This was the case under the leadership of the fanatical Haj Amin el-Husseini in the 1940s and under Arafat from the 1960s onwards.
ECONOMIST: The Arab-Israeli conflict
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Mahmoud Amin El-Gamal, who holds the Islamic Finance Chair at Rice University in Houston, claims the sharia finance industry is selling overpriced products to the religiously naive.