An elderly Muslim cleric on trial for allegedly funneling tens of thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban terrorist organization vehemently denied Tuesday any connection to Islamic extremists and insisted he does not harbor anti-U.S. views. Today, he will, again, head to court. Taking the witness stand in his own defense, 77-year-old Hafiz Khan rejected [...]
West Point Report: Haqqani network supported by “rich donors”
On August 28, 2012 · In Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Drug trafficking, Emirates, Haqqani network, Islamic charities, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Kuwait, Money Laundering, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Finance, Taqiyya, Terror Funding, Zakat
By way of CNN, we have still more evidence of financial support for violent jihad by wealthy Muslims in the Persian Gulf region. The Haqqani network is one of the most virulent Jihadist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been battling US troops for several years. It is closely allied with both Al Qaeda and [...]
More Details on Funding for the Taliban
On April 24, 2012 · In Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Hawala, Islamic charities, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Money Laundering, Taliban, Terror Funding, Uncategorized, Zakat
Not long ago we mentioned that the Taliban had gone online to raise money for their violent Jihadi activities. In that same post we mentioned that US intelligence sources had indicated that most of the Taliban’s financing sources remained intact since US forces engineered their overthrow way back in 2001. This continued financing provides one [...]
The Taliban have appealed for donations on one of their websites, to finance the Jihad against non-Muslims. Complete with telephone hotlines and email addresses, the appeal was posted on a Taliban website asking Muslims worldwide to help the rebels in what they say is a “Jihad”, or a holy war, against non-Muslim “invaders”. … “In [...]
British taxpayers’ money meant for destroying Afghanistan’s poppy crop was instead used to fund Al Qaeda. The Daily Mail quoted documents leaks by Wikileaks as saying that over 300,000 pounds of British aid budget was paid to Afghan politician, Mullan Haji Rohullah, but he used it to support Al Qaeda while continuing to traffic in [...]
Afghanistan’s central bank expects an Islamic banking law to be enacted by September. The central bank’s sharia board will meet Sunday to finalize the law, said Muhammed Qaseem Rahimi, director general of the central bank’s Financial Supervision Department. It will then go to the Justice Ministry and parliament for approval. “Most of the people who [...]
A report published by the London School of Economics asserts that the Pakistani intelligence agency not only funds and trains Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement’s leadership council, giving it significant influence over operations. Research in support of the report strongly suggested support for the Taliban was the “official policy” [...]
Another Saudi Charity Implicated in Funding Terrorism Continues Operations
On September 15, 2009 · In Afghanistan, Islamic charities, Jihad, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Terror, Terror Funding, Zakat
The excellent Counterterrorism Blog has vital information today on Al-Haramain, a Saudi charity that has been fingered by the UN and the US Treasury Department for financing terrorism. What have the Saudis done about it? Not a thing…it’s hard to prosecute someone for doing what Shariah says to do I guess… http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/09/al-haramain_foundation_in_news.php
The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr Richard Holbrooke, says that Taliban militants are receiving more funding from their sympathisers abroad than from Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade. Mr Holbrooke says: “More money is coming from the Gulf than is coming from the drug trade to the Taliban.” Holbrooke thinks the governments in the [...]
Yesterday a British newspaper attempted to spell out for its readers just what Shariah is. Their efforts were not successful. In the article, author Nick Harries, claims that in Saudi Arabia and Sudan, Shariah exists alongside secular law. This is completely incorrect. Shariah is the full and final authority in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Iran [...]
The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of an audio message from Sheikh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (a.k.a. “Sheikh Saeed”). In May 2007, Al-Qaeda’s official As-Sahab Media Wing identified al-Yazid as “the overall head of al-Qaeda Organization in Afghanistan.” According to As-Sahab, al-Yazid “took part in founding al-Qaeda in 1989, and is a member of the [...]
Islamic charities continue to fund the Taliban
On June 5, 2009 · In Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islam, Islamic charities, Islamic Law, Jihad, Qaradawi, Sharia Compliant, Shariah Boards, Shariah Councils, Shariah Finance, Shariah Law, Taliban, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, Uncategorized, Usmani, Zakat
Regular readers of SFW know that we have devoted a considerable amount of space to covering financial support from Muslim charities for Jihadist organizations: http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/category/islamic-charities/ This is of particular relevance to Shariah-Compliant Finance because of the practice of zakat–a form of required tithing in Islam. Shariah-compliant firms donate 1/40, or 2.5%, of their assets through [...]
Periodically, SFW shines the light on the non-financial aspects of shariah, since the purpose of shariah-compliant finance in the first place is to promote shariah. Today we have two stories about human rights abuses under shariah authorities. The first comes to us from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where a couple was sentenced to death for eloping… http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7997749.stm [...]
Al Qaeda endorses Shariah-Compliant Finance
On March 17, 2009 · In Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Islamic Economics, Qaradawi, Shariah Finance, terrorism
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a German-language video recording of German Al-Qaida member Bekkay Harrach (a.k.a. “Abu Talha the German”) produced by the As-Sahaab Media Foundation. During the video, titled “Islam and the Finance Crisis”, Harrach asked, “Where are the taxes that the German people now need so urgently? They are spent in [...]
