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Slippery Slopes from Sharia Profits to Sharia Law in U.K. Push to Become Global Center of Islamic Finance
November 19, 2014
The push by British financiers and politicians to make London the world's global capital of the $1.7 billion Islamic finance market reveals the slippery slope from sharia-compliant finance to expanding influence for sharia law, as experts note that the U.K. as "a massively enabling environment for Islamic finance" has already begun to impact the U.K.’s legal system, with judges resolving disputes between contracting parties on sharia instruments by making decisions "in line with Sharia, so long as the relevant clauses do not clash with U.K. legislation."
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U.S.-Based Islamist NGO on UAE Terrorist List
November 19, 2014
The Council on American Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), a Washington-based nongovernmental organization (“NGO”) whose website says that "CAIR's vision is to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding" when it comes to Islam, has been designated a terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates' (“UAE”) newly released government list of terrorist organizations identified for purposes of countering terrorism and violent extremism.
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Turkish Prime Minister Rewriting American History for Islamist Audiences
November 19, 2014
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded the pretensions of global Islamists to shaping world historical events, telling a recent summit of Latin American Muslim leaders that Muslim explorers discovered the Americas well before Columbus's arrival in the New World.
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Vicious Cycle of Youth Radicalization and State Crackdown on Islamists Raises Threats in Egypt
November 14, 2014
Reports of growing support for The Islamic State ("IS") violent jihad within Egypt's Muslim youth population, especially the burgeoning prison population driven by the al-Sisi government's crackdown on militant Islamists, suggests a dangerous cycle of violence and blowback in Egypt.
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Militant Islamists Thriving in Austria
November 14, 2014
Western intelligence sources note that Austria has a serious problem with radical Islamists who are radicalizing the county's Muslim youth, exporting jihadis fighters to the Mideast, and cooperating with Islamist recruiting and money-laundering networks in Central and Southeast Europe.
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