Court Backs Muslim In Unemployment Benefits/Handshake Dispute
A Swedish court ruled Monday in favor of a Muslim man who lost unemployment benefits after refusing a female executive’s handshake, court documents indicate. Stockholm District Court ordered Sweden’s National Public Employment Agency to pay $8,000 to the man, who was withdrawn from a labor market training program after refusing the handshake at a company […]
Saudi financial jihadist prince eyes new links with News Corp.
The Saudi billionaire whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said he is looking to expand his alliances with the media giant. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king and who was listed last year by Forbes as the world’s 22nd richest person, met withNews Corp.’s chief […]
Money Talks: Deterring Libel Tourism
The Sauds are mounting a surreptitious campaign to stifle freedom of expression in the United States through “lawfare.” This is why state-level initiatives designed to protect free speech, such as those already passed in New York, California, Florida and Illinois, are so important. For information on how you can get involved in starting a Free […]
Shariah finance: The deadly Jihadist weapon with a dollar sign
It is highly appropriate that SFW end 2009 by sharing the latest work from one of the true heroes of the Western world in the fight against Shariah: David Yerushalmi. Mr. Yerushalmi’s essay in the Washington Examiner provides both a primer for those unfamiliar with the issue of Shariah Finance, as well as an update […]
U.S. taxpayers funding terrorism: the ties that blind
What would you think if it was proven beyond doubt your tax money is getting into the hands of terrorists, not altogether accidentally? How would you feel if you discovered that the dollar you paid in income tax had been channeled by the federal government through a bank bailout law to Citigroup which then ‘invested’ in […]
Shariah Banking Comes to Germany
There are four million Muslims living in Germany. They eat, drink and pray in accordance with the precepts of the Prophet Muhammad. But when it comes to monetary transactions, the principles of the Koran have played hardly any role in Germany. That is about to change. Early next year, the first Islamic bank in Germany […]
Regular readers of SFW may recall our reports a few months ago about Hizb ut-Tahrir. Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international organization dedicated to the establishment of a worldwide Muslim Caliphate ruled by Shariah law. The organization held an event in Chicago calling for an end to capitalism and replacing free enterprise with an Islamic system […]
Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world’s second-largest reinsurer, is starting a Sharia-compliant family and general insurance business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Note this very disturbing statement in the article linked below: “The 1.5 billion Muslims around the world, and also non-Muslims interested in the principles underpinning Sharia- compliant products, represents a growing client segment for the […]
Brigitte Gabriel’s outstanding ACT! for America organization just announced the launch of its Stop Shariah Now project. Stop Shariah Now will be an ongoing educational, public relations, and grassroots lobbying effort designed to significantly increase public awareness of the threat of creeping Islamic law called “Shariah” into America, and win support for public policies that […]
Islamic Finance comes to France; Promoters Worry About “Prejudice”
Islamic finance is making its way into France, but its promoters worry that retail establishments for Shariah-Compliant banking and finance will be inhibited by “prejudice” against Islam. Prejudice against Islam has NOTHING to do with opposition to Shariah-Compliant Finance. The problem is SHARIAH itself. Shariah is a barbaric doctrine which is inherently damaging to human […]
Yale Criticized For Nixing Muslim Cartoons
The Jihadists are winning. They have successfully intimidated a bastion of free thought and free expression in the United States into suppressing a book about the cartoons of Mohammed that stirred up so much controversy (and outright violence) a couple of years ago. Under Shariah, these cartoons are considered “defamation” and the Organization of the […]
EEOC Says Muslim Workers Suffered Discrimination
Federal officials says a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Colorado was wrong to fire more than 100 Muslim workers who walked out during Ramadan last year in a dispute over prayer breaks. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday that Swift failed to provide religious accommodations to workers and retaliated against those […]
Sebastian Gorka: Sahriah finance is a zero-sum game
Dr. Sebastian Gorka is military affairs fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D. C., and associate fellow with the Joint Special Operations University. He has written an excellent article on Shariah-Compliant Finance which we think everyone should read… Dr. Gorka correctly identifies Shariah-Compliant Finance as a form of economic warfare being […]
Rifqa Bary, ‘Dead Girl Walking’ Fox News, Newsmax | Aug 21, 2009 By Frank Gaffney, Jr. Frank Gaffney on Fox News discusses Rifqa Bary– a 17 year-old apostate from Islam. She fled her home in Ohio last month, claiming that her father threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. Under Shariah law, […]
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 […]
