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, […]
Al Qaeda financier Dawood Ibrahim implicated in cricket scandals
Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India for some 1993 Mumbai car bombings in which 257 people were killed. He is also wanted by the United States, which designated him as a global terrorist back in 2003. Indian authorities, who tend to have very good human intelligence, believe that Ibrahim lives and operates his criminal empire […]
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 […]
Latest official documents show that over Rs650 million (just over $10 million) have been paid to the Taliban by Pakistani businessmen during the last 18 months alone. The billions of rupees paid have not been reported to the police and agencies, and the businessmen have dealt secretly with the Taliban to save their lives. Documents […]
Back on 29 July, SFW reported that the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) Canadian wing had been implicated in sending money to a Pakistani charity that was essentially a front for funding Jihad: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2013/07/29/islamic-society-of-north-america-isna-canada-fingered-for-financial-support-of-terrorism-in-kashmir/ Now, we have the latest update from Canada on this situation. The Canadian federal government’s charity watchdog has revoked ISNA’s […]
OpEdNews Column: The Dark Side of Saudi Petrodollars
There is a nice column over on OpEdNews by a man named Brian Lynch touching on Saudi Arabia’s funding of Jihadist terrorism. The column doesn’t break any new ground, but it does provide links to other recent columns by other authors dealing with the same subject matter. It is also interesting in that the column […]
Charity Navigator is supposed to be a watchdog for philanthropists to help them make responsible and sound decisions as to where to donate their time and money. Evidently, Charity Navigator is limited in its scope to the extent that ties to organizations that support officially-designated terrorist organizations evidently are not disqualified from a high rating. […]
The US Treasury has sanctioned a top Al Qaeda official and a madrassa in Peshawar, Pakistan for serving as a terrorist training center supporting Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan based terrorist group behind the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. Targeting Jamia Taleem-Ul-Quran-Wal-Hadith Madrassa, also known as the Ganj madrassa, the Treasury department said the Peshawar based religious school […]
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is the largest Muslim organization in North America. It has key connections with members of the Obama administration and is frequently cited by the media as representative of the Muslim community. Many people recall that ISNA was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial–the […]
Here is another important article from the Gatestone Institute. Long-time SFW readers may recall our work over the years on the funding of Lashkar e Taiba through the Islamic charity Jamaat ud Dawa and other channels: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/category/lashkar-e-taiba/ Gatestone has an update on this topic well worth reading: Pakistan has just allocated over $4,000,000 for a […]
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 […]
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 […]
$200 Million Islamic credit card scam in New Jersey
Eighteen people have been charged in what federal prosecutors in New Jersey called one of the largestcredit card fraud schemes ever uncovered by the U.S. Department of Justice, spanning 28 states and eight countries. “The defendants are part of a massive international fraud enterprise involving thousands of false identities, fraudulent identification documents, doctored credit reports and more than $200 […]
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 […]
The Wall Street Journal Weighs In On Al Goreeza: Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera…and about Dow Jones too
We’re glad to see that the Wall Street Journal has weighed in on the nefarious aspects of Al Jazeera, echoing what we reported here on SFW last week: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2013/01/03/al-gore-sells-out-to-qatar-state-owned-al-jazeera-buys-current-tv/ It’s worth pointing out some of the highlights in the Journal’s article: …the network reflects the interests of the government that runs it—making it akin to […]
Money Jihad blog’s short list of Shariah banks that fund terrorism
Money Jihad blog is one of the most invaluable web sites in existence for anyone who is concerned with how Jihadist terrorism is supported and funded. That is why we link to it so frequently here on SFW. Money Jihad’s latest work is a prime example of why we like the blog so much: they have […]
Pakistani Railways Minister Offers Al Qaeda $100,000 to Kill Mohammed Filmmaker
A Pakistani cabinet minister on Saturday offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the person behind the anti-Islam video made in the United States that has roiled Muslims around the world, even suggesting that Taliban and Al Qaeda militants could carry out the killing. Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, the federal railways minister, said at a […]
In a blatant example of taqiyya (sacred deception permissible under Shariah law), Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Islamic charity that bankrolls Lashkar-e-Taiba in general and the Mumbai terrorist attacks in particular, is attempting to disavow any connection to the terrorist organization. This ploy comes on the heels of the US Treasury Department dsignating 8 Lashkar-e-Taiba members as terrorists. […]
“Ethical Investing” from Countries Overrun With Corruption?
Transparency.org has publishes a Corruption Perceptions Index that rates the level of corruption in the world’s nations. The most recent year for which there is data is 2011. The results are instructive for observers of Shariah Compliant Finance. Shariah-Compliant Finance is often touted by the financial jihadists as “ethical” investment. There are a variety of […]
West Point Report: Haqqani network supported by “rich donors”
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 evidence of zakat funding for the Taliban
Here we have more evidence of zakat funding for Taliban jihadis. Note that this article refers to “forced zakat,” but Shariah law texts, such as Reliance of the Traveller, list such funding as a proper destination for zakat funds… Taliban collect funds through extortion, forced zakat, officials say …The militants have also threatened tribe members […]
A report in Pakistani media indicates that one of the Islamic world’s most notorious charities has been making appeals for zakat funds using Twitter. Jamaatud Dawa is considered the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jihadist terrorist organization that carried out the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. In fact, in 2008, after the Mumbai attack, the United […]
The Pakistani Jihadist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the bloody Mumbai terrorist attack in India, funded one of the attacker’s year-long visit to Saudi Arabia to recruit young Indian men who were visiting in Saudi Arabia… Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba financed the procurement of work permits by Mumbai terror attacks suspect Abu Jundal for […]
Zakat Support for Madrassas
Madrassas have been in the news quite a lot lately, mostly associated with a ludicrous speech given by Congressman Andre Carson praising these Islamic schools as a model for education in the US. The reality, naturally, is far different. In the Islamic world, particularly in the Middle East and southwest Asia, madrassas are widely used […]
Here we have another obscure, but at the same time blatant, example of charity in Islam being used to fund violent Jihad… “…police on Thursday arrested four persons for allegedly motivating people to take part in the jihad and collecting charity for a banned organisation at a mosque, police sources said.” “A 9mm pistol, Rs35,925 […]
The spiritual leader of Stockton’s largest mosque faces deportation to his native Pakistan because he cheated on his taxes. Saeed Ur Rahman, imam of the Islamic Center of Stockton, was convicted by a federal jury in Sacramento last fall on two felony counts of tax evasion. His brother who also led the mosque was also […]
Al Qaeda funder in Chicago sentenced to 7 years in prison
A cab driver in Chicago who was convicted of attempting to send money to support Al Qaeda has been sentenced to just over 7 years in prison. This is an absurdly light sentence. Imagine it were 1943 and a Chicago cab driver was convicted of trying to send money to support Nazi Germany or Imperial […]
An International Conference on Islamic Funds and Investment opened this week in Karachi, Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Observer, among the large number of attendees were investors from the USA and Canada. The report indicated that some $1.3 trillion is invested in 650 Shariah-Compliant funds worldwide, including 230 in Saudi Arabia, 172 in Malaysia, 59 in […]
One of the chief concerns about Shariah-Compliant Finance has to do with zakat, the system of tithing in Islam that so often involves the funding of Islamic charities which in turn distribute money to violent Jihadist terrorist organizations, particularly HAMAS and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Proponents of Shariah Finance act as if this concern is completely unfounded and […]
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 […]
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