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Fiqh Council of North America issues fatwa to support Muslim candidates
Jihad Watch ^ | 21 Sep, 2026 | Christine Douglass-Williams

Posted on 09/21/2026 8:35:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Islamic supremacists are increasingly becoming emboldened in America. As a leading authority on Islamic jurisprudence, the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) is the most prominent and influential Islamic legal body in the U.S. and in Canada, and of the most prominent globally outside the Muslim-majority world. This is despite its alleged ties to jihad terror.

The Sharia is divine law in Islam, and it covers every aspect of a Muslim’s life. Muslims in the U.S. who support the Sharia generally place the utmost trust in the FCNA.

How anyone could deny the threat of Sharia expansion in America or in any Western society based on the history of Islam globally, supported by the latest FCNA fatwa, is baffling.

All that matters to adherents of Sharia is the expansion of Islam, not America or its values. They are fully committed to the Islamization of America. Leftists are their water carriers, as are the new woke right.

Photo: Sharia Law Billboard, Matt57, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

“Congressional El Sayed-aligned Islamic council with alleged terrorism financing ties issued fatwa to financially support Muslim candidates”, by Mia Cathell, Washington Examiner, September 20, 2026:

A preeminent Islamic council with organizational ties to a suspected financial collaborator of terrorism has authorized followers of Islam to flood Muslim and anti-Israel candidates with financial support using monetary obligations under Sharia law.

The Fiqh Council of North America earlier this election year issued a fatwa, a religious order in Islam, instructing Muslims across the United States that they are allowed to send portions of their annual Islamic dues — mandatory almsgiving known as “zakat” — to the campaigns of Muslim candidates and other 2026 contenders opposed to Israel.

Compulsory charitable collections, called zakat, are one of the pillars of Islam that function as an obligatory wealth tax on every eligible Muslim whose net worth is over a certain threshold. The standard zakat rate is 2.5% of a Muslim’s income to be paid yearly to a qualifying cause, typically the poor.

“The members of this committee believe that giving one’s zakat for influencing political causes is warranted,” FCNA ruled in its Jan. 30 fatwa.

At times, the council’s fatwa says, allocating zakat funds “even to the wealthy, to non-Muslims, or to those of questionable personal character [is justifiable], when that secures a general benefit for the Muslim community.”…

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, explained that “zakat can’t be given to just anyone.” For funds to count as zakat, the money has to be dispersed to an entity that has been recognized by Islamic leaders as zakat-eligible. Zakat, for instance, is payable to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim lobbying group.

“You’ll see notices here and there — ‘CAIR is zakat-eligible,’ etc., telling Muslims that they’re an acceptable recipient,” Spencer told the Washington Examiner. “If a Muslim decided, for example, to give his zakat donation to a pro-Israel entity, that would not count as zakat.”…

Spencer of Jihad Watch, who has testified before Congress on the threat of Sharia, said FCNA’s fatwa turning almsgiving into campaign contributions further illustrates that “there is no distinction between the religious and political in Islam.”

“The Palestinian jihad against Israel stems from religious teachings, particularly the idea that any land that once was ruled under Sharia belongs to Muslims forever,” Spencer told the Washington Examiner. “Muslims have an obligation to retake that land from whoever rules it now: ‘Drive them out from where they drove you out’ (Qur’an 2:191).”

Muslims can collectively work toward that goal by electing anti-Israel candidates, Spencer explained, so giving zakat in hopes of furthering the Palestinian cause is considered justified. “The religious and the political, in this as in other areas, are inseparable,” Spencer said.

As FCNA’s fatwa says, “Zakat is [one] of the most important obligations and acts of worship in Islam, and is central to one’s identity as a Muslim.”


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To: Da Coyote

3 men in a bar a Texan, an Indian and a Muslim, the Muslim asked the Indian why they live on reservations and live under government largesse. the Indian told him we tried to be free but they won. the Muslim asked the Texan about his attitude, He said “We aint ever played cowboys and Muslims yet”.


21 posted on 09/21/2026 1:58:39 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: chopperk

They also purposely placed large groups of Muslims and illegals in areas they would not have settled in order to maintain their legislative hold on seats. and gain more house seats after the next census apportionment.


22 posted on 09/21/2026 2:05:35 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: MtnClimber

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23 posted on 09/21/2026 2:48:05 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (lolLOLLL)
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To: MtnClimber

Do not waste time.

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24 posted on 09/21/2026 3:23:10 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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