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Chinese Initiative Bolsters Sharia Finance in Eurasia
March 13, 2019
The impact of sharia-compliant finance across Eurasia continues to grow through funding of an increasing number of infrastructure and development projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in which almost half of the participant countries are Muslim-majority and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states.
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Iran’s Judiciary Sentences Rights Lawyer to Whipping, Imprisonment
March 13, 2019
An Iranian judge has sentenced an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and Sakharov Prize winner to 148 lashes and 38 years in prison for her alleged crimes of spying and spreading propaganda against the country’s theocratic regime.
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Indonesia’s Largest Islamic Group Critiques Islamist Extremism
March 13, 2019
The Indonesian Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has critiqued the term kafir (infidel) to describe non-Muslims as an Islamist extremist expression, highlighting NU’s pushback against growing jihadist activities and political Islamism in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
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IS Wife Supports Rape of Yazidi Prisoners of War
March 12, 2019
In a recent interview, the wife of an Islamic State (IS) fighter proclaimed that the Quran supports the Islamist fighters' rights to enslave and rape Yazidi women prisoners as property of the caliphate.
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Malaysian Receives 10-Year Sentence for “Blasphemy” on Facebook
March 12, 2019
Malaysian authorities have jailed an unidentified citizen for 10 years under the country's blasphemy laws for insulting Islam and its Prophet Muhammed in social-media postings considered a "misuse of communications networks" under the multi-cultural country's expanding laws to limit "anti-religious activity."
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