CAIR Shills for Al Shabaab Terror Financiers
On May 20, 2013 · In Al Shabaab, CAIR, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Somalia, Terror Funding, Zakat
The Council on American Islamic Relations, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing prosecution in US history, is now rushing to the defense of two women convicted on material support for terrorism charges. SFW has previously covered this case, in which two Minnesota women, Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, [...]
Islamic Bank of Britain Promotes Zakat
On May 19, 2013 · In Britain, Islamic Banking, Islamic Finance, Jihad, Shariah Banking, Shariah Finance, Terror Funding, United Kingdom, Zakat
One of the most troubling and controversial aspects of Shariah-Compliant Finance is the system of zakat that plays a key role for Shariah-compliance. Zakat is a system of tithing in Islam, except that it goes way beyond what Westerners think of as “tithing” or “alms giving.” While some in the Shariah Finance industry deny that [...]
An Uzbekistan national pleaded not guilty and said little during his first court appearance Friday on U.S. charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack there. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested Thursday. Prosecutors have said little about the details of [...]
New York law enforcement authorities have arrested 15 Palestinian Muslims in a bootleg cigarette scheme that appears to have been primed to send money to Jihadist organizations overseas. This harkens back to the bootleg cigarette scheme taken down in North Carolina in 1998, which was the subject of the excellent book, “Lightning Out of Lebanon.” [...]
The United Nations is at it again. All too often the UN puts offending nations in charge of problems that the international community is supposed to be trying to solve. The latest example involves the United Nations conference on combating terror finance being held in Sudan, one of the world’s leading sponsors of Jihadist terrorism. [...]
Lawfare to Attack Terrorism Financiers
On April 22, 2013 · In Islamic Banking, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, lawfare, Shariah Banking, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
Many SFW readers are very aware that the Jihadists effectively use “lawfare” to suppress free speech in the West and to try to prevent any scrutiny of Islamic doctrine. Some of that lawfare has been directed against those who point out those who finance Jihad. The most notable example was the libel tourism lawsuit against [...]
In the wake of last week’s horrific Jihadist terrorist attack in Boston, we have seen very little discussion as to the possible financial aspects of the Tsarnaev brothers’ Jihad. By all accounts, the Tsarnaevs were far from destitute. Yet there is no indication anywhere that they had jobs. They evidently had credit cards, so their transactions can [...]
Islamic Charities Revealed: Bankrollers of Terror
On March 16, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF), Ansar al-Sharia Tunisia (AST), Hamas, Islamic charities, Jemaah Islamiyah, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Kuwait, Lashkar e Taiba, Qatar, Qatar Charitable Society, Qatar Charity, Qatar Islamic Society, Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS), Saudi Arabia, Syria, Syrian Islamic Front (SIF), Terror Funding, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), Zakat
Foreign Policy magazine recently published an excellent article on the role of Islamic charities in funding Jihadist terrorism, something we’ve been writing about here on SFW for several years now. Authors Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aaron Y. Zelin detail in the article how Islamic NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) are bankrolling terrorist organizations under the guise of “aid.” [...]
Regular readers of SFW may recall this case of the Imam of a mosque in Florida, who was accused of sending $50,000 to the Taliban. We have posted on the case a couple of times since it opened almost 2 years ago: http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2011/05/16/two-florida-imams-four-other-american-muslims-arrested-for-financing-the-taliban/ http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2013/01/12/florida-prosecutors-submit-wiretaps-bank-records-in-terrorism-trial-of-imams/ We finally are approaching closure in this case, with the conviction [...]
Paul Aster has an excellent report over on the Investigative Project’s web site about a federal judge’s decision last week clearing the way for French banking giant Credit Lyonnais to face a civil trial for allowing funds to reach the Jihadist terrorist group HAMAS through an Islamic charity: Judge Clears Path for Trial Against French [...]
PORTLAND, OR—Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Portland, has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists for the assistance he allegedly provided to an individual who participated in a May 27, 2009 suicide bomb attack at the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in Lahore, Pakistan, that [...]
The Latest Fallout from Europe’s Ransom Payments to Al Qaeda
On March 5, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Ransoms, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, Yemen
Readers may recall the post we published on 10 February regarding the millions of dollars reportedly paid to Al Qaeda by European nations in the form of ransoms to win the release of hostages: http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2013/02/10/former-us-diplomat-europeans-canada-paid-89-million-ransom-to-al-qaeda/ Now we have the latest tragic example of the fallout from those misguided policies. Al Qaeda has released a video [...]
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the first bombing of the World Trade Center by Jihadists terrorists. Though that attack was not successful in its objective of bringing the towers down, it killed 6 innocent civilians and wounded 1,000 more. As we have often said on SFW, money is the fuel for Jihad. Terrorism [...]
