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 […]
The Wall Street Journal Weighs In On Al Goreeza: Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera…and about Dow Jones too
We’re glad to see that the Wall Street Journal has weighed in on the nefarious aspects of Al Jazeera, echoing what we reported here on SFW last week: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2013/01/03/al-gore-sells-out-to-qatar-state-owned-al-jazeera-buys-current-tv/ It’s worth pointing out some of the highlights in the Journal’s article: …the network reflects the interests of the government that runs it—making it akin to […]
“Extremism” on the Rise in Zanzibar–Thanks to Saudi Money and Islamic Charities
The Financial Times has an important article about the influx of Salafi Islam in the island region of Tanzania known as Zanzibar. The article doesn’t draw any of the correct conclusions about what is happening there, but it contains enough clues to build a picture. For folks who don’t remember, Tanzania is one of the […]
Zakat Support for Madrassas
Madrassas have been in the news quite a lot lately, mostly associated with a ludicrous speech given by Congressman Andre Carson praising these Islamic schools as a model for education in the US. The reality, naturally, is far different. In the Islamic world, particularly in the Middle East and southwest Asia, madrassas are widely used […]
Al Qaeda called a ‘money making machine’ by British official–that’s not even HALF the story
The article below from The Telegraph in Great Britain quotes a British Foreign Office director as describing Al Qaeda as a “money making machine,” due to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s practice of ransoming hostages for money. Evidently, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland have all paid such ransoms to the Jihadist terrorist organization. This […]
Reader Tim alerted us over the weekend to the fact that Muft Taqi Usmani is no longer listed as chief of HSBC’s Shariah Advisory Board. http://www.hsbcamanah.com/amanah/about-amanah/islamic-banking/shariah-supervision Note, however, that Usmani’s son is now listed as a member of this body. The younger Usmani is considered antiseptic enough for Western financial institutions and has no known […]
Here on SFW, we have profiled a particularly evil Shariah scholar named Taqi Usmani: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2009/05/06/who-controls-shariah-compliant-finance-the-shariah-scholars-of-course/ Among many other things, Usmani is the chief of the Shariah advisory board for HSBC: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2009/02/27/hsbcs-shariah-man/ Usmani is a bad man, an enemy of the West, a Jihadist to the core. In fact, now that his Jihadist philosophy is becoming […]
Are We Financing Our Own Demise?
Gadi Adelman and the intrepid Joy Brighton have just published an outstanding analysis of Shariah-Compliant Finance over on the Financial Security Matters site. Please take the time to read it and pass it on to your friends and associates: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5632/pub_detail.asp
A British-based charity called “Islamic Help” lists its mission as “relief of financial hardship.” So why is Islamic Help raising money to build what would be the largest boarding school in the entire United Kingdom–a madrassa with over 5,000 students? That’s a question that the UK Charity Commission asked and it looks as if they […]
Diploma in Islamic finance for muftis in India
A madrassa in Hyderabad will offer a diploma course in Islamic finance to muftis, for the first time in India. The diploma in Islamic finance would focus on imparting knowledge to students in economics, investment according to Shariah rules and preparation of the documents for financial products and services. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Diploma-in-Islamic-finance-for-muftis/articleshow/5127143.cms?
Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad–MUST READ article from Raymond Ibrahim
Raymond Ibrahim is absolutely one of America’s foremost experts on Jihad. His book, “The Al Qaeda Reader,” is especially a real eye-opener in terms of the critical role that Shariah plays in Jihad. Today, over at Pajamas Media, Ibrahim has written an article which covers a topic that we have focused a great deal of […]
Support Your Local Shariah
David R. Stokes has written an excellent column on the Islamic Saudi Academy controversy in northern Virginia, as well as the insinuation of shariah into Western civilization, particularly Western Europe… http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidRStokes/2009/08/02/support_your_local_sharia&Comments=true
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Jihadists target “capitalism”
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Jihadist political organization which has been especially active in Great Britain in recent years. The organization is banned in Germany and has been declared a terrorist organization. Now, as the excellent folks at the Counterterrorism blog explain, they are emerging in the USA: http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/06/hizb_ut-tahrir_america_enters.php Hizb ut Tahrir has an English […]
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