Shariah adherents infiltrating Ohio state treasurer’s office?

On November 1, 2010 · In Amana Funds, Creeping Shariah, Divest Terror, divestment, fiqh council of north america, Islamic charities, Islamic Equity Funds, Islamic Finance, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Finance, Terror Funding, U.S. Policymakers

Incumbent Ohio treasurer Kevin Boyce has handed control of his office over to his top staffer, Deputy Treasurer Amer Ahmad, who has a habit of hanging around people who are well-known for ties to Islamic radicals and terrorists. Ahmad does so in his professional capacity, as well as in his personal life, choosing to attend an [...]

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Kiplinger Shills for Shariah

On October 18, 2010 · In Amana Funds, Islamic Equity Funds, Islamic Finance, Islamic Law, Shariah Finance, Shariah Law, Uncategorized

It is usually a mistake to write about something you know nothing about. This is advice that Janet Bodnar of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance should follow. In a new column, she decided to praise the Amana group of mutual funds for adhering to Islamic law. We assume that Ms. Bodnar knows nothing about “Islamic law,” properly [...]

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Qaradawi, Zakat and Shariah-Compliant Finance in the USA

On May 8, 2010 · In "Ethical Investment", Amana Funds, Investments, Islamic charities, Islamic Finance, Jihad, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Finance, stealth jihad, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, Zakat

Yesterday, SFW posted a disturbing article detailing Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi’s instructions on zakat (Islamic alms giving): http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2010/05/07/more-definitive-proof-of-zakat-funding-jihad/ Some readers may be skeptical that the views of a man living in Qatar, as expressed to another man living in Egypt, would be relevant in the United States. Not only are Qaradawi’s views relevant because he is [...]

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A Caliphate of Toxic Assets

On June 30, 2009 · In AIG, Amana Funds, Citigroup, Hizb ut-Tahrir, HSBC, Islamic Banking, Islamic Bonds, Islamic Economics, Islamic Equity Funds, Islamic Finance, Islamic Law, Jihad, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Sharia Products, Shariah Banking, Shariah Finance, Shariah insurance, Shariah Law, Terror Funding

Alyssa A. Lappen has been writing about Shariah and Shariah-Compliant Finance for quite some time and there are few, if any, writers who are as informed on these subjects as she.  Her latest work appears on FrontPageMag.com and we enthusiastically recommend it to our readers… http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35378

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Personal Finance: …and a donation to the Muslim Brotherhood

On May 15, 2009 · In "Ethical Investment", Amana Funds, CAIR, Hamas, Ikhwan, Investments, Islamic Banking, Islamic charities, Islamic Finance, Islamic Law, Islamization, murabaha, Muslim Brotherhood, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Finance, Shariah Mortgage, Terror Funding

This week, CNN and Money magazine ran an article focusing on the role of faith in the personal finances of certain families. In the article which they published which deals with a Muslim family, we have discovered a whole slew of questions with regard to matters outside of personal finance which, not surprisingly, the lapdogs [...]

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The American Spectator’s Quin Hillyer focuses on Shariah Finance

On April 10, 2009 · In Amana Funds, Center for Security Policy, Divest Terror, divestment, Iran, Islamic Banking, Islamic charities, Islamic Finance, Islamic Law, Islamization, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Banking, Shariah Finance, Shariah Law, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, USA, Usmani, Zakat

Blocking the Funds of Terrorists It was treated as big news on Tuesday when Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau indicted Chinese executive Li Fang Wei and his company for using New York banks to finance the sale of tons of restricted, weapons-related material to Iran. But the truth is that some of these same banks [...]

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Baloney from the Bee

On April 3, 2009 · In Amana Funds, fiqh, fiqh council of north america, Islamic charities, Islamic Equity Funds, Islamic Finance, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Sharia Products, Shariah Boards, Shariah Councils, Shariah Finance, Uncategorized, Zakat

All too frequently, an article will appear in the news media extolling the virtues of “Islamic” finance as a way to protect wealth from the ravages of the current financial crisis. When we first came across a recent article in the Sacramento Bee, we figured that we had another case of this and were prepared [...]

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