Month: July 2010

The Great Big Sharia Finance Flop

Big banks go cold on Islamic products

Quick, somebody inform Australia’s Assistant Treasurer Senator Nick Sherry who was totally befuddled with it until a few weeks ago,  as we reported here: Suckers for Sharia Finance and here: Sharia Finance A Huge Flop in Britain:

““… misinformed  members of our community are  putting forward negative views about Islamic finance. These have been small in number but they have come in and they are of concern…” Senator Nick Sherry

Apologies are in order, senator!

Big banks go cold on Islamic products As Lloyds cancels its flagship Sharia mortgage, what happened to the big ambitions to woo the Muslim community?

By Julian Knight/The Independent

Where did it all go wrong? It was supposed to be the new frontier for the giant high-street banks, attracting Britain’s two-million-plus Muslims.

Many members of this prosperous minority had felt excluded from the British banking system and its zero-sum game of maximising profit and charging interest – a practice forbidden under Islamic law, or Sharia. As a result, charities have long estimated that the proportion of Muslims who were unbanked – who didn’t have a standard current account – was higher than in the overall population.

Led by Lloyds and HSBC, from around 2002 onwards, UK banks started actively to court British Muslims, offering a range of products, from current accounts to mortgages, which complied with Sharia. HSBC even has its own Sharia-compliant wealth-management company.

Other News:

Elena Kagan “Vile Filth”, is a Large Foot in the Door for Sharia Finance

Gates of Vienna

If Kagan tolerates promoting the injustice of Shariah law on the campus of Harvard, what kind of injustice will she tolerate in America during a lifetime on the Supreme Court? Read further…

Conservatives  continue to oppose traif Kagan: Obama nominates judges who  decide cases on the basis of emotions and personal politics rather than fidelity to the original meaning of the Constitution…

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WTF? Dutch Gov't Squanders Dutch Taxpayers Money To Finance Ground Zero Mosque?

Paying for our own destruction:

Dutch government helping pay for Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero — with Dutch taxpayer money

Atlas Shrugs

Geert Wilders Demands Explanation From House of Parliament Why Dutch Government is Funding Ground Zero Mega Mosque

One of my readers in the Netherlands filled me in on where some of the financing came from that the terror-tied Imam Rauf used to buy an historic landmark and demolish it to build an Islamic supremacist mega mosque at Ground Zero: the Christian Democrat party in Holland.

Insane.

I am sure that I can say that on behalf of the 3,75 million voters in the Netherlands for PVV (The centre-right political party from Geert Wilders) I offer you and your friends an apologies for our present christian (CDA) government.This because they granted a million Euro ( US $ 1.290.000 ) to the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) from imam Faisal Abdur Rauf who intends to build a mosque next to the grounds of the 9/11 massacre the killed over 3000 innocent people. Don’t ask me why.

Geert Wilders himself demanded today in our House of Parliament from our CDA Minister of Foreign affairs:

“Do you acknowledge that it is absurd -just at Ground Zero- to build a mosque, and that this is also an insult to (the next of kin of) the victims of 9-11? If not, why not?

So the Netherlands are aware of these building plans. But we don’t understand how the US-(local) government can be so ignorant about the symbolic value for muslims to build an other house of worship to Alla, right there in front of this specific location.

Many of us are also aware of the many moslim ‘enclaves’ that already exist in the USA and we admire your personal efforts to stopGround Zero to become one too.

Kind regards,

Peter Rissing

More from Atlas:

Why is Geert Wilders “anti-Islam,” and what is his message to the Muslims?

“Submission is a disgrace”

Freedom fighter Geert Wilders makes an important and illuminating statement at MuslimsDebate.com: “Muslims Debate asked Mr. Geert Wilders why he became anti-Islam and what is his message to the Muslims?”

H/T JW

Geert Wilders Comes To Berlin on October 2

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Leftist Tools & Union Thugs Rally Against Israeli Products in Brisbane Shopping Mall

Carl in J’lem

Well, the police show up around the 6:30 mark of this video, but they leave without doing anything. Meanwhile, this group of thugs terrorizes a Seacret cosmetic stand in Brisbane, Australia into (an early?) closing.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but by the looks of it there don’t seem to be any ‘genuine Fakestinians’ among them. They appear to be a bunch of simpletons who will be tree-hugging global warmists tomorrow and stoned hippie flower children the day after. This  is the kind of rent-a-crowd  that carries signs like “make peace not war” but are to degenerated  to practice either…….

