Interest in Shariah-compliant dress codes around the world is growing at the same time Muslims around the world choose to spend money and manage finances in a Shariah-compliant way. Now, Shariah-compliant finance companies are beginning to invest in the Shariah “fashion” industry. This illustrates that Islam is a complete way of life and Shariah is designed […]
Anyone who tries to draw a distinction between Shariah-Compliant Finance and Shariah itself is either ignorant or dishonest. This was driven home recently in Kenya where Kenya Commercial Bank launched a new Shariah-compliant banking product at which female journalists report that they were compelled to observe Shariah customs, including dress codes. Not surprisingly, the bank denies […]
Money Jihad Blog: 10 women who’ve funded jihad
The good folks over on the Money Jihad blog have an interesting write up on equal opportunity material support for Jihadist terrorism… http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/10-women-whove-funded-jihad/
Reuters continues to shill for Shariah, this time by whitewashing the role of women in Shariah Finance
Reuters published a curious article today which, like much of what the former news agency pens about Shariah Finance, reads more like a marketing piece than a news article. This time Reuters is celebrating the role of women in Shariah Finance, speculating that they could play a much larger role than they are now… Recent […]
Harrods Goes Halal
Now Muslim women can buy expensive, high-fashion versions of black Islamic robes, which obscure the contours of a woman’s body, when they head to London to escape the Arabian Peninsula’s sweltering heat. Harrods started selling abayas by Beljafla’s DAS Collection in June, a month after Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund bought the landmark store. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-12/harrods-sees-profit-from-islamic-fashion-as-qatar-takes-control.html
Andrew McCarthy: Elena Kagan’s ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Shariah Policy
This is a VERY important article. It does an excellent job of detailing the origins of Shariah-Compliant Finance, how it fits in with the broader world of Shariah, and why Americans need to be concerned. We have excerpted part of the article below and provided a link. If you only read one article on Shariah […]
Islamic Finance and Women
The article linked below is so incredibly preposterous that we hardly know where to begin to comment on it. It begins by stating that “Islam honors women…enhancing their standing [in society] and granting them their full unabridged rights.” The authors must be talking about some version of Islam practiced on the planet Venus. Nevertheless, the […]
Financial jihadists have long held up Dubai as an example of the marriage of modernity and Shariah Islam. Of course, Dubai’s status as a world-class financial center suffered a severe setback when Dubai World defaulted on its Islamic bonds. Nevertheless, just last week, Dubai proudly dubbed its new tallest building, another modern marvel (though there’s […]
Since Shariah Law has such a great track record with women’s rights, it’s only natural that the Shariah Finance industry would target wealthy women in countries like Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia… Excerpts and LINK: A Cayman island based wealth management firm has established a fund that will target female investors in the Gulf. […]
Regular readers of SFW may recall our reports a few months ago about Hizb ut-Tahrir. Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international organization dedicated to the establishment of a worldwide Muslim Caliphate ruled by Shariah law. The organization held an event in Chicago calling for an end to capitalism and replacing free enterprise with an Islamic system […]
The adoption of a new family code aimed at gender equality in Mali has sparked protests and threats of violence. Tens of thousands of Malians have protested since the National Assembly adopted a controversial new family code in early August. The country now waits to see if President Amadou Toumani Toure will sign the code […]
Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein will face trial Sept. 7 for wearing trousers in violation of government decency statutes derived from Shariah law. If convicted, she faces 40 lashes and a fine. Read more at USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-08-26-muslim-sharia_N.htm
A Saudi Arabian father forced his 10-year-old daughter to return to her 80-year-old husband Sunday, after she was found hiding at the home of her aunt for 10 days, Arab News reported. Read more at Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543060,00.html?test=latestnews
As part of the standard practice of imposing Shariah on all people, not just Muslims, Dubai Bank has instructed that all female employees of the bank must wear Islamically-acceptable attire. A human resources employee of the bank is quoted as saying,”Our bank is Islamic and must follow Shariah in all respects, which will satisfy our […]
Andrew Bostom on Rifqa Bary and Shariah in America
