Great Britain’s charity regulator has opened an investigation into the policies and practices of the Islamic Education and Research Academy in London… http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/go/news/article/1293452/charity-commission-opens-statutory-inquiry-islamic-charity/
Mo Farah, a British Olympic gold medalist, who resides in Portland, Oregon, has a charitable foundation that has been linked to a controversial Islamic cleric who has urged British Muslims to wage holy war. Farah, who was born in Somalia, set up the Mo Farah Foundation in 2011 to help people affected by drought in the Horn of […]
The inevitable result of Shariah-compliance… Lloyds Bank has been accused of religious discrimination after offering free overdraft accounts to Muslims. While many will have to pay up to £80 a month if they go into the red, Muslims were told they would escape the charges. The document said: “We are removing the monthly overdraft management […]
Chairman of Charity Commission says it will come down hard on charities found funnelling cash to extremist groups. William Shawcross, who took on the role at the Charity Commission in October 2012, said it was “ludicrous” that people with convictions for terrorism or money laundering were not automatically disqualified from setting up charities or becoming […]
A new, important site has been launched in the UK: Sharia Watch… http://www.shariawatch.org.uk The site contains important reports and videos that need to go viral. One of the first articles that Sharia Watch published earlier this month was called: “What’s Wrong with Sharia Compliant Finance? The article details a dozen problems for the West associated with […]
Yet another Islamic charity in Great Britain is being investigated for ties to an Islamic “hate preacher” named Sheikh Yasser al-Habib is known as the “Mullah of Fulmer.” Al-Habib set up Fadak TV – which he uses to broadcast his message around the world – after raising £2million to buy a spacious hall on the outskirts of the […]
British Ministry Seeks Input on Shariah-Compliant Student Loans
A new model for Shariah-compliant student loans has been unveiled recently by British Universities and Science Minister David Willetts. The UK government is seeking feedback from current and prospective students… https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-loans-to-help-muslim-students-go-to-university
Tony Blair Faith Foundation Tied to Muslim Brotherhood
Tony Blair’s religious charity has links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is under investigation by by MI5 and MI6, Great Britain’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies. The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch revealed that Dr Ismail Khudr Al-Shatti, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and a member of Mr Blair’s advisory council, is a leading member […]
The British government is planning to introduce student loans which will be compliant with Shariah law in order to encourage more Muslims to attend colleges and universities in the UK. If ever there was a smoking gun that Shariah-compliant loans were a sham, this is it: The principles of Shariah law recognize the value of […]
Bank of England’s efforts to shill for Shariah escalate
There is no greater cheerleader for Shariah and financial jihad in the Western world than the elected and appointed officials of the United Kingdom… The Bank of England is studying ways to increase the number of sharia-compliant assets that Islamic financial institutions can use in their liquidity buffers, a step towards reducing concentration risks in […]
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 […]
Britain Moves Closer to First Western Issue of Shariah Bond
The UK government is a little closer to its widely anticipated issue of a sovereign sukuk, or Islamic bond. Last October in London during the World Islamic Economic Forum, British prime minister David Cameron announced the UK’s intentions of becoming the first Western country to issue a sukuk. Since then, Luxembourg and Hong Kong have […]
BreitBart.com: London is Shariah City
BreitBart.com has recognized the infiltration of Shariah into the UK via the financial underbelly in an article published last night. Excerpts and link… Britain has six “fully Islamic” banking organisations and government minsters are attempting to attract even more Sharia-compliant finance initiatives to the UK. But concerns will no doubt abound, considering the extra cost […]
India’s most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and Pakistan-linked terrorists and terror groups figure prominently in an updated list of financial sanctions imposed by the British government. Jaish-e-Mohammed or the Army of Mohammed, blamed for the 2001 attack on India’s parliament, featured on the freeze list as a key outfit “based in Peshawar and Muzaffarabad, […]
The Infiltration of the British Financial System Continues
Elected officials in the UK have long expressed the desire for London to become a “mecca” of Shariah finance in the West (pun intended). They have bent over backwards to promote Shariah finance for years. Despite these efforts, statistics show that Shariah banks in the UK lag behind their conventional counterparts. Perhaps this is because […]
