Peter Bergen is one of the most overrated men in the Western Hemisphere. He has basically parlayed a creepy interview of Osama Bin Laden in a tent somewhere in the late 1990s into supposed expertise on terrorism. The reality is that Bergen isn’t really much of an expert and there is some evidence that Bergen […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that ivory poaching in Africa funds terrorism in one of the world’s tumultuous regions and could push the elephant species to extinction. “There is growing evidence that the terrorist groups stalking Africa, including Al-Shabaab with its horrific attack on the mall in Nairobi, fund their terrorist activities to […]
Here we have one of the starkest examples yet of the use of Shariah-finance to basically extort borrowers into adhering to Shariah. The head of Nigeria’s central bank all but says that if African nations want to secure funding for their infrastructure projects, they better turn to Islamic finance. Islamic finance is of course a […]
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