Eric Holder’s Justice Department Honors Buffalo-Based Al Qaeda Charity Fundraiser, Director of Pakistani Spy Front Group Khalid Qazi with Top Community Service Award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhfEe6Zels#t=504
Islamic banks, or banks that comply with Islamic law, are beginning to make inroads into the banking scene in the US. https://www.zawya.com/story/Islamic_banking_solutions_gain_ground_in_US-ZAWYA20140609034019/
Evidently, as long as you can seize power by hook or by crook, it doesn’t matter that you’re an officially designated foreign terrorist organization by the United States, you can take part in the largess known as foreign aid… HAMAS is an officially designated foreign terrorist organization and as such it is illegal for US […]
A new report details the intention of financial jihadists to infiltrate the Americas through the financial backdoor… Islamic finance, banking, and takaful (Islamic Insurance) has a large potential in the US and Canada despite several setbacks and various obstacles and hurdles, which exist in any secular country or nation where church and state has been […]
An outfit we’ve never come across before, the Franco-American Alliance for Islamic Finance, is holding a seminar promoting Shariah finance in North America. Where is the seminar being held? In Dubai. More details… http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1902068 http://www.faaif.com
Federal prosecutors want a man convicted in a failed 2001 shoe bomb plot to bring down an airliner to testify at the sentencing of two British citizens who pleaded guilty in Connecticut to supporting terrorists through websites. Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan pleaded guilty in December to terrorism charges. Ahmad admitted he sought recruits, cash […]
Excellent analyses from Kevin Freeman and Michael Del Rosso: http://globaleconomicwarfare.com/2013/09/1305/
Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, who was arrested this week by the FBI for trying to detonate what he believed to be a car bomb at an Oakland, California Bank of America, is reportedly a Taliban sympathizer who chose Oakland as the site of his planned terrorist attack because he believed Oakland to be a “center of protest.” Llaneza, […]
Jihadist pleaded guilty to attempted bombing of New York Federal Reserve Bank
In a completely different form of financial jihad, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis pleaded guilty this week to attempting to detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb at the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty Street in lower Manhattan’s financial district. The charge to which Nafis pleaded guilty, attempting to use a weapon of mass […]
Prosecutors are laying out their case in court against two South Florida imams accused of funneling more than $50,000 to support the Pakistani Taliban, playing wiretapped phone calls and showing bank records to bolster their accusations against the Pakistan-born men. Hafiz Khan, the head of one of Miami’s oldest mosques, and his son, Izhar Khan, were […]
An interesting story from Government Security News on a new wrinkle on how Jihadists raise money: A phone hacking ring with ties to Al Qaeda-related groups in the Philippines and Somalia have targeted small businesses in New York, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of overseas long distance calls. The ring is exploiting gaps […]
A New, Interesting Lawsuit: Americans in Israel Sue America for Funding HAMAS
The Times of Israel has an interesting article posted today about a lawsuit filed by Americans living in Israel who are suing the US government for funding HAMAS, a Jihadist terrorist organization. The lawsuit names the State Department and the White House for essentially looking the other way by not ensuring that US aid to […]
A large mosque complex is planned for rural Maryland and the supporters are soliciting funds from overseas to complete it. The Dar-us-Salaam Islamic community in College Park, Maryland is planning what would be the largest Islamic project in America, according to Creeping Shariah Blog. Residents in Maryland are opposing the project on zoning grounds–just as they […]
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
US Treasury Claims Sanctions Hitting Al Qaeda Hard
The US Treasury claims that its targeted sanctions program is hitting Al Qaeda and rogue nations, such as Iran, hard. We’ve no doubt that Iran, the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism, has been substantially effected by sanctions and we would concede that Al Qaeda has no doubt been impacted in some way. But […]
Seven people have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of funding overseas terrorism with money linked to smuggling of the stimulant khat. The arrests were part of an international probe into alleged terror fundraising and money-laundering. In a statement, Scotland Yard said the arrests were part of an investigation into a network suspected of illegally […]
