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OIC Bank Chief Pushes UN to Increase Sharia Finance for Sustainable Development
July 21, 2015
The Chief Economist for the global Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's ("OIC") Islamic Development Bank pushed at the recent UN International Conference on Financing for Development for the mainstreaming and expansion of sharia-compatible/compliant financing instruments for new global sustainable development initiatives.
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OIC Chief Calls on Muslims Worldwide with Ramadan Message
July 21, 2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") called on Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadan by offering the world an Islamic model of tolerance and rejecting "voices that betray and smear Islam and equate it with extremism, violence and primitivism."
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Chattanooga Jihadi Attacker Showed Signs of Intentions
July 21, 2015
A review of the blog posts of Muhammed Youssuf Abdulazeez in the days before he committed a lethal jihadi attack against marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, shows his intentions to use violence in the name of strict Islamist precepts.
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Islamic State Militants Manufactured Chemical Weapons
July 21, 2015
Evidence from recent Islamic State ("IS") attacks in Syria and Iraq indicates that the Islamist terror group has developed capabilities for manufacturing and operationalizing chemical weapons.
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Pew Survey Shows Growing Popular Concern About Islamist Extremism
July 21, 2015
A newly released survey by the Pew Research Center indicates a worldwide increase in popular concerns about Islamist extremism and violence, with numbers highest in countries in the West and slowly rising in Muslim-majority countries.