summary: anyone who believes Sharia-Compliant Finance is a good thing is both uneducated and delusional - invented in the last century by the Muslim Brotherhood, this is a device for securing donations/contributions to Islamic charities which sponsor terrorist groups as well as capturing interest (albeit by other names) - most of the so-called Sharia advisers are clerics, not well-known for being educated in such subjects - come to think of it, what role have Arab and/or Persian ’scholars’ ever played in international finance (other than having petro-dollars to invest)?

FrontPageMagazine.com

June 29, 2009

A Caliphate of Toxic Assets 

By: Alyssa A. Lappen

When a pro-terrorist organization announces its intention to launch a financial jihad against the West, it is well worth learning their methods. More significant than the promotion of a religious pseudo-financial scheme is the possibility their largely unregulated practices could release a new wave of toxic assets into the wider economy and trigger a series of small-scale Enrons.

The Muslim organization Hizb Ut Tahrir capitalizes on Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna’s 20th century derivative, encouraging followers to build a parallel financial structure. Al-Banna envisioned the resultant Shari’a-compliant finance as a “back door” into Western financial markets and institutions through which to supplant liberty and prosperity with Islam. Muslim clerics including MB spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi promote Shari’a finance as generally safer than Western investments, a diversification method to steady personal assets — and a stable economic system that should replace capitalism. Call it “financial replacement theology,” if you wish. (more…)

summary: the inherent fanaticism and virulence of Islam, accompanied by viewing women as lesser beings, makes honor killings acceptable in Muslim society - as it now stands, few Western nations levy high penalties for such killings, mistakenly judging them to be domestic killing incidents rather than ritual murder 

Pajamas Media
Chesler Chronicles

June 26, 2009

A Frenzy of Honor Killings: Neda, Soraya, Bursa—and Me

Posted By Phyllis Chesler

The world has just watched the cold-blooded murder of [1] Neda in Teheran. The last sentence she uttered was: “Death to the Dictator.” Many of us are now about to see the haunting film about the real-life stoning of another Iranian woman, known as [2] Soraya M. These two tragedies took place in a Muslim country.

The blood of real (not just reel) Muslim women, murdered either by the state or by their families, continues to cry out—not only in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa but also in the West.

Two days ago, on June 24, 2009, in Germany, a Turkish father, Mehmet O, a kebab shop owner, repeatedly knifed his fifteen-year-old daughter, [3] Bursa, while she was sleeping. Despite the fact that Bursa, her mother, and her sister all wore hijab, Mehmet O. still felt Bursa was too “westernized,” and that she did not want her “strict Muslim father to control her life.” Bursa’s friends described her as a “fun-loving girl, (who) loved hip hop music….But that is no reason to kill someone.” (more…)

summary: Italy (and other European nations) face several problems: high birth rates among immigrant Muslims, low birth rates among native Italians, and increasing secularization among native Italians, all of which contribute to Islam’s growth - it is now expected that Muslims will outnumber native populations in virtually all European countries by the end of the century

Western Catholic Reporter (Canada)

June 25, 2009

St. Paul film created to counteract Islam’s impact on Italy

CHRIS MILLER, WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new film about the life of St. Paul is aimed at reaching Italian youth and stopping the spread of Islam in Italy.

The Bible-based documentary drama, Damascus, is about the apostle’s conversion. The release of the film coincides with the end of the Year of St. Paul.

The film, available in eight languages, is a project of Youth Arise International. It guides viewers through the book of Acts of the Apostles, showing first-century Syria and the life of Saul of Tarsus through to his conversion into the Apostle of the Gentiles. (more…)

summary: making comparisons between different people in different times may have no validity at all, especially when the motives of the ’stranger’ are not hostile or violent - in the case of Britain’s Muslims, far too many are anti-British, anti-Christianity, and anti-Western- the demand for shariah will put Britain and its citizens to a difficult test, not a positive circumstance in any way, shape, or form

Spectator.co.UK

June 26, 2009

The Muslim Menace to Our British Nationality. For Real!

Alex Massie

Here’s a disturbing report from one of the great institutions of the land:
They cannot be assimilated and absorbed into the British race. They remain a people by themselves, segregated by reason of their race, their customs, their traditions and above all by their loyalty to their religion, and are gradually and inevitable dividing Britain, racially, socially and ecclesiastically…

Already there is a bitter feeling among the British working classes against the Muslim intruders. As the latter increases, and the British people realise the seriousness of the menace to their racial supremacy in their native land, this bitterness will develop into a race antagonism which will have disastrous consequences for Britain. (more…)

summary: indeed, there my be sound reasons for an alliance between the major Arab TV network and the Muslim Brotherhood, both seeking to advance the Islamist agenda

THE JERUSALEM POST

June 25, 2009

Is Al Jazeera part of the Muslim Brothers’ program?

