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German Court Denies Islamic Lessons in Public Schools
November 20, 2017
A German court has ruled against the application by two of the country's Muslim Federations to have Islamic religious lessons introduced into the public school curriculum, raising questions about how to provide legal designation as a religious association to the country's religiously decentralized community of four-plus-million Muslim citizens.
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OIC Takes Annual Halal Expo to Turkey
November 20, 2017
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is sponsoring the 5th Annual Halal Expo in Turkey this month as the "World Halal Summit," bringing together heads of state and private and public sector stakeholders from the OIC's 57 member-states in a platform aimed to position Turkey as a global center of the $1.5 trillion Islamic finance industry.
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Iranian Support Leads to Resurgent Al-Qaeda
November 15, 2017
As the Islamic State’s last strongholds in Syria fall, a resurgent al-Qaeda is now positioned with operational capacity from East Africa to Southwest Asia, enabled by two decades of support from the Iranian deep state that now amounts to global Sunni and Shiite networks of Islamist ideologies and jihadi synergies.
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Islamist Sectarian War Shifts from Syria to Afghanistan
November 15, 2017
With the return to Afghanistan of thousands of Iranian-trained Shiite shock troops that fought against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, Sunni-Shiite sectarian tensions tensions are already rising as Saudi Arabia supports Sunni extremist groups such as the Taliban and the instability of Islamist sectarianism spreads across regional boundaries from the Near East to Southwest Asia.
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Maltese Finance Authorities Continue Islamic Finance Push
November 15, 2017
The Malta Financial Services Authority is preparing an Islamic sovereign bond offering as part of the government’s plan to bolster the Mediterranean state’s position as an EU hub for the $2.7 billion sharia finance industry.
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