The Result of Pakistan’s Separate Peace With The Taliban: The End of Women’s Rights
On February 25, 2009 · In Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Human Rights under Shariah, Human Rights under Shariah Law, Islamic Law, Jihad, Pakistan, Polygamy, Shariah and Children, Shariah and the Arts, Shariah Law, Taliban, Women's Rights Under Shariah Law
The article below from Dawn.com needs very little introduction. It vividly describes how the brutal Taliban use Shariah against women. This article should be made required reading for every financial CEO in the West that has decided to embrace Shariah through Shariah-Compliant Finance. http://dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/dawn%20content%20library/dawn/news/pakistan/Whither-Swats-women–il
The Jihadists have beheaded another helpless civilian, this time a Pole. Unlike many nations, Poland appears to have a president with the right attitude. We wish the Poles godspeed as they seek to punish those who committed this atrocity.
The true nature of Shariah
On January 20, 2009 · In Afghanistan, Christianity and Islam, Human Rights under Shariah, Human Rights under Shariah Law, Islamic Law, Jihad, Pakistan, Shariah Law, Somalia, Taliban, Uncategorized
Though this blog is dedicated to Shariah-Compliant Finance, no discussion of Shariah-Compliant Finance can be complete without constant reminders of the brutal, primitive doctrine which underlies Shariah-Compliant Finance. Shariah is an all-encompassing code of life that covers and applies to all aspects of Islamic individuals, culture, society, finance and law. The nations that apply Shariah [...]
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan by strict Shariah, girls were forbidden from going to school. Since their overthrow, the Taliban have carried out brutal revenge attacks on female students… KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan [...]
Subject: Fwd: Support An SPME Petition- October 27, 2008 To: The Governments of Afghanistan and Iran and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights <http://www.spme.net/admin/images/blnk.gif> We, the undersigned academics from all disciplines from around the world do hereby call upon and demand that the governments of Afghanistan release student Sayed Perwiz [...]
Lawyer demands release of reporter on death rowwww.britishblogs.uk KABUL: The lawyer of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death on blasphemy charges accused authorities yesterday of holding his client beyond a legal deadline. The appeal of Perwiz Kambakhsh — arrested last October and sentenced to death by a primary court in January — has been repeatedly [...]
Tom Blackwell , Canwest News Servicephoto of another woman being murdered by the Taliban. go to www.rawa.org to read about other human rights abuses. Published: Sunday, September 28, 2008 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – As Afghanistan’s most senior and most famous female police officer, based in the country’s ultra-conservative south, Lieut.-Col. Malalai Kakar knew she was a [...]
20 years’ jail for errors in Koran translation From correspondents in Kabulwww.freewebs.com September 13, 2008 06:34am Article from: Agence France-Presse AN Afghan court has sentenced an ex-journalist and a mullah to 20 years in prison each for publishing a translation of the Koran alleged to contain errors, friends and media rights groups said today. [...]
Wajid Shamsul Hasan www.prideofpakistan.com Richard Edwards, London September 16, 2008 THE unprecedented raids by the US inside Pakistan could provoke terrorist attacks in London, Pakistan’s high commissioner to Britain has warned. Wajid Shamsul Hasan said the attacks on Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects were making the streets of Britain less safe and that resentment was [...]
www.freeweb.com AN Afghan court has sentenced an ex-journalist and a mullah to 20 years in prison each for publishing a translation of the Koran alleged to contain errors, friends and media rights groups said today. Afghan and international media rights organisations condemned the sentences handed down yesterday and called on President Hamid Karzai to [...]
Blasphemy case shows Afghan divide Alastair Leithead BBC News, Kabul Sayed Pervez Kambaksh’s sentence has generated much controversy In Kabul’s grim and crowded central prison, a 23-year-old student from northern Afghanistan spends each day wondering if and when he will be put to death. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh was sentenced in January, in five minutes, at [...]
Posted by: T2M - http://www.the-two-malcontents.com Click here to see video of the execution. Warning: graphic images. Perhaps it’s the camera lens that distorts the colors of the hijabs and time of day and the women apparently changed positions but, does something seem out of place here? Via FOX news: The Afghan journalist who filmed and photographed [...]
http://pogger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/clip-image0031.jpg These are photos from one of the most virulent of the Arabic Forums Al Ekhlass. They are supposedly of two prostitutes who have been friendly to the Cross Severs. Which in Afghanistan could mean they merely spoke to NATO or American troops, worked for our Military as translators or were accused by someone in [...]
Are we Losing the War against Militancy? By Zahid Hussain The Price of Peace For almost two days, Jandola – a dusty small town on the main road into South Waziristan – was at the mercy of armed followers of Baitullah Mehsud. They pulled out members of rival tribes from their [...]
RUNNING FOR HER LIFE Afghan Athlete Seeks Asylum in Europe Mehboba Ahdyar was to be the poster-child for the Olympics but the 19-year-old Afghan runner ran away from an Italian training camp last week. She has since told her parents she is too scared of reprisals and plans to seek asylum in Europe. Mehboba Ahdyar [...]
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