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Is Shariah Possible (II): Origins of a Cosmopolitan Venture
2009-09-08 11:16:00 A moral philosophy characteristically presupposes a sociology. For every moral philosophy offers explicitly or implicitly at least a partial conceptual analysis of the relationship of an agent to his or her reasons, motives, intentions and actions, and in so doing generally presupposes some claim that these concepts are embodied or at least can be in ...
Is Sharia?h Possible? (I): Definition and Scope
2009-05-05 09:29:00 The Shari’a is all justice, kindness, common good and wisdom. Any rule that departs from justice to injustice ... or departs from common good (maslaha) to harm (mafsada) ... is not part of Sharia’h, even if it is arrived at by literal interpretation. [Ibn Qayyim] “Just what is Shari’ah“, asks Zakintosh on his blog as he ...
Minnesota: Shariah Compliant Mortgages Now Available
2009-03-02 04:23:00 Creeping Sharia alert. A handful of private banks and lending institutions offer Islamic mortgages in the U.S., but Minnesota Housing is the first state agency to offer such a product. The program is the brainchild of Hussein Samatar, director of the African Development Center in Minneapolis."The process is different, but the outcome will look the same," Samatar says. "We wanted to be as conventional as possible, while respecting the tenets of Islam."Samatar, who used to work for Wells Fargo, tried for years to launch Islamic financing. He says the fact that Minnesota Housing has agreed to participate is a nod to the Muslim community's growing economic power.Chicago-based Devon Bank is underwriting the loans for the New Markets program. Devon is one of the largest Islamic lenders in the country. Corporate Counsel David Loundy says he expects the demand for Islamic financing to grow as more Muslims make their home in the U.S. Loundy says Muslims tend to be good risks."If they worked...
Islam's Shariah cited in 7 of 10 worst nations worldwide
2009-02-05 19:27:00 Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily says,'Reports that at least 10 Christians were abducted and killed for their faith ? sometimes by beheading ? during 2008 has pushed Somalia into the Top 10 among nation's that aggressively persecute Christians, according to a new report from Open Doors USA.The organization today released its 2009 World Watch List, which cited North Korea ? for the seventh straight year ? as the nation that persecutes Christians more intensely than any other around the globe.But Somalia rose from 12th in 2008 to 5th this year because of the growing level of attacks there, according to the report which noted two of the worst three nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are nations governed by Islamic Shariah law, and seven of the Top 10 nations fall into that category.Paul Estabrooks, the organization's minister-at-large, told WND that those Islamic nations "certainly are impacted significantly by Shariah."According to reports from Compass Direct News, it was only about 12 week...
By: Christian Quoter
Fortis Launches New Indonesian Shariah-Compliant Fund
2008-04-16 10:26:00 PT Fortis Investments Wednesday said it has recently introduced a new fund which will invest in shariah-compliant money market securities, shares and bonds.The fund is not aimed exclusively at "shariah loyalists, but at any investor seeking new investment alternatives," said Eko Pratomo, president director of Fortis Investments' Indonesia unit.Pratomo expects the new product, called Fortis Equitra Amanah, to attract IDR200 billion in funds by the end of the year.The new fund will be Fortis's second shariah-compliant product.Indonesia's Islamic financial business is still in its infancy despite nearly 90% of its population being Muslim.Most of them chose to put their money into or borrow from conventional banks.The government and the central bank, however, are keen to develop the shariah industry.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Shariah comp-LIEnt investments- Exploiting the widespread ignorance
2008-04-08 16:37:00 Do you remember when you were a kid your parents brought you a coin box to save any extra pocket money which was left with you? Savings is a good thing and its one of the part of planning for building a future. But, is savings the most primary thing or there is something more to it? Kids are initially reluctant to drop their coins into that coin box or 'piggy' bank as it is popularly known, which no longer comes only in the 'pig' shape but also seen in the form of fruits, cartoon figures and objects to attract the kids' interest. Soon, the parents succeed in training the kids in the habit of saving money by giving them examples of how they could benefit from it and luring them to save with an expectation of a bigger reward in the future.When the kids grow up with such a habit of saving, they do not indulge in spending excessively. But, in Islam everything is done in moderation this applies also to savings. When the kids become adults, the savings concept has also grown up to be...
Islamic Shariah Law - The ultimate sanctuary for human race
2008-04-07 08:41:00 Excellent Article by Noah Feldman - Law Professor at Harvard University "To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed.... In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane legal principles available anywhere in the world." Here's the link ---> http://inarrators.com/content/v-iew/601/129/
Islamic Shariah Law - The ultimate sanctuary for human race
2008-04-07 08:41:00 Excellent Article by Noah Feldman - Law Professor at Harvard University "To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed.... In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane legal principles available anywhere in the world." Here's the link ---> http://inarrators.com/content/v-iew/601/129/
Why Shariah?
2008-03-17 04:51:00 Last month, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, gave a nuanced, scholarly lecture in London about whether the British legal system should allow non-Christian courts to decide certain matters of family law. Britain has no constitutional separation of church and state. The archbishop noted that ?the law of the Church of England is the law ...
By: 1913 Intel
Shariah Is for Everyone!
