posted by Christopher W. Holton The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is poised to seize about 14 properties in Jammu and Kashmir belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist outfit chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in an attempt to clamp down on terror funding, the Economic Times reported… The ED has identified 13 properties belonging to other militant organisations. .. https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/economy/article/ed-cracks-down-on-terror-funding-to-seize-properties-of-hafiz-saeed-zakir-naik/373999
posted by Christopher Holton Bloomberg News has an article posted about the situation in Pakistan that has mostly escaped the attention of the West in general and Americans in particular. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Pakistan has made a great show of cracking down on “extremism.” But the persistent presence of jihadis in Pakistani […]
An Example of Disinformation on “Islamic Banking”
posted by Christopher W. Holton Linked below is a rather typical example of the taqiyya that is used to promote Shariah-compliant finance, in this case Islamic banking. Practitioners of Shariah-finance are fond of defining it simply as “interest free.” There is much more to Shariah finance besides the interest-free aspect. First of all, the term […]
by Christopher W. Holton Here is a report that vividly illustrates the profound differences between charities in the West and “charities” in the Islamic world. Not only do Islamic charities routinely fund Jihad, they also operate Shariah courts. In the case linked below, we have Jamat ud Dawa, a Pakistani charity that has already been […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton India has frozen the assets of 37 entities on charges of terrorist financing and money laundering of illicit funds, according to the latest report by global anti-financial terror body FATF (Financial Action Task Force). The FATF is an inter-governmental body established in 1989 and it is mandated to set global protocols […]
In what can only be described as a stunning development, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has joined the US Treasury Department in placing sanctions on an Islamic charity that has provided material support to the Jihadist terrorist organization, Lashkar e Taiba. Readers may recall that Lashkar e Taiba was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist […]
Lashkar e Taiba Charity Wing Still Active
Lashkar e Taiba is one of the most vicious and deadly Jihadist groups in the world, having carried out the horrific Mumbai attack in 2008. They have long been supported by, and worked through, their charity wing, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which the Pakistani government has left completely untouched. Nothing better illustrates the problems associated with Islamic charities. Even […]
Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Islamic charity wing of the Jihadist terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba, has just held a major conference in Pakistan. The organization called for a Jihad against India, Israel and the United States and tied its charity relief work to converting hundreds of Hindu to Islam. About JuD’s increasing shift to relief efforts, senior […]
A report released this week demonstrates how Qatar plays a double game with the West – funding terrorist groups throughout the region while acting like an ally and responsible player on the world stage.The report, “Qatar and Terror Finance: Negligence,” is the first in a three-part series by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and […]
Two charity arms of the jihadist group, blamed for 2008 Mumbai attacks, are active in the Gaza Strip Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), accused of carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is now reportedly engaged in charity work in Gaza, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor found. According to […]
It’s no secret that Jihadist organizations based in Pakistan have been targeting India, particularly Kashmir, for many years. And it’s no secret that Islamic charities have long facilitated the funding of such operations. Now, Indian authorities have uncovered some of the mechanisms by which Islamic charities based in Pakistan have been funding jihad in Kashmir. […]
India’s most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and Pakistan-linked terrorists and terror groups figure prominently in an updated list of financial sanctions imposed by the British government. Jaish-e-Mohammed or the Army of Mohammed, blamed for the 2001 attack on India’s parliament, featured on the freeze list as a key outfit “based in Peshawar and Muzaffarabad, […]
OpEdNews Column: The Dark Side of Saudi Petrodollars
There is a nice column over on OpEdNews by a man named Brian Lynch touching on Saudi Arabia’s funding of Jihadist terrorism. The column doesn’t break any new ground, but it does provide links to other recent columns by other authors dealing with the same subject matter. It is also interesting in that the column […]
The US Treasury has sanctioned a top Al Qaeda official and a madrassa in Peshawar, Pakistan for serving as a terrorist training center supporting Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan based terrorist group behind the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. Targeting Jamia Taleem-Ul-Quran-Wal-Hadith Madrassa, also known as the Ganj madrassa, the Treasury department said the Peshawar based religious school […]
Here is another important article from the Gatestone Institute. Long-time SFW readers may recall our work over the years on the funding of Lashkar e Taiba through the Islamic charity Jamaat ud Dawa and other channels: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/category/lashkar-e-taiba/ Gatestone has an update on this topic well worth reading: Pakistan has just allocated over $4,000,000 for a […]
Islamic Charities Revealed: Bankrollers of Terror
