International Features

Saudi Arabia ‘has one of world’s lowest bank fraud rates’

RIYADH: Bank fraud is low in the Kingdom compared to rising rates in other countries, Saudi Banks, the nation’s association of bankers, said on Thursday. While money transfer fraud, ATM and online banking fraud have become a worldwide threat, prudent banking measures meant the country had one of the world’s least-registered rates of financial fraud, a Saudi Banks spokesman said. …

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The higher objectives of the Shariah

After studying the Shariah extensively, scholars derived that all the laws of Shariah fulfil one of the five objectives, benefits or wisdoms: Protection of the Religion (حفظ الدين) Protection of Life (حفظ النفس) Protection of Lineage / Progeny (حفظ النسل) Protection of Intellect (حفظ العقل) Protection of Property / Wealth (حفظ المال) However, they agreed that these “Objectives of Shariah” …

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“Reforming” Islam to suit popular culture is a bad idea

If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything These days it is impossible not to hear calls for Islām to “modernise”, but what does this mean in practice and is the call for a reformation of Islām beneficial to Muslims? Could the Government be seeking to weaken the social cohesion of religious groupings in the UK from the …

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Clinton supporters reject Israel settlements proposal – By Eric Bradner, CNN

Hillary Clinton slams Donald Trump for 'bigotry' in front of pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC - LoneWolf

Orlando, Florida (CNN) – Hillary Clinton supporters rejected an effort Saturday to add a call for "an end to occupations and illegal settlements" in Palestinian territories into the Democratic platform. Clinton's backers argued that the current language in the party's platform, calling for negotiations for a two-state solution in Israel to give Palestinians a homeland, are enough and that going …

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BDS is a war Israel can’t win – by Stanley L Cohen

Israel's apologists would call the BDS campaign "immoral", but the slander is laughably false. Israeli think-tank fellow Yossi Klein Halevi, writing recently in the Los Angeles Times would have American readers believe that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is “immoral” and threatens the peace of "the region's only intact society", while simultaneously boasting it can't touch Israel's health and …

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