FOUNDATION OF ISLAMIC FINANCE ISF 1101 SEMESTER 2 2013/2014 DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE IN SINGAPORE INTRODUCTION Singapore or officially known as the Republic of Singapore is an island city-state which situated in the Southeast Asia specifically lies off the southern tip of Malaysia peninsular. The total area of Singapore is 716.1 square kilometres or 270 square miles and it accommodates approximately 5‚599‚200 citizens and 823‚082 of them are consists of Muslims
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Back in the spring of 2011 Syria began a brutal civil war that crippled the infrastructure leaving 3 main factions fighting for power. The United States decided to intervene and support the Syrian Rebel Army in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against the people of Syria. If this were in fact accurate and America’s only reason for uniting forces with them was to overthrow a tyrannical leader‚ then I believe America would have been in accordance with the
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Justice Versus Mercy - King Lear The struggle to live a life that balances justice and mercy dates back to the beginning of human civilization. Ever since we developed the ability to document our thoughts and ideas‚ we have written about the need to make people pay for their actions‚ or grant them forgiveness for their mistakes. Although both are essential to human civilization‚ I will make the point in this essay that mercy must take precedence over justice if we wish to prosper. Shakespeare
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League against Syria “to pressure it to stop its crackdown against antigovernment protesters.” These included a travel ban to prevent senior Syrian officials from traveling to other Arab countries and a call to freeze assets related to President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The League also called on Arab central banks to monitor transfers to Syria. Somalia has also been part of the league commissions formed to investigate and report on human rights violations in member states. Somalia has also
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intervention need to explain how staying the current course—hoping that diplomacy might work when it has not for nearly a year—is likely to resolve an increasingly deadly civil war. There was a bit of wishful thinking going on that Syria’s president‚ Bashar Assad‚ might somehow be persuaded to stop the killing and negotiate in good faith with an opposition that‚ for its part‚ wants nothing less than to see him dead. A diplomatic solution would obviously be preferable—if it were possible. A military coup
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will be fragmented into seventy-three sects‚ and all of them will be in the Hellfire except one‚" and both Sunni and Shia claim to be the rightful leaders." The current conflict in Iraq is fuelled by sectarian rivalries too‚ which embattled President Bashar al-Assad and his family members of the Shia Alawite-sect‚ while many of the insurgent groups in his country – including the Islamic State terror group – are Sunni adherents. And of course‚ the current civil war in Yemen has become a sectarian proxy
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Islam‚ Christianity‚ and Judaism are the three major monotheistic religions. Islam is the belief that Allah is the one and only G-d; if you don’t believe or convert you die. Muhammed devoted his life to spreading Islam. This all began when Muhammad saw the prophet Gabriel in Mecca‚ Saudi Arabia and was told to spread the name of Allah and praise him. Muhammed was born in Mecca in 570. Both his parents died when he was at the age of six and was left as a poor orphan. Muhammed was offered a job in
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guarantees gender equality‚ critics say that personal statutes laws and the penal code discriminate against women and girls. Moreover‚ it also grants leniency for so-called ’Honour killing’.[78] As of 9 November 2011 during the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad‚ the United Nations reported that of the over 3500 total deaths‚ over 250 deaths were children as young as 2 years old‚ and that boys as young as 11 years old have been gang raped by security services officers.[79][80] People opposing President
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expense. The costs to fund the war included a whopping $272 billion dollars (equal to $2‚857‚311‚186‚289.56 in 2015 value) in Germany. The syrian war also costed a lot‚ spending 4 million USD every day to fight against terrorism and oppressors of Bashar al-Assad regime. Civil matters has slowly increased in Syria. This was the same for Nazi Germany back in 1939-1945. The murder rate is now higher than ever from first week of the war in the Syrian genocide. Going from several hundreds of deaths to
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POTUS Policy Memo Project Fall 2013 Word Count: 649 Title: The US Government violating the US Material Support Statute. MEMORANDUM To: Barack Obama‚ President of the United States From: Student Date: November 12‚ 2013 Subject: The US Government violating the US Material Support Statute. Since‚ September 1‚ 2011‚ the United States has gone to extreme measures to not only fight terrorism but prevent it too. Under federal law‚ there are now criminal
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