posted by Christopher W. Holton Note the misleading information in this article, namely referring to “Islamic banking” as “interest-free banking.” This implies that Shariah-compliant banks loan money for free. Nothing could be further from the truth. They charge fees instead of interest and very often the fees exceed what conventional interest would have charged… http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/rbi-govt-exploring-introduction-of-sharia-banking/919718
posted by Christopher W. Holton Gilbert Chagoury donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. He also donated to a Lebanese organization with financial ties to Hezbollah, designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department. Let that sink in. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. A huge donor to her family foundation […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton More and more online outlets are waking up to the fact that Islamic charities fund jihad… Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) was in November 2014 designated a terrorist group by the UAE, the second Middle Eastern country to do so. In June 2014, Israel declared IRW a financial conduit to Hamas, […]
by Christopher W. Holton The Western embrace of Shariah through the financial backdoor is sometimes overt…and at other times more subtle. In this case, by accepting Shariah-compliant bonds into their emerging markets indices, JP Morgan Chase is normalizing Shariah in a subtle way… U.S. investment bank JPMorgan will include Islamic bonds, or sukuk, in its […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Raising Money From Christians For the Explicit Purpose of Killing Jews The announcement last week by Israeli authorities that a top manager for the highly regarded Christian charity, World Vision International, had been charged with funneling aid money to the terrorist group HAMAS, was not a surprise to Israelis. In […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton There can be no doubt: Obama looked the American people in the eye and lied… The $400 million in cash which was sent to Iran under cover of night on a secret flight was conditioned on releasing some of the hostages and the plane with the cash – a Revolutionary […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Authorities in Dubai are concerned about the ultimate destination of charity donations. Who would know better? A British-Australian dual national living in Dubai who wanted to raise money for Afghans who fled their country’s long war has been detained for weeks over promoting a charity, his supporters said Friday. Scott […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton All of the major players that were once providing corporate life support for the ayatollahs in Tehran are lining back up once again…note that “development and infrastructure projects” are just what Iran needs to raise cash for its treasury… Iran said on Wednesday that Norway had offered the Islamic republic […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Marketers for binary options firms — some of them based in Israel or run by Israelis — are targeting Muslims, especially wealthy citizens from the Gulf, through websites that assert that the use of their trading platforms is permissible according to Islamic law. http://www.timesofisrael.com/youre-a-good-muslim-no-problem-weve-got-islamic-binary-options-accounts/
posted by Christopher W. Holton This explains in a nutshell why Shariah-compliant finance has gained a firm foothold in the West… Muslims have a whopping $11.5 trillion of wealth to their names, triggering a race among asset managers to tap this massive pool of capital, a Bloomberg report says. According to Washington-based Pew Research Center […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and his aides were featured on a list of over a hundred Muslim Brotherhood figures whose assets were frozen on Monday by a committee affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Justice, state-owned media Al-Ahram reported. Al-Ahram published the list of nearly 139 names on Sunday, […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Islamic charity Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) has been cited for ties through the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to HAMAS, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization… http://drrichswier.com/2016/08/14/florida-muslim-charity-helping-hands-for-relief-developments-terrorist-ties/
by Christopher W. Holton The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a package of counter-terrorism financing legislation aimed at strengthening national strategy to combat terrorist financing activities. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, chairman of the Financial Services Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing, said, “Any terrorist organization or rogue actor needs access to the global financial system […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton A non-profit group controlled by billionaire financier George Soros set out to conduct opposition research on a handful of critics of radical Islam, a newly released internal memo shows. It names prominent critics of radical Islam, such as Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney, and Robert Spencer as targets for opposition researchers […]
by Christopher W. Holton Last week, 26 AIPAC nations got together in Indonesia to hold a summit on terrorism financing. The report from the summit identified four major sources for terrorism funding. Keep in mind that all of this deals with Islamic terrorism, i.e. Jihad, as no other forms of terrorism are known to exist […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton John Guandolo of Understanding the Threat has posted a brief article on the role of zakat in funding Jihad… https://www.understandingthethreat.com/muslims-paying-zakat-are-funding-terrorism/ UTT has also posted a brief video on the subject… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNwsY1FeLko