We almost have closure on a story we’ve been following for some time, the federal trial in San Diego of four Somalis who were working to provide funding and other forms of support to the Jihadist terrorist organization Al Shabaab back in their home country of Somalia. Significantly, one of the defendants found guilty is [...]
The San Diego trial of four Somali immigrants charged with raising money and providing help to the terrorist group al-Shabaab largely boils down to who jurors believe is on the other end of numerous phone calls the government secretly taped five years ago. The three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller wrapped up Tuesday [...]
Israeli Official: Hezbollah Heavily Funded From Europe
On February 20, 2013 · In Europe, European Union, Hezbollah, Islamic charities, Israel, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror Funding
Israel’s Civil Defense Minister, Avi Dichter, told the Jerusalem Post that Hezbollah receives major funding out of Europe, including through Islamic charities, and emphasized that it is necessary for the European Union to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization to curtail that funding: A decision by the European Union to blacklist Hezbollah would interrupt the group’s [...]
New York Times: How Europe Bankrolls Terror
On February 18, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Europe, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
As SFW reported a week ago, European governments have been bankrolling Al Qaeda and its affiliates by paying ransoms when their citizens have been taken hostage: http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2013/02/10/former-us-diplomat-europeans-canada-paid-89-million-ransom-to-al-qaeda/ The New York Times provides a few new details…and the numbers involved appear to be growing…we reported $89 million a week ago and the Times is now reporting [...]
US Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Al Qaeda Leader in North Africa
On February 15, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Sanctions, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
In what can best be described as a symbolic gesture, the US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Yahya Abu Hammam, who is a leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: The Treasury described the Algeria-born Abu Hammam as the AQIM leader for the Sahel, a vast and arid region of North Africa, and said [...]
The involvement of wealthy Saudis and Saudi charities in funding Al Qaeda and other Jihadist terrorist organizations has been extensively documented for years, including by the US Treasury Department. One such individual is Soliman al-Buthe, who is currently a Saudi government official and previously started a charity here in the United States in Oregon that has [...]
Hezbollah: The World’s Most Dangerous “Charity”
On February 11, 2013 · In Europe, European Union, Hezbollah, Islamic charities, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
Here at SFW, we have devoted a great deal of time and effort to education on the nefarious aspects of many Islamic charities. Over and over again we have seen examples of Islamic charities supporting violent Jihad. Most American observers first became aware of this activity with the release of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report [...]
French Politician: “Our friend Qatar is financing Mali’s Islamists”
On February 10, 2013 · In France, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Mali, Qatar, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
For years Western intelligence has known that the Wahhabi-run nation of Qatar has been financing Jihad. The financing has come in the form of protection payments from the government itself to keep Jihadists from attacking the tiny monarchy and in the form of support payments (zakat and otherwise) from wealthy Qatari individuals. France has now [...]
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, [...]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Demands $50 Million Ransom for Hostages’ Release
On February 10, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, Yemen
Money is the lifeblood of jihad and the jihadists raise money any number of ways…including ransoms. This past Friday, a tribal leader stated that Yemen’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, which is holding three kidnapped Europeans hostage, has demanded $50 million for the foreigners’ release. “The organization demanded the money from the military leader who has been situated [...]
A former U.S. ambassador to Mali has alleged that France paid a $17 million ransom to free hostages seized from a French mining site – cash she said ultimately funded the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants its troops are now fighting. French officials, whose soldiers are pushing north into the territory where the missing captives are believed [...]
Jihadist pleaded guilty to attempted bombing of New York Federal Reserve Bank
On February 10, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Bangaladesh, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, terrorism, US Federal Reserve, USA
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 [...]
Al Qaeda offers $160,000 in gold for murder of US ambassador to Yemen
On January 11, 2013 · In Al Qaeda, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism, Yemen
It seems that it is “open season” on US ambassadors these days. Before the assassination of the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, last year, the last time a US ambassador had been killed was 32 years earlier when the US ambassador to Afghanistan was murdered. Now, Al Qaeda is targeting another US ambassdor: Gerald [...]
Federal Reserve Bomb Plotter Inspired By Al Awlaki Sermons
On January 11, 2013 · In Al-Awlaki, Bangaladesh, Jihad, Jihadist Groups/Individuals, Terror, Terror Funding, terrorism
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, the man being prosecuted for plotting to bomb the Federal Reserve Reserve Bank of New York, was inspired by the sermons of the late Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al Awlaki. Nafis was in possession of several recordings of al Awlaki’s Jihadist ramblings. SFW readers may recall [...]
A man convicted of attempting to fund an Al Qaeda affiliate has been sentenced to just 8 years in prison by a French court. This seems like a ridiculous sentence for someone who was trying to send money to the world’s most notorious Jihadist terrorist organization… Irfan Demirtas, 53, was found guilty of financing terrorism [...]
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 [...]
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