The sanctions regime against Iran over its nuclear program and sponsorship of Jihadist terrorism is unfortunately unravelling at an alarming pace. Part and parcel to that process is a disturbing development in which the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom ruled on the side of Bank Mellat in its suit against the British government. Bank […]
As widely reported on the web and here on SFW yesterday, the UK has decided to go ahead and issue a sovereign sukuk. In other words, the United Kingdom will issue a government security that complies with a foreign law. The UK is the first Western nation to do so and British leaders say they […]
For well over a decade, Westerners have watched with concern as the UK has become more and more Islamisized. As part of that insidious process, some 85 Shariah courts currently operate in the country as a parallel legal system. Now the British embrace of Shariah is about to become more complete. As we have reported […]
Islamic Heroin Smuggling Gang Jailed in the UK
It has become common knowledge that Jihad is partially funded by the illegal drug trade. Hezbollah has been known to be active in drug smuggling in the Middle East and Europe and the Taliban probably lead the world in the opium and heroin trade. Over the weekend in the UK, a major heroin smuggling ring […]
The effort by some in the United Kingdom to allow Shariah to infiltrate their legal system and culture through the financial back door continues apace. The latest push saw London’s deputy mayor travel to an “Islamic finance” conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to promote his hometown as a center for Shariah-compliant finance. From ArabianBusiness.com: Britain […]
Wikileaks: Popular Somali Money Transfer Mechanism Used to Fund Al Qaeda
According to Wikileaks documents, the popular Somali money transfer firm, Dahabshiil, has been used to provide money for jihad. The WikiLeaks release of the files of detainees of the US’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility suggested Dahabshiil was the money transfer method used by Muhammad Sulayman Barre to fund al-Qaeda’s November 2002 attacks in Mombasa, Kenya. Partially […]
The excellent Gatestone Institute has an important report posted regarding a UK Islamic charity with apparent connections to funding jihad. The large number of links between Islamic Relief Worldwide and extremist terror groups suggests that buried beneath the cover of a charity lies a structured pro-terror group with an anti-Western agenda. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3792/islamic-relief-worldwide-terrorism
Last week a legal trial revealed “an amazing web of links and collaboration between the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood and affiliated groups in the UAE and other Arab states.” But the trial of 94 Emiratis, which concluded yesterday with conviction of 69 defendants of being members of a clandestine group that plotted to […]
A British minister called for turning London into a global center for Shariah finance on the 69th anniversary of D-Day. “It’s about making Britain the preferred choice for the Muslim world to invest in and do business in,” senior Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi claimed in a speech to the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. “It is […]
Islamic Bank of Britain Promotes 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 […]
Despite the combined efforts of Islamist regimes in the Islamic world and the appeasing government in the United Kingdom, Shariah-Compliant Finance has yet to take off in Britain. In fact, it’s struggling and financial firms are abandoning it. One reason is that the weapon of choice in Shariah-Compliant Finance, sukuk, also known as Islamic bonds […]
For some time London officials and UK finance community executives have expressed the intention of making London the capital of Shariah-compliant finance in the West. Now they are taking their aims to a whole new level as they contemplate pushing for the United Kingdom to issue sovereign debt in the form of Shariah-compliant bonds, known […]
Note that this mechanism is essentially a convoluted construct to replicate interest payments, without calling them interest payments… The Islamic Bank of Britain has reported a 63% rise in take-up of its home financing products for the first three quarters of 2012. The growth in demand for the Sharia-compliant bank’s alternative to mortgages was fuelled […]
UK Clothier Enforces Shariah Law Among All Employees
This is a story that has been going viral on the web. The memo depicted in this post speaks for itself, but essentially what Boo Hoo (the name of the business) is doing is enforcing Shariah law at the expense of the rights of its non-Muslim employees. This is becoming more common all the time. […]
Shariah Finance Dawah Continues Apace in Britain
One of the worst kept secrets in the world of Shariah Finance is the fact that, despite great efforts on the part of financial jihadists with obsequious assistance from British political leaders, demand for Shariah-compliant financial products and banking is lacking. Nevertheless, the Shariah Finance industry is continuing its dawah operations there… Sharia finance to […]
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