November 4, 2008 -- FReepers help Senator John "Dorando" McCain
across the finish line to win the Presidential race.
Posted on 10/08/2008 8:15:25 AM PDT by TSchmereL
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Something that’s been here at FR and been ignored... can you say Shariah banking, donor to Obama and Biden, poof:
Where is Salman Ibrahim [+ OBAMA CHICAGO CONNECTION]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085545/posts
The disappearance of the CEO and president of a Shariah-compliant investment firm has left many in West Ridge’s Indo-Pak community wary and in turmoil.
Concerned when monthly profit checks from Sunrise Equities stopped arriving in August, no one has seen or heard from the firm’s CEO, Salman Ibrahim. Ibrahim has not returned investors’ phone calls. Phone calls to the firm’s office at 6355 N. Claremont, and its downtown affiliates, Sunrise Development Inc., have also gone unanswered, leaving many of the firm’s mostly Muslim investors wondering where Ibrahim and other corporate officers have gone.
“[Ibrahim] stopped paying the monthly installments,” said Moosa Lathada, owner of a West Ridge realty firm who turned over money to be invested by Sunrise Equities. “I’m calling the office, but no one is answering the phone.”
Lathada said the last time he spoke to Sunrise was around Aug. 6 or Aug. 7. After that, he said, he left town on Aug. 8. When he returned earlier this month, he tried contacting Sunrise’s West Ridge office again.
“In September, I tried to contact them, several times, no one is answering,” Lathada said. “I’m worried about my investment. We just want to know the whereabouts of my money and where he is.”
Investors first noticed something amiss when checks either stopped arriving or were returned for insufficient funds in August and September. Tariq Khawaj, a reporter for the neighborhood’s Urdu Times, said the newspaper’s office has been flooded with dozens of calls from concerned investors. The Urdu Times first reported this story last week.
“People called us, most of the investors are Pakistani or Indian,” Khawaj said. “They told us, ‘have you heard about this guy.’ It’s all over Devon Avenue.”
Sunrise’s client base is around 300 and collectively they have entrusted millions of dollars to Sunrise, Khawaj told News-Star. Calls to Sunrise’s Claremont office, and the two Sunrise Development offices downtown, were picked up by voice mail or simply went unanswered.
Ibrahim founded Sunrise Equities in 2001. It is a Shariah-compliant investment firm that prohibits borrowers and lenders from taking out interest-bearing loans. Such loans are considered exploitative for both borrowers and lenders under Islamic laws. Ibrahim worked with Devon Bank six years ago to set up its Shariah financing programs that allow borrowers to purchase shares in home mortgages and other types of loans.
Instead of paying interest, the borrower makes payments over time, with the interest figured into the transaction price.
“We looked into Islamic financing six years ago,” said David Loundy, corporate counsel for Devon Bank. “We had started looking into it before [Ibrahim] made the pitch [for Shariah financing] based on community demand.”
Loundy said Ibrahim helped coordinate discussions between the bank and Islamic clerics to get its Shariah-compliant programs approved. Devon Bank then had to convince banking regulators that its Shariah finance programs were a sound practice, although non-conventional under U.S. banking practices.
Other than coordinating discussions with Islamic clerics, Loundy said, Ibrahim has had no involvement with Devon Bank’s Shariah finance programs and services.
Ibrahim is also the founder of the Shariah Board of America at 7045 N. Western Ave. Up until two weeks ago, Ibrahim served on its board of directors. He has since been removed.
“The reason we took this step was because he was not an active member anyway, and because of concerns in the community,” said Syed Mohammend Ali Farid, secretary of the board’s parent organization, Rahmat-e-Alam Foundation.
On Sept. 11, the Shariah Board issued a press release, denying that its members were involved with Sunrise Equities. “[Ibrahim] was a member of the board. But it is completely false that Shariah Board or its’ officers supported Sunrise Equities quid pro quo.” [continues...]
Then there’s this:
~snippet~
You see, folks, at this moment, Salman Ibrahim has apparently closed the office of Sunrise Equities, Inc. at 6355 N. Claremont, Suite 201, Chicago Il 60659. Phone calls placed to 773.338.0818 remain unanswered.
Rumor has it he was arrested by the FBI almost two weeks ago for committing fraud. If so, good for the Feebs!