Saudi Wahabites Start Up Jihad TV in Spain, Reaching Out to 700 Million Spanish Speakers

Saudi “Spiritual Guide” Behind 9/11 Starts Up Jihad TV Channel in Spain

ISLAM: SPAIN; WAHHABI PROPAGANDA arrives in Al Andaluz

The writer here thoughtlessly uses the term “conservative school of Wahabism”, making it sound as if being “conservative” somehow  equals  Mohammedan zealotry and genocidal Islamic doctrine. We find that offensive.

ANSAmed) – MADRID – The project centres on the creation of a television channel called “Cordoba” in Madrid, with headquarters in the industrial area of Tre Cantos. A channel meant to spread, in Spanish, in the Iberian peninsula and in Latin America the conservative Islamic school of Wahhabism. But, according to anti-terrorism experts quoted today by ABC newspaper, the television channel risks being the basis for ‘Jihad’ preaching in the Hispanic community which, with 700 million Spanish speakers, is tempting for Wahhabi proselytism.

Other news from the RoP:

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3 Hindu Girls raped and brutally tortured by Jihadis in West Bengal

The girls were molested, raped and brutally tortured in broad daylight. Nobody came in their rescue as the area is Muslim area. Written complaint has been lodged naming 20 Muslim miscreants. The police is “reluctant to investigate”.

.Haindava Keralam/via RoP

“Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, but ruthless to the unbelievers” — Qur’an 48:29

If only they had taken the ‘cats-meat’ mufti’s advice and covered up!

More News:

Someone decided to follow Muhammad’s orders yet again. “Pastor killed by gunman,” from the Barnabas Fund: Dagestan: Pastor and apostate from Islam shot and killed

Christian Brothers Rashid Emmanuel and Sajid Masih Emmanuel were shot to death outside the courthouse right after a trial hearing. Both were handcuffed on their way back to prison. Police were going to clear them of the accusations. For days, Muslim religious leaders had incited Muslim faithful against the two, calling for their death. (Asia News)

Pakistani couple face death by stoning threat after conviction for adultery

“Its a cultural thing, nothing to do with Islam…”

“We burned down the man’s house, as is our tradition,” he said. “When we get hold of them, we’ll kill them, there’s no doubt about that. It was a clear-cut case. This is our custom. We will just shoot them. Finished.”

Islamization Watch:

Syria bans burqas in universities

It seems that with the restrictions in Egypt and now in Syria Muslims are also bothered by the all covering gloomy garments! Perhaps Western governments could be encouraged by this ~ and either ban or restrict the clothing.   Read more »

Spain’s Socialist Government Betrays the People:

Parliament rejects burqa ban _ for now

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Parliament on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban women from wearing in public places Islamic veils that reveal only the eyes.  However, the Socialist government has said it favors including a ban on people wearing burqas in government buildings in an upcoming bill on religious issues to be debated after parliament’s summer vacation break.

Al Qaeda News

“Arab Zionists” Discovered

The zebiba keeps growing….

Al-Qaeda Second-in-Command Ayman Al-Zawahiri: The Only Hope for Palestine is to Depose the ‘Arab Zionists’ MEMRI

More Sharia Needed

Al-Qaeda Official for Pakistan Ustad Ahmad Farooq Justifies Jihad Against Pakistani Leaders, Says: ‘Assisting the Infidels Even Partly is Leaving Islam’; ‘We are Trying to … Establish a Pakistan where Shari’a is Implemented in Practice… Which is the Center and Axis of the Mujahideen’   (MEMRI)

More of the same:

Jordanian Cleric Ghaleb Al-Rabab’a: Allah Will Not Let the Prophet Slayers Dwell in Jerusalem for Long

Terrorism nothing to do with Islam, part 3764899

PA Minister Muhammad Ishtayeh Praises Mastermind of Munich Olympics Terror Attack, States: I Believe Palestinian History “Will Continue to Be Written in Red Ink”

Bin Laden Son Says U.S. May Agree to Let in Family

That’s the guy who’s   “Hearing Voices“, what could go wrong?

Not enough Islamic terrorists in the US

Give me your poor & huddled masses:

(Bloomberg) — A son of Osama bin Laden said about 20 members of his family stranded in Iran are seeking sanctuary in a third country and that the U.S. may agree to accept them.

Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader’s fourth son, said in an interview with Al Arabiya television that Iran is refusing to allow his relatives to go to Saudi Arabia. Shiite Muslim- dominated Iran is a regional rival of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, is hostile to Iran.

