I knew about Sharia Finance strategies through ACT! For America's regular newsletters. Today I learned that America's financial institutions are in a clearance sale. Of course the customers are those countries and despots we've been transferring our wealth to for the past 30 years or more. With the exception of FreddyMac and FannieMae and perhaps IndyMac, all of the giant financial organizations are publicly traded. With the current crises in the financial industry, they've been selling at bargain basement prices and the petrodollars are buying them. So what?
Imagine the world's financial institutions being governed by Sharia compliant financiers. Imagine those institutions refusing to finance any business or government that insults or opposes Islam in any way. Imagine them refusing to do business with any manufacturer which produces a product or service non-compliant with Sharia's restrictive ideology. More importantly, imagine them supporting a despot like Ahmadenijad or Habbas.
Dollars for Dinars
(IsraelNN.com) First it was Citibank. Now it's Barclay's and New York City's Chrysler Building skyscraper. Muslim Arabs are buying out collapsing Western banks and businesses and gaining growing international power, but some Arab investors are worried their investments may go down the drain with the American economy.
The current financial crisis in the United States has spread to other countries because of a massive debt that was not backed by enough real and liquid collateral. Banks and businesses gasping for financial breath are up for sale at basement prices, but no one is certain if the basement is the bottom.
Read the full article here.
http://shariahfinancewatch.wordpress.com/shariah-compliant-banks/
Shariah Compliant Banks
Alpha Natural ResourcesAsset Acceptance Capital Corporation
Aviva Plc
AXA
Barclays PLC
BNP Paribas Group
Citibank, N.A.
Credit Agricole, S.A.
Deutsche Bank AG
Dow Jones & Company Inc.
Equity Insurance Group Limited
Goldman Sachs Group
HBOS plc
HSBC Holdings plc
INVESCO Perpetual
Julius Baer Group
Maersk Logistics
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Morgan Stanley
NYSE Euronext
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Singapore Power
National Security and Financial Risks: Islamists are attempting to impose Shariah Compliant Finance (SCF) on Western institutions to use our own financial strengths against us. The most serious problem with SCF is that it legitimates and institutionalizes Shariah law (i.e., Islamic law), a theo-political- legal doctrine violently opposed to Western values. With $1 -$2 trillion petrodollars annually looking for an investment home, blind exuberance is driving financial institutions to adopt SCF, without even a minimal baseline for legal compliance. This willful blindness, and lack of both transparency and due diligence may cause SCF to be the next sub-prime crisis, but this time with deadly consequences.
Legal Risks: Western financial institutions which adopt SCF may have criminal and civil exposure to claims of aiding and abetting sedition and the material support of terrorism, securities fraud, consumer fraud, racketeering, and antitrust violations, as well as exposure to tort claims for sedition and terrorism, and for the violation of internationally recognized norms of the law of nations.
Terror Financing Mechanism: SCF as monitored by paid Shariah law advisors to U.S. banking institutions must “purify” certain return on investment (ROI) dollars that do not meet Shariah law standards. This money must be donated to Islamic charities - including some that promote Jihad and support suicide bombing. Investment disclosures state that these profits can be as high as 6% of profits of investments. With $800 billion already in SCF assets, the potential for billions of dollars to be siphoned off for terrorism is real. This would be a serious criminal violation of U.S. law.
Consider this example: Shariah Mutual Funds promote themselves as “ethical funds.” To be Shariah-compliant, they donate “tainted” revenues to Shariah-compliant “charities.” A post 9-11 U.S. investor in a Shariah-compliant “ethical investment” is not told that Shariah law also requires imposing Shariah as U.S. law, execution of gays and female apartheid. Is he a victim of consumer fraud? Is this same post 9-11 investor unwittingly funding terror? The government has shut down the three largest Shariah-compliant charities in the U.S. - the Holy Land Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation, and the Global Relief Foundation - after proving they funded terrorist organizations. The American taxpayer deserves answers to these questions. The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is meeting directly with members of Congress, U.S. regulatory agencies and Wall Street financial institutions in order to ensure the enforcement of existing U.S. laws on sedition, disclosure, material support of terrorism, and money-laundering. CSP is committed to revealing the civil liability and criminal exposure of Shariah law and Shariah-compliant finance.
WHAT IS SHARIAH LAW?
Understanding Shariah law is integral to understanding the dangers
of Shariah-compliant finance. Shariah law is Islamic law dating back to
the 7th century and is today the law of the land in Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Sudan and the law under which the Taliban operates. Recent polls reveal
that only 10-15% of Muslims worldwide want to live under this
all-encompassing system of Islamic jurisprudence that covers all
aspects of a Muslim’s life including religious, social, political, and
military obligations. However, with a current population of 1.5 billion
Muslims, this translates to a huge pool of Jihadist recruits and
supporters - a base of approximately 150 - 225 million Muslims. Shariah
law authorities, some of whom are now being paid handsomely by
Barclays, Dow Jones, Standard & Poors, HSBC, Citibank, Merrill
Lynch, Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse
and others have the power to dictate Shariah compliance as deemed by
“scholarly consensus” on matters of finance, family, penal law,
apostasy, and war. Examples of authoritarian Shariah law
include: requirement of women to obtain permission from husbands for
daily freedoms; beating of disobedient woman and girls; execution of
homosexuals; engagement of polygamy and forced child marriages; the
testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape; honor killings of
those, principally women, who have dishonored the family; death to
apostate Muslims who chose to leave Islam; inferior status of
non-Muslims, and capital punishment for those “slander Islam.”
