The UK Treasury is moving to open the way for Islamic sukuk bonds to be issued in the UK this year. Under legislation submitted to Parliament today, sukuk would effectively be treated similarly to conventional bonds.
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January 23rd, 2010
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January 23rd, 2010
The Treasury has introduced measures in parliament to support Islamic finance and the issuance of corporate sukuk within the UK.
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January 23rd, 2010
Last week, the Department for Communities and Local Government announced that it was lifting its ban on Whitehall contact with the Muslim Council of Britain, the self-proclaimed umbrella group of British Muslims.
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January 22nd, 2010
Bailout bank's prize coveted to hype homosexual proms, co-ed bathrooms.
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January 22nd, 2010
The BMA has warned that any move to permit physician assisted suicide could wreck the doctor-patient relationship, as politicians in Scotland begin debating whether the law should be changed.
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January 22nd, 2010
The Telegraph reports that the National Association of Muslim Police has attacked government policy on countering Islamic extremism.
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January 22nd, 2010
Geert gives a speech recalling Jefferson among others.
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January 22nd, 2010
Amid the desolation and despair of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake, one man in Port-au-Prince has quietly been urging the flow of incoming aid workers just to get with succouring those in need, regardless of all the obstacles and difficulties and reports of looting and violence.
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January 22nd, 2010
Sermons should do more to en?courage a change of lifestyle, the director of the College of Preachers, Paul Johns, said this week.
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January 21st, 2010
A bill aiming to give terminally ill people the right to die has been published at the Scottish Parliament.