“The Americans offered to help them out of Iran and even hinted at the possibility of receiving them in the U.S.,” he said in the interview, which was aired late yesterday and posted on the Dubai-based channel’s website. Omar bin Laden said none of his brothers has been accused of terrorism by the U.S. or any other country.

The elder bin Laden’s relatives held under house arrest in Iran include five of his children and one of his wives, Al Arabiya said. The family had been living in Afghanistan and fled to Iran after the U.S. military began air strikes on the country following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

A daughter of bin Laden, Iman, 17, was allowed to leave Iran for Syria earlier this year after taking refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Her brother, Bakr, 16, also left Iran for the Syrian capital of Damascus in December.

Dog Days & the Freedom Sack

Tim Blair:

More dog trouble in Britain:

Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs …

Terrifying Terrorists:

Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs …

George Herridge, 73, a retired hospital maintenance manager, told the Daily Mail he was ‘stunned’ to be twice asked by bus drivers to leave their vehicles because of his guide dog Andy, a black Labrador.

Mr Herridge, who lives with wife Janet, 69, in Tilehurst, Reading, said that on the first occasion two years ago, he got off at the request of a Muslim driver because some Muslim children on board were ‘screaming’ because of the dog.

He found himself in a similar scenario in May last year, when a Muslim woman and her children became ‘hysterical’.

Well, they are terrifying

The Daily Telegraph‘s Sarrah Le Marquand – not exactly a right-wing culture warrior – joins Virginia Haussegger and Elizabeth Farrelly in opposing Islam’s freedom sack:

There is something profoundly disturbing about women having to cover their faces.

What is there to celebrate in a garment designed to strip its wearer of her identity? An item that suggests only by fully shielding herself can a woman feel free to venture outside without illiciting unwanted attention from men. A piece of clothing that seeks to reinforce the apparent subservience of one half of the population.

You can spin it however you want – and plenty have tried – but it remains a symbol of oppression, pure and simple.

Syria: “the freedom sack opposes the morals and values of the academy”

Who’s banning what?

Andrew Bolt

Not just racist Christians who ban burqas

Yet another government reveals its Islamophobia by banning the burqa:

The Syrian minister of higher education has prohibited the entrance of veiled female students into universities and colleges throughout the country, news agencies reported Sunday.

Daily Star

SYRIA has become the first Muslim country to ban the burka, claiming the face mask encourages Islamic extremism.   (Not really. In Tunisia the secret police also  rips  the “portable seclusion”  off  when women flaunt it in public)

Elder of Ziyon

Guess who bans the burqa?

Is Ibrahim Hooper saying anything negative about Syria?

Last January, an Egyptian court upheld a ban of the veil during university exams. And last year Al Azhar University’s religious head banned the veil at all Al Azhar schools altogether.

Treason

Churchill on Traitors:

“It is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in,  and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invader’s hearth.”

Desperate measures by a very desperate government:

UK to raid dormant bank accounts to “fund charity”

(Reuters) – Money from dormant British bank accounts will be used to help fund community work by charities and voluntary groups which would otherwise struggle to secure funding, Prime Minister David Cameron will say Monday. (Reuters)

Yvonne Ridley promotes “interfaith, tolerance & reason” on Iran’s propaganda channel Iran Press TV, whines about “Islamophobia & racism” with like-minded  traitors

Foreign Agents: What CAIR, Anna Chapman, and Rep. Mark Siljander Have in Common

Posted by Adam Savit Jul 18th 2010 at 3:19 am in Espionage, Featured Story, Foreign Policy, Islamic extremism, Justice/Legal, News, Strategy | Comments (21)

Late last month provocative pictures of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman graced newspapers and blogs worldwide.  The stories alongside the mandatory eye-candy featured scandalous accounts of “spying” and “espionage.” But despite the insinuations, the Russian “spies” in question were never charged with spying or espionage.  Fox News reported that……Read more…

Elena Kagan and Iftikhar Chaudhry: Another bad call by Kagan

It seemed, no doubt, the fashionable thing to do at the time, and as in all Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s close relationships with Islamic law and Shariah jurists, she may have just wanted to please her Saudi donors supporting Harvard’s Islamic Legal Studies Program when she was Harvard’s law school dean.

Top Ten Most Left-Biased American Journalists – #5: Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Unlike the other left-wingers that merely hate conservative Americans, Cynthia Tucker seems to hate all of us. That seems true at least if her latest outrageous comment on MSNBC can be taken for granted.  In recent remarks made on Chris “Leg Thrill” Matthews’ MSNBC show, Tucker said that, unlike the Cold War days, today’s American enemy is “us.” Naturally Matthews chipped in with a hearty “exactly.”