Bandow: Saudi Arabia funding creates breeding ground for Jihad
posted by Christopher W Holton Doug Bandow, writing in the Orange County Register, reminds us that Saudi Arabia has created breeding grounds for Jihadists around the world. Excerpts and link below… Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have attacked their neighbor, Qatar, for supposedly supporting terrorism. They pretend to be firefighters, but spent years […]
posted by Christopher W Holton Down in Australia, Zakaria Zaatiti is being tried for shooting two teenagers back in August. Details of the shooting aren’t complete in the article linked below but we do know that Zaatiti was denied bail, at least partially because he had conducted internet searches for “rocket propelled grenade,” “Islamic State,” […]
Why It’s a Bad Idea for Western Financial Firms to Get Involved in Zakat
by Christopher W Holton The issue of zakat is one that is central to the concerns about Shariah-compliant finance, but concerns about zakat should extend far beyond Shariah finance alone. Zakat is a real threat because it is doctrinal in Islam and no figure, organization or body in Islam has the authority to change it. […]
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 […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton John Guandolo of Understanding the Threat has posted a brief article on the role of zakat in funding Jihad… https://www.understandingthethreat.com/muslims-paying-zakat-are-funding-terrorism/ UTT has also posted a brief video on the subject… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNwsY1FeLko
Australia and Germany Cease Funding for World Vision
posted by Christopher W. Holton As we reported here a few days ago, World Vision, a Christian charity with a clear anti-Israel bias, was charged in Israel with funding HAMAS, a Jihadist terrorist organization, thanks to the actions of one of the charity’s leading Muslim employees. Now, Australia and Germany have decided that funding World […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton There are growing concerns in Australia that the country’s Muslim population has become a surreptitious source of funding for Jihad across Asia… http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/australia-monitoring-terrorist-groups-in-asia-for-funding-links/7711802 Meanwhile, Australia has set up a special unit to track such payments over the Internet… Australia has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money […]
by Christopher W. Holton Long-time readers of SFW know that the subject of Islamic charities funding Jihadist terrorism is one of the topics we have covered most closely and frequently over the years. Scores of Islamic charities worldwide, including right here in the USA, have been implicated in funding jihad. You can read all about […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Saudi Arabia has long been a major incubator for global jihad, both violent and civilizational. It isn’t the only country that has promoted Islamic supremicism, but it is certainly the wealthiest. The Saudis’ enormous wealth has enabled them to greatly influence the political process here in America and even enlist […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton Mohammed Iqbal Hussain, aged 25, and Mohamed Suyaubur Rohaman, 32, who live in Castle Road, Walsall Wood are accused of sending £10,000 to their suspected terrorist brother and his wife fighting in Syria. The brothers, who worked in the family laundrette business in Walsall, are accused of transferring the money to […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton In a significant and stunning development, banking and financial services giant HSBC, which in the past has been cited for violating sanctions against Iran, has taken the bold, admirable move of cutting ties to one of the world’s largest Islamic charities, Islamic Relief, due to fears that funds controlled by […]
Captured Documents Detail Islamic State’s Revenue Streams
Documents captured by U.S. Special Operations Forces in a May raid in Syria reveal how the Islamic State has established departments to handle “war spoils,” including slaves, and the exploitation of natural resources, especially oil. The documents detail how a formerly small Jihadist insurgent organization has set up a sophisticated bureaucracy to handle revenue streams – from stolen oil to looted antiquities. http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-seized-documents-reveal-islamic-states-department-war-061002683.html
Financial Trail Indicates Islamic State Presence Spreading to Indonesia
Some of the Indonesian men arrested at the weekend after tip-offs that they were planning a string of militant attacks had received funding from Syria, hardening evidence of their links to Islamic State, police said on Monday. “They received transfers of funds … they have a connection with Syria,” national police spokesman Anton Charliyan told […]
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 […]
Money Jihad blog has an important report posted that indicates that the chairman of the board of Islami Bank Bangladesh, Limited (IBBL), Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, was a leading member of a Jihadist militia. http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/sharia-bankers-former-life-as-terrorist-exposed-by-shocking-allegation/
An Islamic charity accused by Canadian government auditors of sending almost $15-million to the Palestinian jihadist terrorist group HAMAS has been raided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who report to have seized an “extensive amount” of evidence. Police teams searched the office of the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, as well as […]
