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Global Islamic Organization Slams U.S. for Islamophobia
February 18, 2015
The 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") slammed the United States for "rising Islamophobia" and a climate of hatred toward Muslims, following the recent homicide of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina in what police have concluded was a dispute over a parking space.
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UN Takes Aim at ISIS Finance Networks to Stop Islamist Terror
February 18, 2015
The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution aimed at choking off Islamic State ("IS") funding by imposing sanctions and authorizing the possible use of force against states that enable IS in oil smuggling, antiquities trafficking, and negotiating kidnap ransoms.
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Controversy Swirls over Renowned Islamic University's Mixed Signals on ISIS
February 16, 2015
Al-Azhar University in Egypt, internationally renowned as the authoritative intellectual voice of mainstream Sunni Islam, is at the center of an increasingly intense controversy among scholars of Islam for the university leadership's mixed signals about support versus rejection of the extremist religious ideology and programmatic violence of the Islamic State ("IS").
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OIC Calls for Blasphemy Law Seemingly Exempt Islam
February 16, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") is using the recent terror attacks by Muslim gunmen against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to lobby the United Nations to pass a global blasphemy law to criminalize speech and press deemed "insulting to religion," but the OIC perspective seems to exempt Islam, whose core texts curse Christians as infidels, refer to crosses as idols, and use defamatory language towards Christian beliefs and persons.
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Russia Turning to Islamic Finance to Mitigate Effects of Western Sanctions
February 16, 2015
In an effort to mitigate the negative effects of sanctions on Russia by the United States and Europe imposed because of the crisis in Ukraine, Russian banks are moving to expand access to Islamic finance and to grow their expertise in sharia-compliant/compatible instruments.
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