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OIC, Iran Push Sharia Finance in West Africa
August 03, 2016
The Saudi Arabia-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's financial institutions are making a strong push for the expansion of sharia-compatible/compliant financial markets in West Africa, as OIC member Iran moves aggressively to position the country as a key player in sovereign Islamic bond (sukuk) finance on the African Continent.
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IS European Infrastructure Serves as Global Strategic Model
August 03, 2016
According to a prison interview with a former Islamic State member from Germany, IS has built an extensive European infrastructure that is a model for IS's global operations strategy, including sophisticated recruitment, media, intelligence, and military divisions designed to grow the extremist Islamist organization and to carry out violent jihadi operations.
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Turkey Targets US Military with Terrorism Accusations
August 03, 2016
In a newly filed criminal complaint, Turkey's Islamist government accused the US of supporting terrorism and charged that senior US officials, including the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, were directly involved in the coup plot allegedly masterminded by supporters of US-based Fetullah Gulen.
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French Lose Faith in Leaders on Islamic Extremism
August 02, 2016
An article in The Economist highlights how the French people, who have endured 14 terrorist attacks in the last two years, are rapidly losing faith in their government institutions to protect them against assaults by Islamic extremists.
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Saudi Arabia Exports Radical Islamism Across South Asia
August 02, 2016
Saudi Arabia's longstanding policy of exporting radical Islamism has had dangerous effects in South Asia, where the growth of internationally active jihadi cells and domestic persecution against religious minorities is skyrocketing, while the Saudi state's dependence on the country's Wahhabi religious establishment is putting the country at risk of internal acts of jihadist violence.
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