For Islamic finance to really take off, France will need to embrace not only the less visible wholesale banking side but the highly visible retail services too.
In the News
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September 11th, 2009
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September 11th, 2009
Though the world marks today as the most infamous calendar date of the year, perhaps in retrospect the murderous hijacking of four passenger airliners had less historical significance than a series of cartoons of Mohammed drawn by a few Danes four years later.
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September 11th, 2009
Young Muslim men clash with police after gathering to confront an anti-Islamist organisation which had threatened to hold a demonstration outside a new Harrow mosque.
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September 11th, 2009
A teenager faces seven years in prison after being ordered to stand trial for organising her own home abortion in the first such prosecution in Australia in over half a century.
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September 11th, 2009
Euthanasia deaths are going up in Belgium, now up to about 2% of all deaths in Flanders.
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September 10th, 2009
A number of churches in Florida are boycotting Pepsi products to send a message to companies involved in 'anti-family' activities.
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September 10th, 2009
We have our own rapists, pedophiles, and wife beaters in the West. But our societies brand them as criminals and punish them. How unlucky to live in a culture that has not evolved this far.
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September 10th, 2009
Children as young as five should be taught about explicit sex acts, abortion and homosexuality, according to controversial guidelines drawn up by the UN.
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September 10th, 2009
Cases of euthanasia in Belgium's Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has shown.
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September 10th, 2009
Children as young as five should be taught about explicit sex acts, according to guidelines from the United Nations.