Foreign Policy magazine recently published an excellent article on the role of Islamic charities in funding Jihadist terrorism, something we’ve been writing about here on SFW for several years now. Authors Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aaron Y. Zelin detail in the article how Islamic NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) are bankrolling terrorist organizations under the guise of “aid.” […]
Al Gore Sells Out to Qatar: State-Owned Al Jazeera Buys Current TV
Al Gore has sold his failing Current TV television network. The buyer is none other than Al Jazeera, the infamous Islamist television network based out of Doha, Qatar (more on Qatar very shortly). Gore released an interesting statement along with the announcement of the sale: “Current Media was built based on a few key goals: […]
Indian Police Probe Hizb ut-Tahrir Support for Terrorism
Long-time readers of SFW may remember Hizb ut-Tahrir as the worldwide Islamist organization that held a convention in Chicago a few years ago dedicated to replacing capitalism with an “Islamic system.” Hizb ut-Tahrir claim to be peaceful. Indian authorities have an idea that they may not be so peaceful after all. In fact, they are investigating […]
An investigation by Indian authorities into an August bomb attack in Pune, India has uncovered a significant Saudi connection to the deadly and infamous Jihadist terrorist organization, Lashkar e Taiba. That connection appears to center around a Saudi citizen named Fayyaz Kagzi: Asad travelled to middle-east, especially Saudi Arabia, several times to meet Kagzi and spent […]
In a blatant example of taqiyya (sacred deception permissible under Shariah law), Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Islamic charity that bankrolls Lashkar-e-Taiba in general and the Mumbai terrorist attacks in particular, is attempting to disavow any connection to the terrorist organization. This ploy comes on the heels of the US Treasury Department dsignating 8 Lashkar-e-Taiba members as terrorists. […]
US Imposes Sanctions on Eight Lashkar e Taiba leaders
The US Treasury Department has designated eight leaders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as terrorists and placed sanctions on them, holding them accountable for the Mumbai attacks in 2008, and attacks on coalition and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. The designation bars US citizens from engaging in transactions with the designees and freezes the assets of the designees under […]
A report in Pakistani media indicates that one of the Islamic world’s most notorious charities has been making appeals for zakat funds using Twitter. Jamaatud Dawa is considered the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jihadist terrorist organization that carried out the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. In fact, in 2008, after the Mumbai attack, the United […]
The Pakistani Jihadist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the bloody Mumbai terrorist attack in India, funded one of the attacker’s year-long visit to Saudi Arabia to recruit young Indian men who were visiting in Saudi Arabia… Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba financed the procurement of work permits by Mumbai terror attacks suspect Abu Jundal for […]
One of the chief concerns about Shariah-Compliant Finance has to do with zakat, the system of tithing in Islam that so often involves the funding of Islamic charities which in turn distribute money to violent Jihadist terrorist organizations, particularly HAMAS and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Proponents of Shariah Finance act as if this concern is completely unfounded and […]
A Woodbridge, Virginia man originally from Pakistan has been sentenced to 12 years in Federal prison for providing material support, including attempts at fundraising, for the Pakistani Jihadist terrorist organization, Lashkar e Taiba. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/13/va-man-gets-12-years-for-aiding-terrorists833779/
The US has offered a $10 million reward for the capture of Pakistani Jihadist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Saeed is associated with the terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba, the organization that carried out the horrific Mumbai terrorist attacks in India back in 2008. Long-time readers may recall that donations to Islamic charities in Pakistan in the […]
During July-October 2011 when floods devastated Pakistani towns and villages, especially in the Sindh province, the outlawed terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jihadist group responsible for the bloody 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, organized camps to provide food and shelter for the flood victims. These relief camps were organized under the banner of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s charity […]
Correcting The New Misinformation on Islamic Charities Funding Jihadist Terrorism
The Guardian in the UK has come out with an article (“Counterterrorism laws taking their toll on humanitarian action”) critical of US counterterrorism efforts that are designed to prevent the funneling of money to Jihadist terrorist groups, especially in Gaza and Somalia, two hotbeds of Jihadist terrorist activity. When ever we see misguided and ignorant […]
The Treasury Department added three members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an al Qaeda affiliate based in Southeast Asia, to its list of specially designated global terrorists earlier this month. Two of the three, Abdul Rahim Ba’asyir (Abdul Rahim) and Muhammad Jibril Abdul Rahman (Jibril), were identified as senior members of JI’s al Ghuraba cell in Karachi, […]
Yesterday explosions rocked Mumbai, India, killing more than a score of innocent people. This is the latest in a series of attacks that have struck that city over the past two decades. There certainly is an economic cost to Jihadist terrorism and the Wall Street Journal points that out in a column published today… India’s […]
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