2008-02-14 05:25:00 The archbishop of Canterbury has proposed a partial introduction of Islamic Shariah law in Great Britain. This is yet another step on the part of the Western world to subjugate itself to a Muslim immigrant minority unwilling to integrate. By Henryk M. Broder more… Shariah in Great Britain?: A Bishop Pleads for Islamic Law From the Archive: ...
By: 1913 Intel
‘Shariah rule will further nurture sectarianism in NWFP’
2008-01-29 07:15:00 Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has described North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Government’s plan to promulgate regulation for law enforcement through Qazi courts in its Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA), as an attempt by the military to instigate sectarianism and war-lordship. The PATA includes Swat, Dir and Chitral districts of NWFP. “But to control territory in the name of Islam by nurturing sectarianism and creating religious differences through the Shariah,” said Hina Jilani, Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Punjab province. “This proposed judicial system is not related to the mainstream judicial system. It is clearly contradictory to the 1973 Constitution, particularly Article 227,” the Daily Times quoted Jilani , as saying. She said the people of PATA would be weakened politically as well as psychologically by these kinds of regulations. “It is time for the Pakistan Army to c...
By: B4U India
In Nigeria, the Quest for a Humane Shariah
2007-12-01 00:08:00 But these days, the fearsome police officers, known as the Hisbah, are little more than glorified crossing guards.
By: Get rich
The Problem with Muslims
2007-10-30 23:50:00 (Please take the article below to be in a mock angry tone, like Jack Black! It’s not real anger… ) Problems with the rational Muslim: There are a lot of problems with Muslims. The first thing is obviously that from the three Abrahamic adherents, they’re the most irrational. And yes that’s a general statement and ...
Muslim Brotherhood Plans To Replace Constitution with Shariah
2007-09-19 01:25:00 Confirming what we’ve know for a long time, Court Documents - Muslim Brotherhood?s Papers Detail Plan To Seize U.S., National Terror Alert Amid the mountain of evidence released in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, the most provocative has turned out to be a handful of previously classified evidence detailing Islamist extremists? ambitious plans for ...
By: Webloggin
BCA to Buy Bank for Shariah Unit
2007-06-21 10:37:00 PT Bank Central Asia, Indonesia's second-biggest financial services company, plans to acquire a bank in the next two years as the government urges the industry to consolidate in line with mergers in neighboring countries. The mid-sized target bank will be converted into an Islamic bank, said Djohan Emir Setijoso, 64, president director of PT Bank Central Asia in an interview in Jakarta. ``We are looking, we are in the market. You have to identify and then you have to do the due diligence,'' he said. ``That would take one to two years.'' Bank Indonesia, the nation's central bank, is coaxing the nation's 130 financial firms to combine to between 70 and 80 companies and boost capital, having spent 450 trillion rupiah ($50 billion) bailing out the industry after the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Mergers in neighboring Malaysia have cut its banks from 54 to 10, while Thailand has 12, from 16 a decade ago.
Presidential Run by Indonesian Cleric Would Be Referendum on Shariah Law
2007-06-13 03:40:00 On the day of his release, a smiling Bashir told reporters: "I thank Allah that I am free today. I call on all Muslims to unite behind one goal, which is the implementation of Shariah law."When, in May 1998, former President Suharto's 32-year rule came to an end, Indonesia, a secular nation with the world's largest Muslim population, started a democratization process that has been praised worldwide. However, democracy has also opened the door for a previously dormant wing of radical Islam that wants to turn the country into an Islamic state.The clash between the two could soon be played out in the voting booth if, as suggested late last month by Indonesian Mujahedin Council (MMI) spokesman Fauzan al-Anshori, radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir decides to run for president in the country's next election, slated for 2009. "Bashir is considering the possibility," al-Anshori told Italian news agency AdnKronos International May 30. "He said that he wants to see what the people s...
Shariah by stealth
2007-05-02 20:59:00 Author: Val MacQueen Immigrant Aydarus Yusuf, who has lived in Britain for 15 years says, in effect, that he does not feel bound by British law. ?Us Somalis, wherever we are in the world, we have our own law.? According to the BBC, the 29-year old youth worker wants to ensure that other members of his community remain subject to the law of their ancestors, too. To this end, he helps convene an unofficial Somali court, or ?gar?, in southeast London. This group tries both civil and criminal cases, without reference to the English police or England?s 1,000 year old legal infrastructure. This news simply confirmed what many in Britain already suspected. Muslim immigrants and their offspring, who constitute around 2.5% (according to Labour government figures) of the population, are running an underground parallel legal system operated along tribal lines by ?elders?. Episcopalian canon Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, himself a convert from Islam, whose own family immigrated from Guyana a...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Storm Tack Intimidation: Attempts at Imposing Shariah Law Again - in Minnea
2007-03-15 16:15:00 From The Gathering Storm Taking a leaf out of the Minneapolis Muslim cab drivers book, some Muslim cashiers at Target refuse to handle pork, setting off another debate over the place of religion in society. Are they trying to outdo Dearbornistan? Beryl Dsouza was late and in no mood for delays when she stopped at a Target store ...
Storm Track Intimidation: Creeping Shariah Law on the Road to Zanzibar
2007-02-11 21:30:01 From The Gathering Storm Blog. What seems to be many as odd behavior by Muslims is really a systematic approach by Islamists to institute Shariah law in, up to now, moderate Muslim countries. Where the Islamists don?t have enough numbers to force Shariah law upon a population like the recent insurgency in Somalia (that was ultimately ... |
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