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Liberal Berlin Mosque Elicits Islamist Condemnation
June 27, 2017
Official Sunni religious authorities in Egypt and Turkey have condemned a newly inaugurated, liberal mosque in Berlin that allows male-female joint prayer and invites participation from all Islamic sects in statements pressing German Muslims to stay away from the "depraved and un-Islamic" mosque.
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Attempted Attack on Grand Mosque Shakes Saudi Regime
June 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia's Islamist theocratic regime views a foiled suicide bombing attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca during Ramadan as part of multiple efforts by extremist Islamist groups to overthrow the Wahhabi regime because of its cooperation with the Western anti-Islamic State coalition.
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Islamist Sectarian Geopolitics Drive Qatar Crisis
June 27, 2017
The 13-point ultimatum imposed on Qatar by a Saudi-led alliance of Sunni Gulf States reveals the underlying Islamist sectarian geopolitics driving the crisis, going beyond the Sunni/Saudi and Shiite/Iran Islamist theocratic competition and extending to competition between the rival Sunni Islamist regimes of Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
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Hezbollah Leader Warns Israel of United Islamist Front
June 23, 2017
In the context of rising tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militant movement Hezbollah, the Islamist group's leader warned that a united front of Iran-backed Shiite Islamist states and movements from the Mideast to Southwest Asia would commit to a war against Israel.
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UAE Gas Case Shows Risks of Sharia Finance
June 23, 2017
The decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) energy giant Dana Gas to suspend payment on $700 million of debt on claims that the instruments no longer comply with sharia law raises alarm bells as investors face the prospect that "Islamic interpretation and religious standards" may now become a common justification to companies refusing to pay their debts.
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