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Egypt's Al-Azhar Under Pressure for Curriculum Reform to Reject Islamist Violence
June 15, 2015
The Egyptian government continues to press the leadership of Cairo's Al-Azhar university and mosque, considered the world's most prestigious and authoritative Sunni intellectual centers of learning, to implement a timely curriculum reform that would eliminate exhortations to violence and intolerance from textbooks and training whose influence extends to Muslim communities around the world.
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Syria's Leading Mufti Implicates Turkey in Radical Islamists' Abduction of Christian Hierarchs
June 15, 2015
The Supreme Mufti of Syria has gone public with charges that the abduction of the country's two leading Orthodox Christian hierarchs two years ago by Islamist radicals was carried out with the support of Turkey's intelligence authorities.
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Islamic State Turns to Turkey
June 15, 2015
The inauguration of a Turkish-language publication by the propaganda arm of the Islamic State ("IS") groups points to the jihadi Islamist group's concern that Turkey remains loyal to the IS vision of a global caliphate and calls on all Muslims in Turkey to reject democracy as incompatible with the caliphate.
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Sharia Finance Giving Muslim Religious Leaders Influence in Global Finance
June 11, 2015
The move by Pakistan's Securities and Exchange Commission to create a sharia advisory board dominated by Muslim scholars mirrors the globalizing trend toward centralized regulation of sharia-compliant/compatible finance guided by economic principles of Islamism.
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Sharia Finance and Development Deepen Asia-Mideast Ties
June 11, 2015
Islamic finance is gaining strong support in Asia's leading financial centers, which are competing aggressively to expand trade and commercial ties with Mideast, in order to access massive sharia-based/compliant financial instruments and capital to support colossal infrastructure and development projects.
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