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Islamic Finance Summit Places Focus on Resilience, Global Growth
June 20, 2017
The October 2017 summit of the Islamic Finance Services Board, a standard-setting agency of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Abu Dhabi will focus on reinvigorating sharia finance growth within the current climate of global geopolitical uncertainty and on maximizing new financial technologies for the resilience of sharia-complaint capital markets and products.
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Al-Shabaab Sustains African Jihadi Campaign
June 20, 2017
Al-Shabaab continues to live up to its designation by security experts as Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group with its second high-casualty attack against civilians within a week in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, as part of the group's unrelenting jihadi war to impose sharia law throughout East Africa.
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Turkey's Mosque Construction Reflects Islamization
June 20, 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to spearhead a massive mosque construction program across the NATO member-state, using public-private partnerships to advance the Islamization of the country's economy, society, and culture.
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UN Reports on Surge in Civilian Casualties in Raqqa
June 19, 2017
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has warned that a precipitous spike in civilian casualties due to the escalation in airstrikes by the US-backed Arab and Kurdish forces fighting to capture the Islamic State's (IS) Syrian capital city of Raqqa is producing huge refugee outflows and internally displaced persons from northeastern Syria.
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Experts: Policies to Counter Islamism Need an Overhaul
June 19, 2017
Experts in security strategy are seeking a paradigm shift in policies to counter Islamist extremism away from the overwhelming emphasis on countering violence and terrorism toward a primary focus on policies that reject the notion of Islamist partners whose theological commitments are incompatible with pluralism and rule of law.
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