UK Islamist Organization Sues Charity Commission
The United Kingdom’s Charity Commission has rightly sought to cut off funding through Islamic charities for the Islamist group CAGE. CAGE has been vocal in support for British Jihadis and has provided legal services for Jihadis. CAGE is largely funded by Islamic charities… CAGE, a UK advocacy group best known for defending Islamic State executioner […]
Jihadi Gangs in Germany Robbing Churches to Fund the Islamic State
Jihadists have been looting churches in the Middle East and southwest Asia for many years to collect stolen artifacts to fund Jihad. But now–perhaps due to the refugee influx from Syria–Jihadists are bringing this tactic to the West, specifically Germany… Eight young men appeared in court in Cologne on Tuesday charged with robbing churches and […]
Italy’s intelligence service helped concoct a false story about a rescue of hostages by security forces to hide a ransom payment, according to a leaked spy agency document. Al Qaeda got $525,000 in this scam…Note also that this article ties Somali piracy to Jihad, something we and others have maintained for some time, but which […]
By Christopher W. Holton The Islamic State is back at their “fundraising” efforts, which always seem to involve some form of monstrously illegal activity. Whether it’s black market oil sold through our “allies” in Turkey or black market antiquities sold to unscrupulous art dealers in the West…or simple ransom…the Islamic State has a great need […]
Report: Pay Cuts Thinning Islamic State’s Ranks
Hundreds of Isis killers give up terrorism after chiefs cut pay by £200 a month Hundreds of Islamic State terror fighters are deserting the cause – after their wages were slashed. The killers were on £260 a month until cash shortages forced the lower rate of £65. At least 200 IS gunmen have quit and are retreating […]
British Jihadist Placed Under UN Sanctions
By Christopher W. Holton A British Jihadist has been placed under UN sanctions for being a member and recruiter for the Islamic State. Nasser Muthana has had his assets frozen and has been placed on a travel ban list… Sanctions and frozen assets are good…150 grain Full Metal Jacket 7.62NATO rounds are even better…Just saying’… […]
Mass exodus of refugees straining Islamic State’s cash flow
A report claims that the Islamic State is running out of money because so many people are fleeing its lands. The Jihadist terrorist group is haemorrhaging cash and cannot raise more through taxation because of the plummeting population in the territory the Caliphate controls. Its coffers have also been hit by the chaos gripping its previously slick social […]
Toronto Mosque Caught on Video Raising Money for Islamic State
Support for the Islamic State isn’t just happening on Twitter. It’s happening in the mosques…as the video at the link illustrates… http://blog.xanthippas.com/2015/09/04/toronto-mosque-was-collecting-clothes-raising-money-for-isis/
By Christopher W. Holton A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate has introduced legislation that would facilitate terror victims to sue foreign governments and private-sector financiers for support of terrorism. The bill, aimed chiefly at the Saudi regime and individual Persian Gulf terrorism funders in nations such as Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia, has been backed by victims […]
Possible Islamic State Funding Scheme Discovered in South Africa
by Christopher W. Holton As if we needed any more evidence that we are locked in a global war, authorities in South Africa report a possible $5 million cache destined for the Islamic State… South African police say they are investigating whether more than $5 million seized from five passengers bound for Dubai in August […]
Australian Muslim Implicated By Indonesian Authorities for Funding Jihad
Indonesian authorities have revealed they have linked an Australian man to $500,000 they suspect has been used to support terrorism and send Indonesian nationals to Syria to fight with Islamic State. The Australian man is married to an Indonesian woman who the ABC understands is from Java but is now living in Australia. “That man […]
ISIS Enforcing Shariah Finance in Libya at Bayonet Point
H/T to Money Jihad: Islamic State operatives in Sirte, Libya, have ordered banks there to close because they profit from charging interest. ISIS told the banks that they “must change to Islamic banking” before they can reopen. If you know somebody who still doubts the connections between sharia-compliant banking and terrorism, please forward them this […]
Yale Establishes Shariah Law Center with $10 Million “Donation” From Saudi Shariah Finance Titan
By Christopher Holton Yale has now joined its Ivy League rival Harvard by establishing a center designed to promote Shariah in America. And, just like Harvard, Yale has prostituted itself to do so by taking a $10 million inducement from a wealthy Saudi financier who made his fortune in none other than Shariah-compliant finance. That […]
Four terror suspects linked to “Jihadi John” have been granted hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal aid to sue the UK Government. The men are all connected to a London terror cell whose most notorious member is Mohammed Emwazi, the real name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) executioner accused […]
