The Terror Finance Blog EU Court orders delisting of PMOI Posted: 23 Oct 2008 07:23 AM CDT The Court of First Instance of the European Communities today annulled the European Union Council of Ministers’ decision (2007/868) to maintain the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) on the EU terrorist list, ruling that […]
http://tinyurl.com/685uds http://tinyurl.com/yq3unn Jihad Economics and Islamic Banking July 28, 2008 By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen [From Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; Edited by Jeff rey Norwitz; U.S. Naval War College , June 2008, chapter 28.] The United States and the West cannot win the war against […]
by Steven Emerson IPT News July 15, 2008photo courtesy of Arab News In an ironic twist, an international interfaith conference set to start Wednesday in Madrid was organized by a man accused of working with a senior Al Qaeda financier and who unabashedly supports Palestinian suicide bombings. Abdullah al-Turki is organizing the conference on […]
The implications of sharia finance in the UK Written by Melanie Phillips 23/06/2008 The huge spread of sharia finance should cause us the greatest possible concern. It is seen as relatively untroublesome way of reaching out to Muslims while making some people a very great deal of money. So everyone is happy? […]
Shari’a Finance – The Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) Posted: 20 Jun 2008 12:06 PM CDT www.terrorfinanceblog.com By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen [From Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; Edited by Jeffrey Norwitz; U.S. Naval War College, June 2008, chapter 28.] The United States and the West cannot win […]
http://tinyurl.com/57ppdp In the post-colonial arena following the advent of World War II on the African continent, the cultural line of demarcation has become the Arabic Islamist North – littoral Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco – and the mostly Animist and partially Christian central and sub-Saharan south. However, despite the Arabic history of slave-trading and […]
Islamic finance industry trends to be studied Published: 29th April 2008 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/printnews.asp?Article=215912 MANAMA: Trends, opportunities and the future direction of the global Islamic finance industry will be highlighted at a strategic briefing being organised by the International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM).The exclusive session, for senior executives of Islamic financial institutions, will also feature IIFM’s Master […]
QUICK LINKS Center for Near Eastern Studies The Anderson School at UCLA MSA-UCLA UMMA Clinic RECENT HISTORY OF ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCEDuring the eighteenth, nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries the European countries colonized almost the entire world of Islam. They managed the economies and finances of these countries in their own […]
U.S. quietly rolling up Hezbollah financing in Latin America
posted by Christopher Holton Hezbollah has for decades been building up infrastructure and support in Latin America. This process has gone largely unchecked until recently. As Joseph Humire reports in The Hill, that appears to be changing now… On July 11, 2018, the government of Argentina took its first action against Hezbollah by freezing the […]
Al-Baraka Banking Group, the leading Islamic banking group based in Bahrain, announced the organization of the 32nd session of its annual symposium on Islamic economic system on Aug. 10-11 at the Jeddah Hilton. The symposium, to be held under the chairmanship of Saleh Kamel, chairman of Al-Baraka Banking Group, will discuss a number of emerging […]
Bahrain-based Shariah Bank Cuts Size of Sukuk Offering as Costs Rise
Bahrain’s Albaraka Banking Group reduced the size of a scheduled March sukuk (Islamic bond) offering to $250 million-$300 million from the planned $500 million, its Chief Executive Officer Adnan Ahmad Yousuf announced. The cost of borrowing through sukuk has risen since anti-government protests began in Egypt two weeks ago on concern political instability may spread […]
Shariah-Compliance may have a prohibition against interest, but that sure does not mean that Shariah-Compliant financial institutions won’t charge handsome fees for their services… Islamic banks such as Albaraka Bank (South Africa) and the Islamic banking windows of FNB, ABSA, Nedbank and Standard Bank have come under heavy criticism from Muslim customers from following the […]
As a new Shariah Bank was founded in Syria, one of the world’s foremost terrorist-sponsoring nations, with ties to HAMAS and Hezbollah, the Chairman of the banking group thanked Syrian President Bashar al Assad and his regime for their support of Islamic banking. In our view, that just about says it all… http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091220122508/Proclamation%20of%20Al%20Baraka%20Bank%20Syria%20and%20the%20Election%20of%20its%20First%20Board%20of%20Directors
Barbara Kay: We’re losing ground fast to the soft jihad* Posted: October 08, 2008, 10:12 AM by Kelly McParland Barbara Kay, The first great jihad petered out with Islam’s expulsion from Spain in 1492, the second in 1683 with the decisive (and to Islamists, still freshly humiliating) defeat of the Ottoman Empire in Vienna. We’re […]
