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Sharia Law Comes to Vermont Credit Union’s Lending Program
January 14, 2022
A credit union in the New England state of Vermont has announced the of sharia-compliant lending model designed to attract Muslims to the state’s housing market, with an imam from one of the state’s Islamic societies working with the credit union to develop financing options that comply with Islamic law.
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Suspect in Paris Attacks Defends Terrorism and Blames Foreign Policy
January 14, 2022
The suspect on trial in Paris for the Islamic State’s (IS) high-casualty attacks in the French capital in 2015 offered insight into Islamist extremist worldview, as he defended terrorism and war crimes as acceptable Islamic responses to French foreign policy, which he claimed as justification for the IS terrorist assault.
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Past Export of Radicalism Haunts Saudi and Emirati attempts at Islamic Moderation
January 10, 2022
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have undertaken shifts away from the fundamentalist Islamist approaches that were the the hallmarks of the two Gulf theocracies and their global exportation of Islamism, but evidence from Muslim-majority countries in South Asia and Islamic communities in Europe suggests that there has been no shift in the trajectory of radicalization that was long funded by the Wahhabi Gulf regimes.
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Islamist Radical Connection Revealed in Kazakhstan Unrest
January 10, 2022
Security authorities in Kazakhstan have identified Islamist radical links to the violent public protests that have destabilized the country since last week, with state officials revealing that combatants in Islamist extremist groups were among those who attacked government buildings in the escalating violence in the energy-rich Central Asian republic.
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Al-Shabaab Advances in Somalia Signal Islamist Gains
January 10, 2022
The vulnerabilities of the Horn of Africa to radical Islamist groups are being revealed by the steady advance of al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab in Somalia, where a weak state, political fragmentation, and the refocus of US and African Union to other crisis spots are creating permissive conditions for al-Shabaab’s gains towards imposing an Islamist regime.
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