Andrew Bostom is one of the most insightful commentators on the subject of Shariah and Jihad today and he has written another excellent piece for the American thinker which is well worth reading… http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/killing_rifqa.html
There are two news stories out of Malaysia this week which, at first glance, appear unrelated. But they’re not unrelated. They have a common thread: Shariah. The first item is about a 32-year old woman in Malaysia who was sentenced to caning by a Shariah court (a form of flogging) for drinking a beer: http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-world/model-whipping-sparks-debate-in-malaysia-20090726-dxac.html […]
Sudan has been in the news for quite some time now due to the horrible genocide which has been systematically committed there for decades. This has been a cause that many prominent Westerners, including entertainers and actors, have championed in recent years. Sudan has also been the target of an effective divestment campaign. Unfortunately, there […]
Creeping Shariah in Great Britain
As we reported here two days ago, there are as many as 85 Shariah courts operating in the United Kingdom today: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2009/06/29/britain-has-85-shariah-courts-the-astonishing-spread-of-the-islamic-justice-behind-closed-doors/ Now, the British think-tank Civitas has published a new report which indicates (not surprisingly) that Shariah courts are in fact not compatible with Western legal traditions, particularly in the area of human rights. […]
Shaukat Malik is a Muslim-American Certified Public Accountant from Potomac. A native of Pakistan, he arrived in the United States in 1980. He recently contributed his thoughts on shariah to the Baltimore Sun’s weblog. Here are some excerpts and a link… “Shariah laws are being used by terrorists to violate divine human rights.” “Shariah features…prominently […]
“According to Iran’s Islamic penal code, men convicted of adultery should be buried up to their waists and women up to their chests for stoning. Stones used should not be large enough to kill the person immediately.” “Iran has implemented sharia law since Iran’s 1979 revolution.” “We enforce our rules and regulations within the framework […]
What’s Next? Shariah-Compliant Hotels (complete with zakat payments to Islamic charities and EEOC violations)
The hospitality industry has generally been haram under Shariah-Compliant Finance, but that is changing. Now we’re seeing a movement to expand Shariah-Compliant hotels into the West. A close examination of the mechanisms and practices surrounding Shariah-Compliant hotels illustrates just exactly why the the barbaric Shariah code is almost completely incompatible with Western values and laws. […]
The application of shariah law in Western courts to accommodate Muslim immigrants is rearing its ugly head again. The field of family law is a very important fundamental legal area and if shariah is able to gain a firm foothold in that area, it would almost certainly have major implications down the road in commercial […]
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 […]
Open, tolerant, and generous Western nations are being taking advantage of, warns a former Muslim from the Middle East who now lives in America. Muslims in Arab countries as well as some born and bred in the West are aggressively pushing to impose Sharia law, or Islamic law, in countries such as Britain and the […]
Islamic banks are establishing banks all over Europe, and even the Vatican has joined the bandwagon by publicly voicing its approval. Proponents of Shariah banking advocate it as a “more ethical” option than those banks entrenched within the capitalist doctrine. However, Shariah principles forbid investment in certain companies deemed inappropriate in the Muslim world, and […]
A group of Saudi clerics urged the kingdom’s new information minister on Sunday to ban women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines… In a statement, the 35 hardline clergymen also called on Abdel Aziz Khoja, who was appointed by King Abdullah on Feb. 14, to prohibit the playing of music and music […]
Several Tunisian politicians and members of non-governmental organisations expressed unhappiness with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s visit to Tunisia this week. The protesters called the chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars “a symbol of intolerant salafist ideology.” Some Tunisians say that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi expressed violent opinions concerning Tunisia’s achievements in the field of human and […]
Note that CNN has whitewashed this story, referring only to “Saudi” law, not even the euphemistic “Islamic” law. The word “Shariah,” which accurately describes the law which resulted in this verdict and the whole legal system and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is never mentioned. Why has CNN chosen to […]
Olivier Guitta of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies has written a sobering piece for the Middle East Times about the spread of Shariah. He gives summaries of developments in Pakistan, Italy, France, Great Britain and Switzerland, with a particular emphasis on family law and the rights of women. Of particular interest was this […]
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