Monday, April 28, 2008

Shari'ah Law And Church's Chicken

The story below relates what happened to the Beasleys (Baltimore, Maryland) and illustrates just one aspect of how shari'ah-compliant finance can directly affect us here in the United States.

From this source:
A Baltimore couple has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Islamic investment bank that owns the Church's Chicken fast-food chain, alleging their franchise failed because the bank's strict adherence to the religious code of Shari'ah prohibited the couple from selling pork.
Read the entire article HERE.

(Hat-tip to Shariah Finance Watch, interviewed during the last hour of the April 25, 2008 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show. CLICK HERE to access the podcast and to learn more about shari'ah finance)

Weekly Radio Show: April 25 - Bob McCarty, Elisabeth, Allyson Taylor

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

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Callers welcome!

Friday, April 25 (90 minutes): Our guests this week are Bob McCarty, Elisabeth of Austria, and Allyson Taylor.

At the top of the first hour, Bob McCarty of the blog Bob McCarty Writes will discuss with us humor, politics, culture, and capitalism. At the bottom of the hour Elisabeth of Austria will bring us up to date on the ongoing Islamification of Europe. At the top of the second hour, Allyson Taylor of Shariah Finance Watch will instruct us on the basics of the threats which shari'a finance pose to Western countries.

If you are unable to listen live to the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
May 2: Bill Warner
May 9: Mohammed Abdul
May 16: Chaim

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Two Kinds Of Dhimmis

Recently, Bill Warner of The Center for the Study of Political Islam and PoliticalIslam.com made the following statement in this interview at Front Page Magazine:
...[W]e have two types of dhimmi—the subjugated dhimmi who is under the political power of Islam and the apologist dhimmi who seeks Islamic favor....[T]he word dhimmi has two separate meanings—a subjugated dhimmi is persecuted and the apologist dhimmi helps the persecutor. The context determines which dhimmi we are talking about. One dhimmi is to be pitied and helped; the other dhimmi needs to be educated. But the apologist dhimmi is the key to defeating Islam.
This April 22, 2008 posting by Robert Spencer indicates that one of our most important leaders, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, falls into that second classification of dhimmi:
A reliable source has informed me that Condoleeza Rice has approved a new lexicon for State Department usage, absolutely forbidding the use of the terms "jihad" and "jihadist" by any State Department official.
Via this posting today at Jihad Watch, the new lexicon at the State Department and other federal agencies has been confirmed. Excerpt from this item at Associated Press:
Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.

[...]

At least at the top level, [the memo] appears to have made an impact. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who once frequently referred to "jihad" in her public remarks, does not appear to have used the word, except when talking about the name of a specific terrorist group, since last September.

The memo mirrors advice distributed to British and European Union diplomats last year to better explain the war on terrorism to Muslim communities there.
Why would Ms. Rice take such a position? The AP item gives some "reasons," but this comment at Jihad Watch also provides a possible clue:
About a year ago a story briefly surfaced about Rice's executive assistant, an attractive young Pakistani woman, I believe it was, who was very influential in shaping Rice's views....

Posted by: Eastview at April 24, 2008 6:43 AM
The above commenter Eastview did not have further information, i.e., the executive assistant's name. But if Eastview is correct, the highest-ranking member of our State Department could well have a subverter at her side.

What we have at the highest level of our government is a failure to name the enemy in this so-called "War On Terror." How are we going to win if we can't even identify and name the enemy?

Monday, April 21, 2008

Weekly Radio Show: April 18 - Pamela Geller



Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Friday, April 18: This week on the nearly famous Gathering Storm Radio Show, our guest for the full hour is Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs. Citizen journalist and citizen soldier, she will share with us the latest news from her blog and the latest news about those Islamists whose goal is to rob us of our freedoms.

If you are unable to listen live to the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
April 25: Bob McCarty, Elisabeth of Austria, and Allyson Taylor
May 2: Bill Warner
May 9: Mohammed Abdul
May 16: Chaim