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World Bank Promotes Islamic Finance Project in Turkey
September 14, 2016
The World Bank has published a story touting its contributions to Turkey's "Innovative Access to Finance Project," which uses a finance model that corresponds with Islamic law to provide funding to small and medium enterprises in the country.
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Luxembourg Minister: EU Should Expel Hungary for Migration Stance
September 13, 2016
Die Welt reports that Luxembourg's foreign affairs minister Jean Asselborn, accusing Hungary of treating refugees like "wild animals," has called for a change in EU treaties to permit the expulsion of the country from the bloc for building fences to exclude migrants.
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Clinton Campaign Reaches out to American Muslims as Key Vote
September 13, 2016
Responding to polling and survey data suggesting that Muslim Americans could be a key voting bloc in crucial swing states in the upcoming US election, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has "embarked on unprecedented outreach" to attract this bloc estimated to account for two-plus percent of the US population.
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Police Casualty Highlights Re-Talibanization of Afghanistan
September 13, 2016
The murder of a prominent Afghan police chief by a Taliban bomb blast highlighted the fact that, 15 years after the US invasion of Afghanistan to root out the al-Qaeda presence that coordinated the 9/11 attacks against America, the hardline Islamist Taliban has recaptured large parts of the South Asian country known as a safe haven for multiple global jihadi groups.
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Hajj Controversy Spotlights Globalizing Sunni-Shiite Tensions
September 13, 2016
Shiite Iran's public challenge to Sunni Saudi Arabia's religious rights and competence to manage the Islamic hajj, the annual pilgrimage made by millions of Muslims worldwide to Mecca, amplifies escalating tensions within Islam between Shiites and Sunnis and highlights intra-Sunni disagreements over Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi extremist interpretation and export of Islamism.
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