Germany Outlaws Islamic Charity for Funding Hezbollah
An Islamic charity known as the “Orphan Children Project Lebanon” (Waisenkinderprojekt Libanon) was recently shut down by German authorities in police raids for raising millions of euros for Hezbollah and the families of suicide bombers. The organization, based in the western city of Essen, had raised €3.3 million in donations between 2007 and 2013 for the Lebanese […]
Money Jihad blog uncovered an important report from Thomson Reuters which details financing for the Islamic terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf, which operates in the Philippines. In the report, an entire section is devoted to zakat funding for Abu Sayyaf, particularly from Saudi Arabia. Thomson Reuters maintains that the zakat money is only coming from Filipino expatriates […]
A Moroccan Jihadist who plotted to turn a radio-controlled model airplane into a drone-like flying bomb and crash it into a school and a Connecticut federal building was arrested Monday by the FBI. El Mehdi Semlali Fahti told an undercover agent in five recorded conversations that he studied the bomb attack operation for months, and had […]
A Turkish charity known as İMKANDER has held rallies across Turkey in memory of Doku Umarov, the former emir of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate whose death was announced by the jihadist group just last week. The Islamic Caucasus Emirate aims to establish an independent Islamic state ruled under Shariah and to wage global jihad. The rallies took place […]
Philippines: And now…Jihad with Money
In two days, the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will sign a peace treaty, ostensibly to end the decades-old Jihadist insurgency on the island of Mindanao. The advisability of entering into a peace treaty with a Jihadist terrorist organization is certainly debatable to say the least, and even before the […]
North Carolina Jihadis Planned to Use Charity as Cover
Two North Carolina men were arrested on terrorism charges this week with plans to travel to Yemen and Syria to join the Jihad. Of particular interest is the cover story they concocted in case they were caught. It’s hard to believe that these two thought this cover story up on their own… The pair planned […]
The Gatestone Institute reports that Spanish authorities have broken up a Jihadi ring that was recruiting for and financing overseas Jihad operations: Spanish officials say the cell, based in southern Spain, was one of the largest of its kind in Europe and responsible for recruiting more jihadists than any other network discovered in Spain so […]
CAIR offered Sheriff $15,000 to Shut Down Terror Training
Despite pressure tactics, threats and even a $15,000 cash bribe from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to shut down a recent counter-terrorism training program for Virginia law enforcement, the training took place as scheduled, albeit with extra security. Washington-based CAIR, an Islamic lobbying group shunned by the FBI due to its ties to terrorist groups, […]
A $4 million ransom was reportedly paid to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front for the release of 13 Greek Orthodox nuns that were held hostage by the Jihadist group for four months. They hostages were released in a deal between the Syrian Assad regime and Jihadists of the Al Nusra Front, brokered by Qatar, a […]
Police have made eight arrests as part of an investigation into whether funds donated to help people in Syria is being stolen and used to finance terrorism. The money, which came from four UK-based charities, was taken by police who believed it could be used for criminal or terrorist activities instead of paying for food […]
Report: Tunisia Targets Terror Financiers
Tunisia will freeze assets of individuals and entities with terrorism ties. Moveable assets, real estate, securities and financial instruments would be subject to the measure, the finance ministry announced on February 25th. The move is part of efforts to stop money laundering. The decision to enforce the policy now will help authorities tighten control over […]
The military web site Strategy Page has an interesting synopsis of the largely successful efforts to counter jihad in Bangladesh. In that synopsis, the folks at Strategy Page detail the role of Islamic charities in supporting and spreading jihad: JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh) survived largely through the efforts of local and foreign Islamic charities, including al […]
Police investigating four British charities that send “aid” to Syria arrested eight men this morning on suspicion that donations were being used to fund the opposition against President Bashar al-Assad. The raids on homes and business addresses follow an investigation into the seizure of £44,000 cash from an aid convoy preparing to leave Dover in […]
The Islamization of Turkey has been accompanied by that nation’s increasing closeness to groups and individuals associated with Jihadist terrorism. That trend has been reported in a variety of media: http://terrortrendsbulletin.com/2013/12/31/turkeys-erdogan-tied-to-designated-saudi-terrorist/ The extent of those ties to Jihad–and specifically the financing of Jihadist terrorism–has now been detailed in an excellent report published by the Foundation […]
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