U.S. Marine fires back over Shariah loans, suing Fed for promoting Islam with AIG bailout

WND ^ | June 08, 2010 | Chelsea Schilling

[opentalk]

A U.S. Marine who served in Iraq is suing the federal government for distributing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to the Shariah-supporting American International Group.

The lawsuit, Murray v. Geithner et al., was brought against the Fed and the Treasury by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Kevin Murray, a former Marine who served honorably in Iraq to defend the United States from Islamic terrorists.

...Coughlin, a lawyer and decorated Army Reserve officer, is a leading Pentagon expert on the link between Islamic law and jihad. He explained that by engaging in Shariah-compliant financing, AIG and the federal government – which owns 79.9 percent of AIG – are engaging in the religious practice of Islam.

...The motion states, "[T]he use of taxpayer money to approve, endorse and support Shariah-based Islamic religious activities and religious indoctrination, including the use of such funds to acquire government ownership and control that engages in such activities, violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."

At the time of the 2008 bailout, AIG was – and remains today – a world leader in Shariah-compliant insurance products.

As WND reported, AIG, which is now a government-owned company, owns a Shariah-compliant insurance company, offering accident, health, motor, personal contents, property and casualty insurance coverage. Shariah-compliant financing subjects certain financial activities, including investments, to the dictates of Islamic law and the Islamic religion.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

One does wonder just how the federal government will explain away the fact that those Sharia loans may have been loaned out as investments to folks who — oh — say like to invest in guns and ammo used to shoot at our own troops — maybe even used to kill a few. That’s gonna’ be a tough one, IMHO. How miserable it must be to know you son or daughter, husband or wife, father or mother, brother or sister, etc. was killed by bullets paid for by our own government. Oh, snap! I just hate when that happens.

[RatRipper]

Very interesting and good point! Tack these hypocrites to the wall.

[Lera]

God Bless our Marines !

[opentalk]

Agree! and the Thomas More Law Center for challenging this.

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ANN ARBOR, MI – In a motion for summary judgment filed this week, Federal District Court Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff was asked to enter a judgment against U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the Federal Reserve Board over the federal government’s bailout of AIG. The basis for the motion is that over a billion dollars of the bailout went to fund Islamic religious activities in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

[Dubya]

GO MARINE GO