A new, shocking film provides the first direct evidence linking ivory trafficking to terrorism. Warlords of Ivory shows the results of a year-long investigation by National Geographic reporter Bryan Christy. It documents atrocities committed against people and wildlife, on an almost unimaginable scale, by an ivory trafficking network coordinated by two of Africa’s most notorious war […]
Fifteen years seems an incredible light sentence for a Jihadist who was involved with savage terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, which is actively at war with the USA, and Al Shabaab, which has carried out numerous deadly, vicious attacks on civilian targets in east Africa. Nevertheless, the sentence was the maximum allowable under the […]
This is a scenario that we have seen play out previously. In some cases Islamic State Jihadists have destroyed antiquities of various types to symbolize their Salafist agenda. But in other cases they have surreptitiously absconded with such valuable artifacts and fenced them through legitimate dealers to raise money for Jihad… The FBI on Wednesday […]
After switching off her handphone for months, the wife of an Abu Sayyaf hostage switched it on again only to receive a chilling call from the gunmen – they are threatening to behead him. http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/08/25/Threats-to-behead-hostages/
This is what a site hacked by Jihadis looks like. We logged on to Calert.info read the report “Mechanisms of Drying up the Sources of Terrorism Financing.” We found that the page had been hacked by Jihadis. http://arpaserver.com
Intelligence officials are comparing a newly discovered secret Islamic State document to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Found in Pakistan’s remote tribal region by American Media Institute (AMI), the 32-page Urdu language document promotes an “end of the world” battle as a final solution. The undated document, “A Brief History of the Islamic State Caliphate (ISC), The […]
Nigeria has been wracked by Boko Haram’s violent Jihad in recent years, something that is expected to escalate, now that Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. One Nigerian official at least recognizes the importance of financial flows to Jihad… Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has advocated […]
Settlement Reached in Arab Bank Civil Suit
Arab Bank: Settlement Reached in Civil Terrorism-Finance Case The settlement came just days before a trial was scheduled to determine monetary damages against the bank. The plaintiffs said the bank transferred more than $70 million to an alleged Saudi terror entity, charities they claim were a front for Hamas and 11 globally-designated terrorist clients. Three […]
The lawyer representing a New York man accused of trying to support the Islamic State group says he’s concerned about the man’s mental competency and received a federal judge’s permission for an evaluation. Attorney Jeremy Schwartz made the request Monday as Arafat Nagi (NAH’-gee) pleaded not guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with attempting […]
We don’t ordinarily link to articles that are on subscriber-only web sites, but in this case we feel compelled to make an exception. This story from The Times of London is too important not to introduce… A senior employee of Amnesty International has undeclared private links to men alleged to be key players in a […]
Officials of the Somali government have accused local merchants of supporting Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militants. Elbuur district commissioner, Noor Hassan Guutaale says that Al Shabaab militants had been given funds by local merchants in the town. Elbuur, a former Al Shabaab stronghold which was captured by Somalia army, along with African Union peacekeeping forces after battling insurgents. […]
CAIR’s Latest Fundraising Letter
We thought SFW readers would like to see the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) latest fundraising efforts, since CAIR was identified as an affiliate of HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood in terrorism investigations and prosecutions. CAIR was named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the US v the Holy Land Foundation, the largest successful […]
Our friends at the outstanding Money Jihad blog are back from their annual summer vacation with two extremely interesting posts this week. Check them out: The first is a post about Judge Andrew Napolitano’s column implicating then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the apparent scheme to funnel Libyan arms to “rebels” (i.e. Jihadis) in Syria… […]
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs permanently closed down the Fahd al-Ahmed charity on Sunday due to “repeated violations despite the warnings”. Quoting a source at the ministry, al-Rai said that the ministry had repeatedly asked the charity to comply with regulations stipulating that funds for Syrians be collected through official channels. Officials from the charity […]
Zakat Financing Jihad
Long time readers of SFW know that we have explained repeatedly that zakat has been used to fund Jihadists because Shariah mandates it. Here we have an article on the subject from a Muslim writer in the Pakistani media acknowledging the fact that zakat funds Jihadists and pointing out that the Pakistani government has done […]
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