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Sharia Law and OIC Presence Expand in West Africa
June 15, 2016
The government of the Gambia's prohibition of music during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the upcoming Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit there will likely reinforce the influence of sharia law in the country.
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OIC Condemns Israel Appointment to UN Legal Committee
June 15, 2016
The 57-member-state Islamic bloc group the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has condemned the appointment of Israel to head the UN Legal Committee and denounced Israel as a "regime that violates international law."
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OIC Plans Strategic Expansion of Sharia Trade and Finance Activities
June 15, 2016
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is planning an aggressive, globalized expansion of its mandate to promote trade among its 57 member states using the Islamic Development Bank and the Islamic Trade Finance Corporation to promote more than $7 billion in sharia-compliant financing.
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FRA Takes on European "Hate Speech"
June 15, 2016
At a meeting of the EU’s High Level Group on combating racism and xenophobia in Brussels, Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Michael O'Flaherty asserted that countries must take a "zero tolerance" approach toward hate speech in the EU in order to promote an "open and tolerant society."
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IS Follower Kills French Police Employees
June 15, 2016
Fears over terrorism and foreign fighters have resurfaced in France as a French citizen who pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State and had been convicted of working in a jihadi recruitment network killed a police officer and his partner, also a police employee, with a knife in Magnanville.
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