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Anti-Semitism Crystallizes as Plank of Turkey’s Islamist Government
January 02, 2018
Anti-Semitic discourse and incitement and the Islamization of Mideast history have crystallized as core domestic and foreign policy planks of Turkey’s Islamist government’s critique of US and Israeli positions on the status of Jerusalem.
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OIC Partners with Afreximbank to Expand Sharia Finance
January 02, 2018
The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, an arm of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is teaming up with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to provide $100 million in sharia-compliant/compatible financing for trade and small and medium-sized businesses across Africa.
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IRGC Threatens to Crush Iranian Protests
January 02, 2018
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military vanguard charged with protecting the country’s Islamic theocracy, has warned protesters it will use all means to crush citizen demonstrations demanding economic improvements and has blamed the middle-class-led dissent on a foreign plot to overthrow the Islamist regime.
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Iraq Estimates $100 Billion in Post-Caliphate Costs
January 02, 2018
The Iraqi government estimates $100 billion as the colossal financial cost of reconstruction in the areas of the country liberated from the Islamic State, but the costs of the caliphate also include endemic corruption and seething Islamic sectarianism, creating ripe conditions for the regrowth of Islamist terrorism.
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Egyptian IS Affiliate Targets Coptic Christians in Another Deadly Attack
January 02, 2018
Islamist militants loyal to the Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) perpetrated yet another lethal attack targeting Coptic Christians, hitting a Coptic-owned shop and church in Cairo.