global watchdog that sets standards to combat international money laundering and associated financing for terrorist activities.
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Turkish Secularists Win Rerun of Istanbul Mayoral Elections
June 24, 2019
The victory of the secularist party candidate over the ruling Islamist party candidate in a rerun of elections for the mayoralty of Turkey's largest city Istanbul is widely seen as a vote of no confidence in the Islamist government's increasing political autocracy, corrupt governance, and economic mismanagement.
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Trial Reveals Growing Islamist Operations in US, Canada
June 24, 2019
The terrorism conviction in a New York federal court of an operative linked to the Iran-supported Lebanese Islamist extremist group Hezbollah was based on a trove of US law-enforcement data revealing Hezbollah’s robust intelligence gathering and operational planning reach for attacks on government targets and assassinations of Israelis in the US and Canada.
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OIC Expands West African Inroads
June 21, 2019
The Saudi Arabia-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is deepening its influence in West Africa, as Saudi Arabia is preparing Gambia to host the 57 member states’ annual leadership summit with a massive infrastructure and development grant.
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