Question I got married in february and my husband told me he was divorced and showed me the muslim divorce paper before our marriage,in may he confessed that the paper he showed me was a fake because he didnt include his wifes middle name and he did this intentionally so that i would […]
Question 1 My almost four year old son goes to madarssah for an hour each day, four times a week. he is only memorizing surahs from Juz Amma. My husband is present with at the madrassah too. He started three weeks ago and has learnt 8 surahs so far. He, however cries everyday that he […]
http://tinyurl.com/6eagln Women’s rights are not full rights under Islamic Law. This is from a chat room I am monitoring. Check the question, and the answer and this is part of the problem of Islam and contemporary life in the West. comments by Allyson Rowen Taylor Question I converted to Islam and married my […]
These are the poor people who can easily get inolved with Islam with promises of food, shelter, and paradise. http://soundroots.org/uploaded_images/bolivia.jpg ÈÓã Çááå ÇáÑÍãä ÇáÑÍíã As salamu alaikum wa rahmatulil lahee wa barakatu huu to all the true believers, Over two yrs. ago we made a general invitation to all the Muslims to […]
IFIS IN ASIAhttp://tinyurl.com/6flgb5 Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Al-Tawfeek Arab Bank Arab Banking Corporation Bahrain Islamic Bank Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad Bank Muamalat Indonesia Central Bank of Bahrain Central Bank of Malaysia Central Shariah Board for Islamic Banks of Bangladesh CIMB Islamic Dubai Islamic Bank Emirates Islamic Bank HSBC Amanah IDB […]
RBC plans to enter Islamic finance market A new generation of Islamic banks, which adhere to the sharia prohibition on interest, is setting its sights on the West. As the wealth of Gulf countries swells, Western financial players, – including some Canadian banks – are looking to tap these pools of capital SONIA […]
Question I would like to know if the following is permissble with regrads to drawing animate pictures; 1. Drawing it without any facial detail eg no eyes, nose, and mouth. 2. Only Drawing the outline. 3. Drawing only the body without the face. Answer In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful […]
Name of Questioner New Muslimah – United States Title Leaving One’s Wife Without Informing Her Question One’s Respected scholars, as-salamu `alaykum. I’m a new Muslimah living in theU S. After my conversion to Islam, I married a Muslim immigrant who appeared in the beginning as a kind, emotional, and affectionate person. […]
http://tinyurl.com/3vvkyc 2 July 2008 RABAT – After years of watching from the sidelines, North Africa has begun to embrace Islamic finance as banking develops and governments try to channel more Arab Gulf petrodollars into an investment-starved region. But growth could be far slower than in the Middle East given resistance […]
Zaher Barakat: Lebanon to London By Michael Kavanagh http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c2285a50-38ee-11dd-8aed-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=02e16f4a-46f9-11da-b8e5-00000e2511c8.html Published: June 16 2008 01:09 | Last updated: June 16 2008 01:09 Zaher Barakat grew up in war-torn Lebanon – an experience that made him determined to succeed in business. As peace returned, he witnessed the role played by the World Bank, Unicef and Lebanese […]
Forbes magazine’s latest listing of the world’s richest people counted plenty of individuals and families based in the Gulf. GSN lists the wealthiest Gulfis giving Forbes’ Arab rich list ranking, along with our own take on the players and their recent activity. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al-SaudPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al-Saud(1st – $21bn) Prince […]
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=16929 Financial Times Friday, June 06, 2008 ABC Barakah opens “LADIES BRANCH” […]
http://tinyurl.com/5aea7q Waistlines widen in Gulf states as economies grow By Ryan Harrison on Friday, May 09, 2008 The UAE’s economic boom has been rivalled only by the rapidly expanding waistlines of its residents, which have left in their wake an over-stretched healthcare sector hungry for investment. Enormous prosperity has bred a changing culture […]
Shariah, Economics and the Progress of Islamic Finance: The Role of Shariah Experts http://siddiqi.com/mns/Role_of_Shariah_Experts.htm Concept paper presented to stimulate discussion at the Pre-Forum Workshop on Select Ethical and Methodological Issues in Shari`a -Compliant Finance SEVENTH HARVARD FORUM ON ISLAMIC FINANCE Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Friday 21 April 2006 Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi [email protected] Discussing […]
UPDATE 1-Gulf banks, investors plan $3 bln Islamic bank Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:17am EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSL2685771920080326 By John Irish DUBAI, March 26 (Reuters) – Gulf banks and individual investors are planning to set up a $3 billion Islamic investment bank and an Islamic stock exchange in Bahrain by 2009, the chief executive of Albaraka Banking […]
Zain Saudi Arabia awards Motorola $335m contract (MENAFN Press) Motorola, Inc. announced that it has signed a $335 million turnkey contract to deploy and manage a 2G/3G mobile communications network for Zain in Saudi Arabia, the recent addition to the Zain group, a long standing Motorola customer… Full Story Telecom & Communication […]
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