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UN Event Seeks Legislative Action on "Violent Extremism"
July 26, 2016
Emphasizing the need for "soft power" to prevent worldwide "violent extremism" at an event hosted in part by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and other speakers called for parliamentarians to help address extremism, mainly through policies instituting "mandatory education on culture of peace."
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Syrian Refugee Suicide Bomber in Germany Was IS Loyalist
July 26, 2016
Evidence has emerged that a young Syrian refugee in Germany who detonated a suicide bomb injuring 15 people in a US military garrison town was an Islamic State loyalist, spiking security concerns about links among Germany's refugee policy, Islamist terrorism, and youth radicalization.
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US Sues Township over Alleged Anti-Muslim Zoning Law
July 26, 2016
Echoing claims of religious discrimination from a pending lawsuit on the same issue filed by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice against Bensalem Township in Pennsylvania alleges that the township's denial of a zoning variance to permit the construction of a mosque violates federal law.
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Sharia Finance Investors Eye Italian Markets
July 26, 2016
Islamic finance investors aiming to diversify in European markets are reaching out to Italian financial experts to explore sharia-compliant changes to Italy's financial regulatory structures, part of a larger discussion in Italy about sharia investment as a possible antidote to Italy's economic woes in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU.
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Nigerian Court Approves Hijab in Public Schools
July 26, 2016
In the latest legal ruling in a controversial debate relating to the use by followers of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram of headscarves to conceal suicide bombs in attacks in Nigeria, the country's Court of Appeals in Lagos state overturned a 2013 ban that prohibited Muslim girls from wearing the hijab headscarf in public schools.
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