ZVI MAZEL

Could Qatar and Al Jazeera’s satellite channel located there be secretly manipulated by the Muslim Brotherhood? This is a question frequently asked by Arab media trying to puzzle out the high profile adopted by the ruler of the tiny desert country and the nationalistic and radical Islamic content of the channel he owns.

The Brotherhood exerted a profound influence on the conservative Beduin society of Qatar, which numbered less than 100,000 people in the 1950s. In a paper he wrote in 2007, Abdallah Alnefissi, a well-known Kuwaiti philosopher, explains that the then ruler of Qatar, Ali Ben Abdullah Al-Thani, was so impressed by their piety and morality that he gave them his trust and let them carry out a wide range of religious and cultural activities. (more…)

summary: Islam, by virtue of its roots in the 7th Century and due to its supposed immutability, can contribute little or nothing to modern life and thought - an anachronistic, political ideology, it inherently concludes that all else is invalid - by way of illustration, Islam has contributed very little to civilization throughout its entire history, many supposed contributions having come from elsewhere

Institution for the Secularization of Islamic Society

June 26, 2009

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy and Human Rights? Part II

Her whole book shows that  “distinctive Islamic criteria have been used to cut back on the freedoms guaranteed in international law” [2]; she herself shows that, at certain stage of Islamic history,, one Islamic doctrine prevailed which hindered the development of human rights. [Quotes 2 and 4, above]

Second, to argue in the above way is as illogical as arguing that because human rights were violated in pre - 1989 Soviet Russia, where Communism was the State philosophy, and are equally violated in today’s, 1994, Ukraine, where communism is no longer the State philosophy then the Human rights violations in the former Soviet Union had nothing to do with the philosophy of Soviet Communism. (more…)

summary: it could not be more clear that Islam rejects both democracy and human rights based on shariah and its holy books

Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society

June, 2009

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy and Human Rights? Part I

” Islam has never favoured democratic tendencies…” - Hurgronje [277]

” The Democratic system that is predominant in the world is not a suitable system for the peoples of our region… The system of free elections is not suitable to our country” - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia

At least King Fahd has had the honesty to admit the incompatibility of Islam and Democracy. Meanwhile Western Islamic apologists and modernising Muslims continue to look for democratic principles in Islam and Islamic history. (more…)

summary: one of the greatest mistakes made in modern Israel was Moshe Dayan’s turnover of the Temple Mount to the Arabs - as for Muslim feelings, well, political correctness and multiculturalism only go so far before encountering Muslim hostility, even violence, yet one sees little or none from Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or others

June 23, 2009

From Mecca To Jerusalem: Muslims And Their Feelings

by Jew With A View

Next time someone tries to hoodwink you into believing that Islam ‘respects all faiths’, ask them about Mecca and Medina. Specifically, ask them why the two holiest Muslim cities are off limits to all non Muslims.  Yep, that’s right. Mecca and Medina are no go areas unless you’re a Quran-brandishing member of the ‘religion of peace’. And there are no exceptions, no apologies and certainly no concern over whether this might be a tad hypocritical.

In fact, just to make it clear to any naughty infidels who may try and sneak into Mecca, the Saudi authorities have put up …helpful signs: Muslims only, Obligatory for non Muslims, Muslims Only and Non-Muslims. (more…)

summary: Muslim theocracy is, to say the least, out of date - recall that Islam’s imams and mullahs are educated only in matters Islamic, without an understanding of science, technology, liberal arts, finance, and so on - such religious teachers have no place governing even a marginally modern society - some say that the Iranians got what they wished for but today’s Iranian population is much younger than those who ushered in the 1979 Revolution and unhappy with the viewpoint of the religious authorities - time will tell if the regime can stay in power

THE JERUSALEM POST

June 24, 2009

The global Muslim theocracy movement is worried

Oliver Javanpour

The past two weeks have been an eye-opener for a lot of people, including Arab and Muslim communities around the world. While most Middle East analysts and those familiar with Iranian politics knew that the Iranian theocracy did not enjoy the support of the country’s 70 million people, this was news to many in the West. In fact, Iranians are more westernized, in their values and lifestyle, than we might think from viewing most news stories about Iran. The majority of Iranians have far different values from those ruling them at gunpoint. (more…)

summary: Islam needs no help in stigmatizing Islam - the burqa isan anathema to modern life, a throwback to older times and older societies, totally devoid of women’s human rights

Right Side News

June 25, 2009
 
Burqa is Not a Religious Sign - Violation of Women’s “Dignity and Freedom”
 
Written by JihadWatch.org   
 
France: Dozens of MPs support banning burqa, niqab
 
“If it were determined that wearing the burka is a submissive act, and that it is contrary to republican principles, naturally parliament would have to draw the necessary conclusions.”
 
