Posted on 05/05/2004 9:33:10 AM PDT by all4one
Right down the road from my shop.
CCI owns a lot of office space around me.
A very wealth Bahrain Muslim just bought 75 prime acres near here and is going to build a huge resident elderly health care center and residence. He is also looking to build another similar place on the other side of town. We have a very large population of retirees around here.
So, this is not something unusual. I wonder if there is a real pattern here for some reason?
I think that your answer is right there. I should have my daughter and her fiance' go to Ann Arbor and try to apply. (They're both attorneys.) Sounds like a plan.
Name, Occupation, Employer
John Sickler - Mortgage Lender - University Bank
Contribution
John Kerry $250
Address
Saline, MI 48176
Link to FundRace 2004 Site to search for who gave what political contribution to whom....really interesting.
Do these people know who or what they're working for?
Click on closeup of John Sickler
At the bottom of the site, there's an information request form. :)
Do you really want critical health services provided under sharia law? Has it occurred to anyone that a healtcare structure is a perfect biowar vehicle?
If this one passes, you get exactly what you asked for. Which is probably not what you had in mind.
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Not only a biowar vehicle, but practice runs as well. If nothing else, our most vulnerable will be at the hands of sharia and considered infidels. I can't believe it, especially in light of all we know about 9-11 and their uses of our country's investment and educational institutions to their advantage and our disadvantage. They're selling us out to the highest bidder, it's all about the money, I guess.
Yes. And what do you do when your healthcare provider tells you that your parents (or your kids) will have to convert to Islam to have the premium level of healthcare?
And that's when they bother to tell you. How many people will go along just to get care and what about the elderly with problems that cause confusion? It's a nightmare. How can the sale just be so easy? When one thinks about how the Patriot Act has changed how we do so many things, why does this not fall under that scrutiny?
Gulf Arab investors set to establish giant Islamic bank Operations may start in early 2005
By Abbas Salman
Special to The Daily Star
Thursday, May 06, 2004
MANAMA: A number of Gulf investors are expected to establish a giant Islamic bank with a capital of $3 billion. The bank, which will be based in the Gulf region, will start operating in 2005, according to private bankers.
International auditing firm Ernest & Young, which made a feasibility study on the new bank, said that there is a big need for such a bank in the Middle East.
Islamic banks are becoming very popular in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and other Arab states. Adnan Youssef, the chief executive of the Bahrain Islamic Bank, has said some cash-rich investors from Gulf Arab states have already pledged to contribute around $800 million to the bank, which will have an authorized capital of $3 billion.
There are currently 26 Islamic banks and finance houses operating in Bahrain, the Gulf's financial and banking hub, with assets exceeding $260 billion and customer deposits of $200 billion.
"I expect the bank will start its activities in early 2005 and will be based in Bahrain because the kingdom is considered the best location for the bank," another banker said, adding that the study showed all indications as positive, including profitability of the offshore bank, which will be involved in financing big projects in the area.
"In terms of business, it will be a linkage between Islamic states and the United States and other European countries, because we do not have giant institutions which can deal with big projects, syndications and transactions," the banker said.
Small banks in Arab states, including one in Bahrain and another in Egypt, have already voiced their interest to merge with the new bank.
Islamic banks and financial institutions do not charge or receive interest - core of the Western banking system - as it is considered by many Muslims as usury. Money is made instead through approved trade and investment.
Saleh Kamel, the chairman of the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions, said Islamic banks will contribute to enhancing the economies of Islamic countries and the activities of the primary and secondary market.
He said intensive efforts were being made to establish a specialized center for issuing quality certificates for Islamic financial products.
Mideast bankers say Islamic banks are growing by around 15 percent annually, but they lack a unified and strict regulatory regime. Islamic banks are also expanding in Lebanon, where the government passed a law on Islamic banking two months ago.
Many US and European banks have also introduced Islamic banking instruments and some of these products are aimed at merchants and companies that want to avoid interest payments on loans.
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So they don't make money from interest, just other investments. Like this investment? or this investment? or maybe this investment? or maybe this investment? or maybe this investment? or maybe this investment? or maybe....
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