posted by Christopher W. Holton US President Barack Obama supports renewal of the Iran Sanctions Act before the law expires at the end of this year, despite his public silence on the matter, House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Eliot Engel told The Jerusalem Post this week. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Obama-told-Engel-he-supports-Iran-Sanctions-Act-renewal-464021
posted by Christopher W. Holton Last week, officials of World Vision, an internationally known humanitarian organization, were indicted in Israel for secretly aiding military activities of Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a “Foreign Terror Organization.” This week, Israeli security officials swooped down on officials of a much larger humanitarian organization which openly operates Hamas […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Islamic State-linked group wants $5.6 million paid by Aug. 15 for 7 Indonesians it kidnapped June 20. The Abu Sayyaf militant group is holding seven Indonesians it kidnapped June 20 in the Southern Philippines jungles of Sulu, for which it has reportedly asked a ransom of 250 million pesos ($5.6 […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Linked below is a transcript of an interview of investigative journalist Richard Pollock by Center for Security Policy CEO and Secure Freedom Radio host Frank Gaffney. The two discuss the Clinton Foundation’s disturbing financial ties to GEMS, a conglomerate with Shariah educational activities and Shariah finance divisions… http://rednationrising.us/richard-pollock-on-the-clinton-foundations-ties-to-sharia/
posted by Christopher W. Holton Shariah finance assets grew by 10 percent to reach $2 trillion in 2015, according to a new report by Thomson Reuters. Shariah banking represented 73 percent of that figure, followed by sukuk (Shariah bonds) which represented 17 percent, said the initial findings of ICD Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Development Indicator […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Last month, Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and I introduced a bill to provide more transparency for payments made to foreign nations, like Iran. Specifically, the bill would instruct the Treasury Department to provide additional information regarding payments from the U.S. Judgment Fund. The Treasury Department’s Judgment Fund pays domestic and […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Second Counter-Terrorism Financing Summit takes place from August 8 to 11 in Bali. The conferences is jointly organized with Australia and includes the participation of representatives from about 30 countries and international organizations. Discussions are expected to center on how to counter the cross-border movement of terrorism. This includes […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Two men have been arrested in England on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences. The men, aged 26 and 32, were detained on Tuesday at addresses in Coventry in the West Midlands on suspicion of financing terrorism. http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/british-police-detain-two-men-on-suspicion-of-syria-related-terrorism-748813.html
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels and Turkey are causing a sharp drop off in demand from North American travelers for Mediterranean cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line warned on Monday. http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/08/09/norwegian-slashes-outlook-as-terrorism-hits-booking/
Australia and Germany Cease Funding for World Vision
posted by Christopher W. Holton As we reported here a few days ago, World Vision, a Christian charity with a clear anti-Israel bias, was charged in Israel with funding HAMAS, a Jihadist terrorist organization, thanks to the actions of one of the charity’s leading Muslim employees. Now, Australia and Germany have decided that funding World […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton There are growing concerns in Australia that the country’s Muslim population has become a surreptitious source of funding for Jihad across Asia… http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/australia-monitoring-terrorist-groups-in-asia-for-funding-links/7711802 Meanwhile, Australia has set up a special unit to track such payments over the Internet… Australia has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton We’re used to posting articles about Islamic charities funding Jihadist terrorist organizations, but now we are presented with something completely unexpected: one of the world’s largest Christian charities funding a Jihadist terrorist organization, namely HAMAS. Mohammed El Halabi, an employee of World Vision, the world’s largest evangelical Christian charity, has […]
by Christopher W. Holton We’ve seen this before with Jihadists in Europe, but this is especially infuriating. The Jihadis who carried out the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels were on the welfare rolls and collected tens of thousands of euros from the public treasury… https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/08/paris-and-brussels-jihad-killers-got-56000-in-welfare-while-planning-attacks
posted by Christopher W. Holton By now, everyone knows that the Obama administration sent the Islamic Republic of Iran $400 million in cash in a transaction that coincided with the release of American hostages. Obama has sent his spin machine into high gear to deny that this was a ransom payment, even though that is […]
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