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Islamic Finance Sustains Robust Global Growth
July 17, 2017
The systematic internationalization of sharia finance products and services by Islamic finance industry leaders, with particular focus on growing a non-Islamic customer base, accounts for the projected robust growth in the nearly $1.9 trillion sharia-compliant/compatible marketplace.
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Qatar Is Magnet for Competing Islamists
July 17, 2017
Critics charge that the tiny Persian Gulf Kingdom of Qatar's policy of economic cosmopolitanism, through which it has created an outsized global financial footprint, has produced an open-door approach to competing Islamist leaders and groups that has aggravated Islamist extremism and violence.
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OIC Condemns Israel for Mosque Shutdown
July 17, 2017
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli government's decision to temporarily cut off access to the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in the aftermath of violence at the site, characterizing the decision as blatant attack on holy places and religious freedoms of Palestinian Muslims.
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Report Reveals Ambivalent Turkey-IS Relationship
July 17, 2017
Experts warn that a new report by NATO-member Turkey's Interior Ministry offering extensive information on the country's battle against the Islamic State (IS) contains underlying evidentiary details of the country's leniency and collusion in its relationship with the Islamist jihadi entity.
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IS Military Defeat Raises Foreign Fighter Threat
July 17, 2017
Western security experts anticipate that the military defeat of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate in Iraq and Syria will cause a spike in terror attacks and Islamist recruiting efforts by "frustrated foreign fighters" in the West who no longer have a central caliphate destination.