How does Shariah Finance threaten Americans?
• Shariah finance is a threat to Western values, human rights and US national security. • Shariah finance has a political objective: to legitimize Shariah Islamic Law in the West. • Shariah-compliant finance provides financial support to extremism and terrorism. • Shariah-compliant financial institutions employ Shariah scholars, many of whom have been shown to be extremists, even to the point of advocating suicide bombing and jihad against America. • Shariah Scholars are directing profits of Shariah investments to Islamic charities. Under Shariah, “charity” or “zakat” includes the funding of Jihad, 27 Islamic charities have been designated as funding terrorism by the US Treasury Department. • Wall Street is branding and endorsing Shariah Islamic law as legitimate and western by promoting Islamic financial investments. Wall Street is welcoming Shariah Islamic Finance into America through our banking system. It’s easy for American’s to say: If Citicorp, Harvard Law and Business School ,
