The offshore centres of the future will probably be politically stable, with good legal systems and firms and a strategy of non-confrontation with big economies on tax.

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Muslims Speak Out is designed to provide a public forum for Muslim scholars, academics, researchers and activists who oppose Islamist extremism and the violent confrontation with moderate Muslims and non-Muslims.

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The pattern in such cases is that when the non-democratic party to the treaty violates the agreement, the democratic party - ever reluctant to provoke a confrontation - tends at first to ignore or belittle the evidence.

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