“French MPs in call to unveil Islamic dress code,” by Chris Bremner for The Times ( http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25667700-2703,00.html ), June 21:France could bar Muslim women from wearing full veils in public, a government minister said at the weekend as parliament took action over concern about an increase in women who are wearing the niqab and burka in big cities.
 
The latest controversy over dress habits among France’s six million Muslims follows public differences this month between presidents Obama and Sarkozy over the merits of legislating on religious clothing.
 
A group of 58 MPs from Left and Right called on Wednesday for parliament to react to the phenomenon of women who are adopting what they called oppressive head-to-toe Islamic dress that “breaches individual freedoms”.
 
Industry minister and government spokesman Luc Chatel supported the MPs. “If it were determined that wearing the burka is a submissive act, and that it is contrary to republican principles, naturally parliament would have to draw the necessary conclusions,” he said. Asked whether that would mean legislation, Mr Chatel replied: “Why not?”
 
The new debate over Muslim dress is reviving passions that surrounded the 2004 law banning religious headcover in French state schools. Andre Gerin, a Communist MP, led the motion for an inquiry, calling the burka and niqab “a moving prison” for women.
 
Women’s groups, including some Muslim-led ones, back new measures against the practices of a growing but still small minority of radical Muslims.
 
Housing Minister Fadela Amara, a rights campaigner of Algerian background, said that she was alarmed by the number of women “who are being put in this kind of tomb”. She added: “We must do everything to stop burkas from spreading.”
 
Muslim leaders have mixed views about new legislation. Imam of the Paris Mosque Dalil Boubakeur supported an inquiry, saying that face covering for women was a fundamentalist practice originating in Afghanistan that was not prescribed by Islam. The national Muslim Council, which is less tied to the establishment, accused lawmakers of wasting time on a fringe phenomenon.
 
If it’s a “fringe,” fundamentalist practice, it stands to reason they should have no qualms about encouraging women to integrate into society and lose the face veil.
 
“To raise the subject like this … is a way of stigmatising Islam,” council leader Mohammed Moussaoui said. There are no precise figures but experts estimate that several thousand women, mainly born in France, have taken to full costumes with face covering. In 2004, when he was interior minister, Mr Sarkozy was not enthusiastic about the school headscarf ban and he remains wary of stigmatising Muslims.
 
UPDATE:  Sarkozy: Burqa not welcome in France
 
Anti-dhimmitude, “Sarkozy Says Burqa Violates Dignity, ‘Not Welcome’,” by Helene Fouquet for Bloomberg ( http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026696.php ),
 
 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the country’s National Assembly should debate a ban on the burqa, the Muslim garment that conceals a woman’s face and body, saying it was “not welcome” in France
 
“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of servitude,” Sarkozy said today in a speech to both houses of parliament at the Versailles Palace on the outskirts of Paris. Calling it a violation of women’s “dignity and freedom,” Sarkozy said the burqa “will not be welcome on French soil.”
 
A group of French lawmakers have called for a total burqa ban. Sarkozy asked them to “open a debate” on the matter. Only a small minority of women wear burqas and the Opposition Socialist Party would favor a ban “of the burqa or the nikab,” Benoit Hamon, its spokesman, told Le Monde newspaper today.
 
The clothing rule would come five years after France outlawed head scarves and other “ostentatious” religious symbols, including large Christian crosses and Jewish skullcaps, in state offices and schools. The 2004 law prompted protests in France and criticism from some Muslim groups, including the second-in-command of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
 
Sarkozy’s speech today marked the first time a French president has addressed lawmakers since 1875 after a law preventing such direct communication was overturned last year.
 
Budget Minister Eric Woerth said yesterday the Burqa “should not exist in France.” Sarkozy characterized it today as a “fence” in front of women’s faces….
 
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200906255248/global-terrorism/burqa-is-not-a-religious-sign-violation-of-womens-qdignity-and-freedomq.html
  
Posted on 6/30/2009 at 3:51 PM PDT