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Bahraini Banking Leaders Push Islamic Finance in Africa
October 09, 2017
Executives in the Bahraini Islamic wholesale financial institution Al Baraka Banking Group are pushing public and private sector members at the World Economic Forum to support sharia-compliant/compatible finance as the preferred mechanism to promote the G20 Africa Partnership to expand infrastructure, employment, and foreign investment in Africa.
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Saudi Wahhabi Fundamentalists May Face Broader Challenge
October 09, 2017
If the Saudi Arabian monarchy follows through on its recent announcement to allow women the legal right to drive, this change may well usher in a broader challenge to the unchecked power of the Islamist fundamentalist religious caste's use of Wahhabism to impede moves towards sociopolitical tolerance and pluralism in the Kingdom.
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Advocates Criticize Bulgaria’s Anti-Islamist Proposals
October 09, 2017
Religious freedom advocates and diverse religious communities in Bulgaria are pushing back against legislative proposals in Bulgaria to criminalize support for sharia law and jihad and to ban full-face religious coverings, underscoring the complexities of legal approaches to countering the spread of Islamist radicalism.
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American IS Fighters Raise Legal Questions
October 09, 2017
US officials are examining the case of an American citizen detained in Iraq as a captured Islamic State (IS) fighter to determine the judicial process applicable to Americans apprehended as IS combatants in Iraq and Syria.
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Denmark Will Ban Full Face Coverings
October 09, 2017
The Danish Parliament has voted to restrict the burqa, niqab, and other Islamic full face coverings in public spaces, joining a growing number of EU member-states that ban public "face masking."
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