American jihad

Jihad Comes to Wall Street

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Shari’a financing involves the use of so-called “advisors” to certify that transactions comply with the tenets of shari’a law’s medieval behavioral code. Worryingly, nearly every one of these advisors works for organization directly or indirectly associated with the radical Wahhabist or Salafist schools of Islamic thought. — Center for Security Policy, Nov 28, 2007

Alex Alexiev writes in the National Review Online this morning:

If you’ve seen Geert Wilders’s film Fitna [Ed. — You can view it here], you may not have noticed a single headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam’s eventual world domination: Halal-fund: investments for Muslims…

Fitna

… But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within. And Wall Street, barely out of the woods from its disastrous run-in with sub-prime mortgages — and having lost one of its historic investment houses, Bear Stearns, in the process — is now chasing the very kind of “sharia finance” against which Wilders’s movie warns, a business line that may eventually wind up being even more calamitous than the subprime-mortgage fiasco.
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Far from being a legitimate investment vehicle, sharia finance facilitates religiously sanctioned support for terrorist organizations — as well as providing radical Islamists with highly paid sinecures as sharia-finance board advisors in the sanctum sanctorum of capitalism, all the while that they are pursuing a subversive campaign to destroy it.
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Consider the board chairman of the Dow Jones Islamic Index (IMANX), one Mufti Taqi Usmani. Mr. Usmani is widely reputed to be one of the world’s top experts on sharia finance. Whatever his stockpicking abilities may be, they are dwarfed by his jihadist credentials. A key executive of Pakistan’s prominent Deobandi jihadist factory, the madrassa Darul Karoom Karachi (currently headed by his brother, Rafi Usmani), Taqi Usmani has openly advocated jihad by Muslims in the West, and just last month again publicly endorsed suicide bombing and the Taliban.

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9/11, al Qaeda, mainstream media, waterboarding

U.S. official waterboarded, survived unharmed, but opinions still vary

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waterboarding demonstration

ABC News has reported that a government official was voluntarily waterboarded (he survived, apparently none the worse for wear). In 2004, Daniel Levin “was the top Department of Justice official in charge of deciding which interrogation techniques could be used in the War on Terror” and “decided to experience” waterboarding “first-hand.”

“It would be inappropriate for me to comment about that,” Daniel Levin said in response to ABC News’ questions about his experience while seen…

Daniel Levin

wearing a nice suit and tie,

Daniel Levin

walking unassisted,

Daniel Levin

entering an expensive foreign car,

Daniel Levin

and even driving it away on his own.

Despite surviving waterboarding unharmed, ABC News reported it, “…learned [from an undisclosed source] that Levin told the White House that even though he knew he would not die, he found his experience terrifying.”

It has been widely reported that waterboarding, as it was used by the CIA, is not life threatening and only invokes the fear of drowning in the one being waterboarded. The CIA waterboarded three top-tier terrorists in 2002 and 2003 and its use is said to have prevented additional death and destruction after 3,000 died on 9/11, assisted the CIA in determining how al Qaeda operates, and identified many additional terrorists. Members of Congress were briefed on waterboarding as far back at 2002.

Waterboarded al Qaeda terrorists

Unfortunately (in my humble opinion), the CIA stopped using waterboarding to interrogate terrorists in 2003 but at least one former senior U.S. Navy lawyer disagrees. That lawyer, who was never deployed during his career, is now the dean of law at a very liberal college. He regularly testifies before Congress alongside those representing the terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay and is often quoted by the mainstream media. He told ABC News that, “There’s no question it is torture. This is a technique by which an individual is strapped to a board, elevated by his feet and either dunked into water or water poured over his face over a towel or a blanket. It has been torture or considered torture since the Spanish Inquisition and ever since then.”

Now that he and I have put our spin on waterboarding, you can watch ABC News’ video report here (after their brief commercial).