Documents: Murray v. Geitner et al.
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Shariah Compliant Finance
The double-edged sword
News of the financial meltdown of Dubai World, a quasi-sovereign global concern that owns 77% of the international port manager...
Frank Gaffney: Jihad with Money
Frank Gaffney speaks on the topic of Shariah Compliant Finance at a conference sponsored by the Endowment for Middle East...
Is ‘Islam’ at war with us?
Last week, John Brennan, the assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism approvingly recalled a key point in...
Obama, zakat and Islamic charities
For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious...
Shariah-Compliant Finance: Benign or belligerent?
As Shariah-compliant finance continues apace, professionals and policy specialists continue to ignore a fundamental danger: the lack of disclosure of...
Shariah-Compliant Hotels (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...
Shariah-Compliant Finance as a ‘safe haven’?
Promoters of Shariah-Compliant Finance routinely violate the trust of investors when they proclaim that investing according to shariah principles has...
Shariah bankers: West ready for ‘faith-based alternative’
Backers of Shariah-compliant finance see an opportunity for expansion amid the global economic downturn, and some Western banks are welcoming...
Baloney from the Bee
All too frequently, an article will appear in the news media extolling the virtues of “Islamic” finance as a way...
Farewell to Britain
London: The British are understandably mystified. Long accustomed to a "special relationship" with the United States, they are trying to...
HSBCs Shariah Man
On February 27th, Financial Times Advisor featured an article about financial giant HSBC's continued and growing embrace of Shariah-Compliant Finance....
Free Speech, Jihad and the Future of Western Civilization
On September 22, 2008, leading experts, writers and journalists gathered in London for a conference entitled, Free Speech, Jihad and...
The Mumbai terrorists, zakat and charities
Two of the chief concerns associated with Shariah-Compliant Finance are the obligatory tithing to “zakat” and obligatory donations of “tainted”...
The SEC’s next shoe
The Securities and Exchange Commission has had a very bad couple of months. As a result of its successive oversight...
Uncle Shariah
The insurance giant AIG has lately become the poster child for corporate risk-taking, mismanagement and greed. Its unimaginably large losses,...