British show the rest of Europe how to be good dhimmis
Some folks in Europe are less than enthusiastic about Shariah-Compliant Finance. Perhaps this is because the basis of Shariah-Compliant Finance, Shariah itself, is a barbaric, ancient doctrine which inherently abuses human rights. Never mind that, the British are “flexible” when it comes to Shariah-Compliant Finance and the UK is fast becoming an international Islamic finance […]
If there is a Western financial institution that has done more to promote Shariah than HSBC, we don’t know about it. HSBC has embraced Shariah enthusiastically and is involved in its financial arm everywhere from Western Europe to the Persian Gulf to the Orient. If there is a financial institution worthy of a boycott by […]
Islamic finance industry thriving in Malaysia
SFW has devoted a great deal of attention to Malaysia as of late because there has been a barrage of news related to Shariah-Compliant Finance there. It does appear that Shariah-Compliant Finance is growing by leaps and bounds in Malaysia and the growth of Shariah-Compliant Finance anywhere is absolutely nothing to celebrate. Wider Shariah-Compliant Finance […]
Algeria has been waging a counterinsurgency campaign against violent Jihadist terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. Unfortunately, it seems that Al Qaeda’s major goal of imposing Shariah is making headway through other means. As a result, many Algerians have seen their livelihoods basically erased: “At least 40 bars, restaurants and nightclubs have been closed in the […]
In what is most assuredly a case of semi-orchestrated “lawfare,” a Muslim couple in Canada has declared it a human rights violation that they were served salami containing pork in a grocery store. The grocery store chain offered to give them cash and make a donation to a charity of their choice to settle the […]
Speaking at an investors forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today called on local and foreign Islamic finance consultants and advisors to spearhead the enrichment and dissemination of Shariah knowledge. This is not the first time that a political leader in an Islamic nation has instructed the Islamic […]
Middle Eastern Islamist regimes, awash in petrodollars, are now touting Shariah Finance as the key for renewed economic growth. What this amounts to is Islamic imperialism. Whereas in the past Saudi, Kuwaiti and other oil sheikhs in the 1970s began expanding their clout by investing in Western real estate and securities markets, today they have […]
The Dow Jones Islamic Index, a product which has already caused embarrassment for Dow Jones when it was fully disclosed that the hateful Jihadist Mufti Taqi Usmani sat atop its Shariah advisory board last year, is now set to expand by 11 countries to 68 total nations. Nothing is more illustrative of the march of […]
Shariah is gaining a foothold in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius through the Shariah Finance Trojan Horse. Mauritius is a beautiful, popular tourist resort destination and the prospect of Shariah gaining a foothold there cannot be something which will be positive in the long-term for the hospitality industry. Already, shariah-compliant investment funds have […]
Yesterday, we reported that the Constitutional Court of South Africa has recognized polygamy in a ruling having to do with estate law: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2009/07/15/shariah-creeps-into-south-african-estate-law-polygamy-now-recognized-by-courts/ Today, we ran across an article proclaiming the ruling as a victory for women’s rights in South Africa. We thought that this take on the subject was illustrative of the methodology that […]
The Constitutional Court of South Africa has just ruled that all wives in a Muslim marriage are entitled to a claim from the estate of a husband who dies without a will. As far as we know, polygamy has never been legal in South Africa. Until now, it has never been recognized. We suspect that […]
Shariah Index for Thai stock market
Earlier this week we reported on the new Shariah-compliant Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) introduced here in the US. Now we are greeted with the news that a Shariah index has been established in the Thai stock market. Once again, we have an example of a news report which reads an awful lot like a marketing […]
CAIR asks US leaders to address “growing Islamophobia”
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a press release late yesterday calling on U.S. leaders to address what the organization says is “growing Islamophobia” in the U.S. At the end of the release, CAIR lists a host of links to several alleged instances of “Islamophobia,” as well as a bunch of other links […]
The article linked below is obviously not directly related to Shariah Finance, but it is an example of Shariah courts operating with authority in a supposedly “secular” nation, with that nation’s courts basically rubber stamping a ruling by Shariah authorities. In this case, the ruling involved burying a man as a Muslim, when his family […]
While this article is not directly related to Shariah-Compliant Finance, it does illustrate how Shariah-compliance can and does get in the way of commerce and Western traditions of conducting business–even when it comes to the special relationship between medical caregivers and their patients…this is a prime example of Creeping Shariah at its worst. This […]
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