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Israeli PM Says Intel Foiled Islamist Terror Attacks on NATO Soil
January 17, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned an audience of NATO member-state ambassadors about the ongoing threat of jihadi groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda to Western interests, revealing that his country’s intelligence service has prevented multiple Islamist terror plots aiming to bring about mass civilian casualties on European soil.
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Summit Portends Push to Islamicize African Economy
January 17, 2018
Islamic finance and business experts anticipate that this year's East Africa Islamic Economy Summit in Kenya will launch an expanded effort to make the region the leader in the Islamic digital economy and to center sharia compliant/compatible finance instruments as the main vehicles for the Continent's economic development and wealth generation.
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Authorities Investigate Arson at Two Kosher Stores in France
January 16, 2018
French authorities are investigating what is believed to be an arson attack on two kosher markets in a suburb of Paris, only weeks after they were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, on the third anniversary of a lethal terror attack by Islamic State followers on a kosher market in another Paris suburb.
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Afreximbank, OIC Expand Islamic Finance Footprint in Africa
January 16, 2018
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has raised an estimated $260 million in sharia-compliant funding to support trade and small-business growth in Africa, with funding coming from affiliate institutions of the Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
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IS Defeat Sparks Discussion of New Caliphate
January 16, 2018
The Islamic State's (IS) military defeat and demonstrated violence and excesses have spawned a renewed debate among "caliphate intellectuals" worldwide about the theological foundations and operational parameters of a renewed, improved, ideal caliphate.
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