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…he United Arab Emirates -- with its regional and international reach -- consider a new financial direction, such as the Islamic banking system as a substitute, even temporarily, to the current global economic system — which is currently deteriorating? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024944

the ""Arab spring"" turned into the ""Islamic winter"" – borders have vanished and centuries of conflicts between tribes and factions are erupting onto the surface.

such as the need for women to wear the Islamic headscarf and a disdain for alcohol. Turkish bureaucrats and businesspeople complain that embracing these practices to prove that one is a “good Muslim” has become a precondition for getting government promotions and contracts.

…” was somehow frustrating Arafat’s readiness to make peace. The Palestinian campaign of violence was getting worse. An Islamic Jihad car bomb near Mahaneh Yehudah market in Jerusalem injured nearly a dozen people and left two dead. Hamas blew up a school bus in one of the Gaza s...

…he day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Arafat’s own police force. The media had changed, too, in the 13 years since the first intifada, with the rise of...

…lt or reluctant Arafat was as a negotiating partner. If we waited, we’d end up having to deal with Islamists: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Oded Eran, the career diplomat whom I'd put in charge of frustrating, formal talks with the Palestinians in the months preceding the summit , sai...

…ver, is that what happens in Syria is of great concern to the whole region. Together with its two principal allies, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah, Syria is viewed with great hostility by Israel and with wary suspicion by the Un...

… The Iranian president's visit has deep historical significance, even if he came as a guest of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit. The picture of the two presidents embracing says to the world: Egypt is HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028734

…of 4000 Russian Jews to Israel. He reiterated the promise that, when the return was completed, there would be a massive Islamic attack on Jerusalem and “we will all rise up to Heaven” in an_ ecstatic disappearance. Jews, as long as they accepted Jesus as their Savior, were welcom...

…a terrorist are sufficient to permit the inference that he provided sup- port to al Qaeda directly or through Al Shamal Islamic Bank, BIF, or WAMY. Burnett Complaint 1975-76, 183-84, 196, 199, 230; Exec. Order 13224. IV. Conclusion and Order For the reasons explained above, Pri...

… an article that appeared in Rus al Yusef, an Egyptian publication, in August 1998. The unidentified author writes that Islamic aid organizations located in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, and Tajikistan provided funds and cover to terrorists. (See Federal Mot. to Supplement Record...

… made no grand policy statements. Mostly, he asked me questions: what were the prospects of Arafat reining in Hamas and Islamic Jihad? How were our relations going with King Hussein? What was my view of the chances of concluding a peace with Hafez al-Assad, despite his boycott of...

…n the two, this conflict CAN NOT be negotiated. Only one can survive not because we have declared “war” but because our Islamic Enemy has. That is, perhaps, the lesson we will most need to fully learn, one way or another. We will eventually hit a Turnaround Moment as a nation and...

…story of Iran's confrontation with the international community suggests that keeping it a crisis situation benefits the Islamic Republic. Ironically, it is the Western powers that have generated alarmist conditions. And then to escape the predicament of their own making, they off...

… Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary doctrine of velayat-e fagih (guardianship of the jurist), which holds that a Shiite Islamic cleric should serve as the supreme head of government, is a key source of conflict. The group is thus simultaneously committed to the decrees of Iranian...