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Strong Growth Trends Projected in 2022 for Global Islamic FinTech
January 19, 2022
The steady expansion of sharia principles into global financial markets and practices is reflected in the strong growth projections for 2022 in the Islamic FinTech industry, with particular areas of sharia-compliant/compatible services and norms projected in Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries pushing digital banking, ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) investment.
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Ministers Highlight Islamic Logic of Pakistan-Turkey Security Cooperation
January 17, 2022
The Ministers of the Interior for the two Islamist authoritarian regimes of Pakistan and Turkey affirmed that their shared perspective on the “issues faced by the worldwide Muslim community (umma)” will define bilateral cooperation on security issues, including human smuggling, narcotics trafficking, and migration, which have a Eurasian scope and impact.
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Jihadists Continue Destabilization in African Horn With Latest Al-Shabaab Attack
January 17, 2022
Jihadism continued to destabilize the geopolitically critical African Horn region with a multi-casualty car bomb explosion by Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab in Somalia’s capital city, with the attack signaling the jihadi group’s response to the government’s recent announcement about scheduling national elections.
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OIC Touts Program Accomplishments on Islamic Tolerance and Gender Rights
January 17, 2022
The head of the global, multilateral Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) whose charter commits the 57-member states to upholding Islamic law, convened the preparatory meetings for the upcoming session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers and touted the sharia-promoting entity’s accomplishments related to gender rights and tolerance.
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Islamism A Core Component of Turkey’s Economic Implosion
January 17, 2022
According to the Westminster Institute Politcal Islamist discourse and objectives are at the core of NATO-member Turkey’s economic implosion, as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes anti-Semitic arguments to explain global interest rate policy related to inflation and uses Islamist foreign policy adventurism that has contributed to he drain of the country’s treasury.