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I'm always excited about acoustic releases. I generally prefer them since they strip away the flashiness and give you the raw talent of the band. Motion City Soundtrack's Acoustic EP is no different. The EP features five tracks from their 2007 album "Even If It Kills Me". For those who don't know Motion City Soundtrack is an increasingly popular indie rock/alternative rock/pop group formed in Minneapolis. The band has released three albums under Epitaph Records.
As with most acoustic releases, the songs all sound much more earnest and heartfelt. The versions of "Fell In Love Without You" and "It Had To Be You" should go down in love-song history for their incredible emotion-evoking sound. Unlike some acoustic albums, Motion City Soundtrack delivers complete studio quality throughout the entire EP. There are not only acoustic guitars, but chimes, drums, piano, bass-- the whole nine yards.
This wasn't just a sit-down in the basement; it was crafted with much precision. The vocals may not have been as smooth as in "Even If It Kills Me" but they are strong and hit all their marks (which is no small feat with all of Motion City Soundtrack's high octaves). Even if you've already purchased "Even If It Kills Me" I highly recommend you pick this EP up. The quality and effort put into the Acoustic EP is easy to recognize, and it's a whole new take on all of the songs.
Links:
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myspace.com/motioncitysoundtrack
epitaph.com
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Thank you to Maryann Phillips Soldiers' Angel at Landstuhl for
providing these accounts and being there for the wounded. You are truly
a wonderful angel. Let's get the truth of this out there folks..repost!
"I just hope these guys' wives and their children understand how courageous their husbands and dads were. They fought like warriors."
- SGT Jacob Walker
"It was some of the bravest stuff I've ever seen in my life, and I will never see it again because those guys... well, normal humans wouldn't do that. You're not supposed to do that — getting up and firing back when everything around you is popping and whizzing and trees, branches coming down and sandbags exploding and RPGs coming in over your head... It was a fistfight then, and those guys held ' em off."
- SPC Tyler Stafford
"When you ask for volunteers to run across an open field to a reinforced OP that almost everybody is injured at, and everybody volunteers, it feels good. There were a lot of guys that made me proud, putting themselves and their lives on the line so their buddies could have a chance."
- SSG Jesse Queck
SPC Gunnar Zwilling
All Sky Soldiers of Chosen Company, 2/503 Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.
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The
real story is NOT that this was a "base" - it was a small outpost of 45
men surrounded by concertina wire, with a few vehicles and fortified
fighting positions.
The real story is NOT that the outpost was
"overrun" - the truth is that 45 Heroes successfully fought off an
organized attack by hundreds of heavily-armed Taliban and al Queda.
The real story is NOT that the outpost was "abandoned" after the attack - it was a temporary patrol base.
I spent days talking to the wounded paratroopers who were at Wanat during their stay at Landstuhl hospital and can vouch for everything in the following articles:
Interviews with several wounded Soldiers of Chosen Company while at Landstuhl hospital describing the attack.
Multimedia version of above interviews.
Interview with an additional wounded Soldier of Chosen providing further information on the fight.
Interview with the commander of the 173rd ABCT.
An Alamo with a Different Ending:Overwhelmingly Outnumbered Coalition Forces Repel a Complex Attack in NE
Afghanistan
This writeup can be found at my blog here:
http://soldiersangelsgermany.blogspot.com/2008/07/heroes-of-wanat.html
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Mary Ann Phillips
Vice President, Warrior Medical Support Europe
www.soldiersangels.org
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Am I the only one who sees it??
btw - that's an animatronic mouse which pops out ever so often.
I don’t know if you are aware of this. Certain government entities are imposing a terror lexicon to be used for writing reports or public statements. For example words such as "Jihad," "jihadist," "Islamist," "mujahadeen," "caliphate," and more are officially prohibited by government entities. Specifically the government entities that are using the terror lexicon are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and the State Department.
This is mind blowing! The very entities that are involve radical Islamic enemies of America in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) are prohibited from using terms that describe our enemy but are used by our enemies.
Well thank God Almighty Representative Peter Hoekstra (A Republican I might add) is battling legislatively to reverse this Politically Correct evil within the U.S. government.
Read about Rep. Hoekstra’s battle to keep a dhimmi terror lexicon out of the U.S. government at Counterterrorism Blog.
JRH 7/23/08 (Hat tip Act for America)
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