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Moody’s Predicts Exponential Islamic Banking Growth in Africa
September 26, 2018
Credit rating group Moody's Investor Service projects that Islamic financial and banking services will experience rapid growth across the African continent over the next five years, given the cultural affinities of sharia-compliant/compatible finance with the estimated 40-percent Muslim population in Africa.
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Afghanistan Faces Challenge of Deradicalizing Child Soldiers
September 26, 2018
The Afghanistan government’s long war against the Taliban and, more recently, the Islamic State has produced the need to deradicalize the child soldiers brainwashed in Islamist schools and trained to support jihadi operations.
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Hajj Pilgrimage Funds Islamist Extremism of Saudi Arabia
September 26, 2018
The hajj pilgrimage that is considered a religious obligation by Muslims has brought the Islamist theocratic regime of Saudi Arabia billions of dollars in income used to perpetuate the kingdom’s Wahhabist extremist ideology and to provide material support for jihadist activities worldwide.
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Time Horizon Is Key to US Defeat of Islamist Extremism
September 19, 2018
Al-Qaeda’s long-term worldview has been crucial to its resilience in an asymmetrical war waged against American values and interests, as Islamist militants calculate their advantage lies in the impatience of US policymakers and the American public for a long war against the ideas and activities of global jihad.
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US Charges Indiana Woman with Support to IS
September 19, 2018
An Elkhart, Indiana, woman charged with providing material support to the Islamic State (IS) is claiming that her husband coerced her to travel into IS territory in Syria as she wanted to protect her children.
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