Does Your Financial Institution Participate in Shariah Compliant Finance?
The most common requests we receive here at SFW are questions as to whether banks or brokerage houses “are Shariah-compliant?” As a result of these numerous inquiries, for the past several weeks, we have carefully compiled a list of financial institutions active in the USA that have some form of tie to Shariah Compliant Finance. […]
Shariah Finance Watch editor briefs Congressional staffers on Shariah-Compliant Finance
Recently we had the opportunity to brief staff members from 10 Congressional offices on the threat of Shariah Finance. The briefing was recorded and we have posted the full 1-hour briefing here for SFW viewers… Shariah Compliant Finance and Financial Jihad
A firm called Ethical Asset Management in the UK is launching a Sukuk fund for individual investors. This is fairly unremarkable, but the designation “ethical” is worth commenting on. Ethical is a subjective term. To most Westerners, there is little or nothing ethical about Shariah. On the contrary, many of the tenets of Shariah are […]
Incumbent Ohio treasurer Kevin Boyce has handed control of his office over to his top staffer, Deputy Treasurer Amer Ahmad, who has a habit of hanging around people who are well-known for ties to Islamic radicals and terrorists. Ahmad does so in his professional capacity, as well as in his personal life, choosing to attend an […]
Kiplinger Shills for Shariah
It is usually a mistake to write about something you know nothing about. This is advice that Janet Bodnar of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance should follow. In a new column, she decided to praise the Amana group of mutual funds for adhering to Islamic law. We assume that Ms. Bodnar knows nothing about “Islamic law,” properly […]
Yesterday, SFW posted a disturbing article detailing Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi’s instructions on zakat (Islamic alms giving): https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2010/05/07/more-definitive-proof-of-zakat-funding-jihad/ Some readers may be skeptical that the views of a man living in Qatar, as expressed to another man living in Egypt, would be relevant in the United States. Not only are Qaradawi’s views relevant because he is […]
A Caliphate of Toxic Assets
Alyssa A. Lappen has been writing about Shariah and Shariah-Compliant Finance for quite some time and there are few, if any, writers who are as informed on these subjects as she. Her latest work appears on FrontPageMag.com and we enthusiastically recommend it to our readers… http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35378
This week, CNN and Money magazine ran an article focusing on the role of faith in the personal finances of certain families. In the article which they published which deals with a Muslim family, we have discovered a whole slew of questions with regard to matters outside of personal finance which, not surprisingly, the lapdogs […]
The American Spectator’s Quin Hillyer focuses on Shariah Finance
Blocking the Funds of Terrorists It was treated as big news on Tuesday when Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau indicted Chinese executive Li Fang Wei and his company for using New York banks to finance the sale of tons of restricted, weapons-related material to Iran. But the truth is that some of these same banks […]
All too frequently, an article will appear in the news media extolling the virtues of “Islamic” finance as a way to protect wealth from the ravages of the current financial crisis. When we first came across a recent article in the Sacramento Bee, we figured that we had another case of this and were prepared […]
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