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Pakistan Expands Support for Sharia Finance
December 30, 2016
Pakistan's government continues to expand incentives for banks that provide a widening range of Islamic financial products and resources in an effort to grow the sharia-compliant sector of the economy and to improve Pakistan's position in the global sharia-finance economy.
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Berlin Attack Highlights Radicalization Issues in Migration Crisis
December 30, 2016
The narrative of the Islamic State follower who perpetrated the recent Berlin Christmas market terrorist attack raises troubling policy questions about how EU authorities can deal effectively with the threat of jihadist violence associated with massive forced migration into Europe's asylum and free movement system.
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US Terror Financing Report Raises Red Flags
December 28, 2016
A report by the US House of Representatives terrorism financing task force has revealed multiple vulnerabilities in US intelligence sharing and banking and financial regulatory mechanisms for combating the global criminal activities that fund radical Islamist threats to America.
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Berlin Christmas Attack Is Consistent with IS Tactical Shift
December 21, 2016
Claims by the Islamic State (IS) of responsibility for the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin are consistent with the Islamist terror group's shift in jihadi focus and tactics, with the caliphate propaganda machine encouraging followers to perpetrate vehicular and knife attacks against soft civilian targets in Europe and America.
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Germany Threatens Websites with "Hate Speech" Sanctions
December 20, 2016
The Guardian reports that German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has warned social media websites and search engines that if they do not step up the deletion of "illegal hate speech" on their platforms, the German Government will push legislation substantially increasing fines for inaction and requiring them to set up mechanisms to clamp down on such speech.
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