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Global Islamic Banking Assets Reach $1.69 Trillion
November 28, 2018
Data from the 21 countries comprising 95 percent of international financial activity in sharia-compliant/compatible assets and instruments indicate that global Islamic banking assets have now reached $1.69 trillion.
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Proposed Digital Exchange Aims to Grow Islamic FinTech Business
November 28, 2018
A Dubai-based firm has filed an application in Malta to license a new digital exchange aimed at growing the Islamic finance market by allowing for trade in sharia-compliant/compatible cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities.
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Asia Bibi Case Underscores Influence of Anti-Blasphemy Movement
November 20, 2018
Western governments’ rejection of asylum requests for Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy and now in hiding from the country's extremist Islamist groups, underscores the global influence of Islamist anti-blasphemy groups aiming to censor free speech in the name of religious tolerance.
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CAIR Plays Islamophobia Card to Censor Cartoon
November 14, 2018
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) succeeded in pressuring a public library in Texas to remove from its shelves Holy Terror, a graphic-novel story of comic superheroes fighting Al Qaeda in New York City, using social media to frame the comic as “Islamophobic.”
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Dutch Agency Reports on Turkish Support for Jihad in Europe
November 07, 2018
According to a report by the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, NATO member-state Turkey is giving aid and comfort to Islamic State (IS) militants planning jihadi operations in Europe in exchange for IS support of Turkey’s Islamist government and war against the Kurds.
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