An International Conference on Islamic Funds and Investment opened this week in Karachi, Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Observer, among the large number of attendees were investors from the USA and Canada. The report indicated that some $1.3 trillion is invested in 650 Shariah-Compliant funds worldwide, including 230 in Saudi Arabia, 172 in Malaysia, 59 in […]
As regular readers of SFW know, we focus a great deal on the many Islamic charities which have been implicated in the funding of Jihadist terrorism. This activity does not occur by accident. On the contrary, it has a doctrinal basis in Islamic law, as we have detailed many times in the past: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/category/islamic-charities/ The […]
ICNA: Zakat for Jihad
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood organization in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution, the largest successful terrorism financing prosecution in US history. Recently, ICNA announced that they are embarking upon a $3 million propaganda campaign to promote Shariah in America: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18956.xml?genre_id= ICNA has a division called ICNA Relief, […]
CRY US A RIVER!!! A Rochester woman convicted of raising money for the terrorist group al-Shabaab is asking a federal judge to let her out of jail while she awaits sentencing. An attorney for Amina Farah Ali said in a motion that it has been six months since the conviction and because of various delays, […]
We have learned not to expect much from The Huffington Post. In fact, we make it a point to avoid it on most days. But today “HuffPo” published an article by Annalisa Musarra of the “Religion News Service” and we had to read it. It amounts to a celebration of Muslims NOT assimilating into society as […]
The Yassine family of Austin, Texas is apparently quite the enterprising group. Led by Hussein “Mike” Yassine, the Yassines were quite diversified. They own 8 bars. According to law enforcement authorities they are also a one-family crime wave. They are involved in murder, money laundering, drug dealing–and they have a brother back in Lebanon who […]
Congressional Report: Hezbollah has “several thousand” donors in the USA
A report issued by the House Homeland Security Committee indicates that Hezbollah has a large and threatening presence inside the USA and is successfully raising funds inside the USA to support its Jihad. Among the findings outlined in the report which are particularly relevant for SFW readers: • Counterterrorism officials consider Hezbollah fundraising cells to […]
The FBI issued a warrant for a man in Dearborn, Michigan named Ali Hammoud. The warrant was related to a case in which the proceeds from bootleg cigarettes went to the Jihadist terrorist group Hezbollah. It appears that the FBI may have gotten the wrong Ali Hammoud of Dearborn though…which prompts the question: Where is the Hezbollah […]
A Syrian-American restaurant owner named Jamal Roman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has been sentenced to 53 months in prison on a variety of fraud, bribery and tax evasion charges. What is also buried in the press release from the FBI below, is the fact that he also sent $700,000 to Syria, in violation of US […]
Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan (pictured) were not even subtle about raising money for Jihad in Somalia. Evidently, they went door to door asking for donations for the Al Qaeda-affiliated Jihadist terror group Al Shabaab. Al Shabaab is the group that recently set off a car bomb in Somalia that killed 100 or more […]
Mark Polege has posted an excellent article over on BigPeace.com. We urge you to check it out. Here is an excerpt and link… One of the least talked about forms of Jihad is making great advancements into our U.S. financial system, Sharia-Compliant Finance. In short Sharia-compliant finance is “reverse money-laundering” for Islamic extremists or fund-raising for […]
Some REALLY Bad Ideas on How to Solve America’s Debt Problems
Not surprisingly, the financial jihadists are promoting Shariah as the solution to America’s debt problems. We’ve seen this before. Back in 2008, in the wake of the subprime mortgage debacle and near-financial meltdown, the financial jihadists insisted that Shariah-compliant finance would have avoided the whole mess. Then, in 2009, defaulting on sukuk (Islamic bonds) just […]
Jihad, coming to your hometown, sooner or later… A Seattle man accused of plotting to attack a military recruiting station had filed for bankruptcy in May, but Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif was still able to buy weapons.“He stated that the money was being held by someone for him. He was saving up for religious travel,” U.S. […]
Yours truly was interviewed for the article linked below that was published by the American Banker. The article is disappointing. It wasn’t so much what the article says, but what it does not say that bothers me. I spent a great deal of time on the telephone with the author explaining the concerns over Shariah […]
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