AUGUST 2006 : (MALAYSIA : THE SHARIA INDEX PROJECT'S INITIAL MEETING TAKES PLACE IN KUALA LUMPUR---- see PAKISTAN'S MAHMOOD AHMAD GHAZI, MALAYSIA'S MOHAMMED HASHIM KAMALI, INDIA'S TAHIR MAHMOOD , MALAYSIA'S DATO' ABDUL HAMID MOHAMED {See ELENA KAGAN NOV 11 2008 U S SUPREME COURT}) August 2006 – The Planning Meeting – Meeting #1 We know from the first hidden website that the Shariah Index Project (SIP) had its initial meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August 2006. Attendees explored the idea of creating an “index” to measure the degree of Shariah governance for ALL nations, and deliverables from the meeting were (1) a “vision” statement and (2) a roadmap for the project. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf convened and chaired this meeting, which included “four scholars from India, Malaysia, and Pakistan.” From the second hidden website, we know that these first four participants Rauf recruited were international leaders affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood - and on key advisory boards in Shariah Compliant Finance:* Professor Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, Pakistan, (Chairman of the Shariah Board for the State Bank of Pakistan and former president of International Islamic University);*Professor Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Malaysia (Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization and Former Interim Chairman, Constitutional Review Committee, Afghanistan);
* Professor Dr. Tahir Mahmood, India (Founder/Chairman, Amity University Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, New Delhi, and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Delhi University);
* Dato’ Abdul Hamid Mohamad, Malaysia (Judge, Federal Court of Malaysia … Malaysian Supreme Court). [Such a small world here at Big Peace - this is the same judge honored by Elena Kagan in the Al-Sanhuri lecture series at Harvard on November 11, 2008, as we reported here a couple weeks ago.]
----- "Ground Zero Mosque’s Hidden Websites: Follow the Shariah," Posted by Christine Brim Aug 17th 2010 at 10:45 am in Featured Story, Islamic extremism | Comments (46)
I’ll add this to the Ground Zero Mosque thread in reply to the Sharia Index Project.