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IMF Takes Closer Look at Risks of Islamic Finance
February 22, 2017
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is incorporating Islamic finance into its surveillance framework for monitoring and assessing its member-countries' economies, with particular emphasis on providing technical assistance and advice on the high-risk hybrid products that are a growing part of the $2 trillion-worth of sharia-compliant/compatible assets worldwide.
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IS Vows to Eliminate Coptic Christians
February 22, 2017
A new video from the Islamic State (IS) commits the jihadi group to exterminating all of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians, who are described as infidels and agents of "the West against Muslim nations."
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IS Prisoner Reports on Rapes, Sexual Enslavement
February 22, 2017
Reuters reports that an Islamic State (IS) militant currently in captivity with Iraqi Kurdish authorities has detailed the "normalcy" of mass rape and sexual enslavement of Yazidis and other minorities in the territories controlled by the caliphate militants.
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FATF Identifies Innovations to Fight Islamist Extremism
February 21, 2017
The recent Paris meetings of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body that develops policies to combat criminal finance of terrorism, identified the need for improved strategic partnerships among financial regulators and tech innovators to reduce funding flows to global Islamist extremists groups and activities.
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Maryland Mosque Memorializes Pakistani Murderer
February 21, 2017
A mosque in Pikesville, Maryland, celebrated a one-year memorial honoring as a holy man the assassin of a governor in Pakistan who had called for the abrogation of the country’s draconian Islamic blasphemy laws.
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