And in Islamic countries Mormons face at least as many obstacles as other non-Muslim believers do.
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Japan was late in developing its economic system compared with other Asian and Islamic countries.
Most Islamic countries in the Middle East also retain the death penalty, although they execute relatively few people.
Ms Koofi and fellow activists have argued that the law is similar to those in many other Islamic countries.
Unlike his predecessors, Benedict has been outspoken in his concern for the plight of Christian minorities in Islamic countries.
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With the Czech economy entering a recession, foreign trade has assumed added importance -- and that also counts for trade with Islamic countries.
Mr Lacunza Balda says Europe's Christians should protect Muslims from discrimination but that European Muslims should also speak out for Christians in Islamic countries.
Obviously, that has not been the case in Egypt or most other Islamic countries, where increased repression has been the usual result of armed insurgency.
We adopt and we affirm the Arab Peace Initiative that was adopted in summits, in Arab summits, as well as in summits held by Islamic countries.
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But there is a real fear that what happens in Egypt could spread to other Islamic countries, especially the ones that produce a significant amount of oil.
Their effective role is further demonstrated by the Arab Peace Initiative, which was fully endorsed by all of the Arab states, and the Islamic countries as well.
In most Islamic countries, attorneys are simply known as attorneys.
After eight months of deliberation, the parliamentary commission has come up with trivial recommendations: more police at embassies in Arab and Islamic countries, updating security arrangements in north Africa and elsewhere, hiring more investigators, interpreters and translators.
The work of attorneys is well-established in Arab and Islamic countries, and there are well-established fatwas from scholars which approve of their profession, as long as the attorney is seeking justice rather than helping someone who is guilty go free.
Since he replaced Pope John Paul II, Benedict has made repeated calls for religious tolerance and freedom in Islamic countries - most notably in his 2006 speech at Regensberg where he quoted a Byzantine emperor from the Middle Ages criticizing Islam for seeking to spread its message by the sword.
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Analysts say the problem that firms such as HSBC are facing in expanding their Islamic finance business is that different Muslim countries interpret Islamic law differently.
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries often host Islamic trade conventions: the Islamic Clothes fair will take place in Istanbul in September.
In countries with large Islamic populations, even the idea of mortgages (or any type of loan with interest), is viewed with suspicion.
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Calls for a no-fly zone have also come from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which represents Muslim countries, and Gulf Arab states.
With some 160 objects and works of art, from a still growing collection already six times that size, the show sets out to illustrate 1, 000 years of Islamic artistic and scientific accomplishments in countries from China to Spain.
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Banking scholars also argue that Islamic law blocked indigenous financial modernization in Muslim countries because of an inheritance system that restrained capital accumulation, inhibitions on pooling resources that discouraged investment diversification, and a traditional aversion to the concept of legal personhood for corporations, which hampered the development of financial entities.
But Sudan's banking industry remains embryonic and few African countries combine the strong desire to promote Islamic banking with heavy demand from Muslim customers.
And at a time when the influence of Islam is growing in all Central Asian countries, other Soviet or pre-Islamic Zoroastrian traditions are slowly disappearing as some people stop celebrating events considered incompatible with Muslim beliefs.
Also France, and to a certain extent, Germany and other countries that had colonies and interests in the Islamic world.
One important factor has been the recent rise in religiosity in Muslim countries, says Ibrahim Warde, author of Islamic Finance in the Global Economy and an adjunct professor of international business at Tufts University.
According to official information, the Saudis have built over 1500 mosques, 210 Islamic centers, 202 Islamic colleges and 2000 schools for educating Muslims in non-Muslim countries.
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It does not help that the Islamic legal tradition was broken when modern codes superseded it in most Muslim countries a century ago.
Ambassadors from 21 countries and a representative from the Arab League attended, as well as Islamic representatives in Italy.
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