Or, could he be in a hiding place provided by his great friend MUFTI NAWAL UR RAHMAN SAHEB, head of the MASJID-E-NOOR mosque (6151 N. Greenview). This “priest”, as he is referred to, is allegedly involved in the fraud and may have already packed up and left for India. O-ho!
There are others who could allegedly be aiding and abetting Salman Ibrahim: AMJED MAHMOOD (Sr. VP, Sunrise Equities, Inc.); MOHAMMAD AKBAR ZAHID (Sr. VP Community Relations, Sunrise Equities, Inc.);
and the elusive MOHAMMAD TARIQ SIDDIQUI, simply known as a “builder”, but who touts himself as Chairman of Barack Obama’s Finance Committee. Siddiqui IS listed as a “BUNDLER” at whitehouseforsale.org. He apparently has raised at least $50,000 for Obama’s campaign.
http://rp1000.blogspot.com/2008/09/breaking-news-financial-crisis-facing.html
Salman Ibrahim has also made contributions to certain politicos, including Barack Obama.
Financial Crisis in the Muslim Community - part one (Chicago
http://rp1000.blogspot.com/2008/09/breaking-news-financial-crisis-facing.html
FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY (Chicago)
Part Two
http://rp1000.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-crisis-in-muslim-community.html
FINANCIAL CRISIS FACING MUSLIM COMMUNITY Part III
http://rp1000.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-crisis-facing-muslim.html
FINANCIAL CRISIS FACING THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY Part IV
http://rp1000.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post.html
*It gets better:
-Tariq Siddiqui, partner of Salman Ibrahim = Obama bundler
http://news.muckety.com/2008/09/17/obama-less-than-transparent-when-it-comes-to-disclosing-bundler-info/5062
June 7, 2007
Please join
Chairs
Michael Bauer, Paula & Jim Crown, Honorable Dan Hynes, Sandy & Jack Levin, Penny Pritzker & Bryan Traubert, John W. Rogers, Jr., Marjorie & Lou Susman, Tariq Siddiqui, Jim Tyree
~snip~
for a Celebration with
Senator Barack & Michelle Obama
benefiting Obama for America
Friday, June 8, 2007
Co-Host and Sponsor Reception: 4:30 PM
Supporter Reception: 5:00 PM
CARNIVALE
702 West Fulton Market, Chicago
Co-;Host: raise $25,000
Sponsor: raise $10,000
Supporter: give $1,000
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/06/sweet_blog_scoop_obama_funder.html
*****
Do something good this weekend in Rogers Park
Local drive for Hurricane Katrina’s victims!
ZAM’S Hope Community Resource Center, a non-profit organization that provides social services in Rogers Park and West Ridge, is organizing a food drive for Hurricane Katrina’s victims.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Parking lot at the northeast corner of Devon and Rockwell
11am to 6pm
Remarks: 12:30pm
Senator Barack Obama
Please bring non-perishable food items, clothes and money to donate. Checks should be made payable to Katrina’s Relief Fund. Please donate generously!
Hosted by Mohammad Tariq Siddiqui. Sponsored by Alderman Bernie Stone (50th Ward), Broadway Bank, Countryside Bank.
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:im75dZkMUyQJ:www.rogers-park.com/2005/09/do_something_go.html+%22tariq+siddiqui%22+chicago&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15&gl=us
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Tariq is listed on opensecrets.org as a bundler:
$50,000 $100,000 Siddiqui, Tariq Chicago IL
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00009638
Note that Pritzker is also listed. She is Obama’s campaign manager and owns the Hyatt hotel in which the ‘coming together’ will be w I’manutjob and to which the demonstration that is to be helf in front of dis-invited Sarah Palin.
$200,000 $500,000 Pritzker, Penny Chicago IL Global Hyatt 70,700
She also had ties to a failed bank:
For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant business empire.
Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her family’s 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama’s national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her — and perhaps to the campaign.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086352/posts
Apparently, Valerie chairs (or chaired) the board for the U of C Med Center where Michelle My Belle got her cushy job:
U of C shunning poor patients? (Michelle Obama, Axelrod and Rezko all involved)
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 8/23/08 | Tim Novak, Chris Fusco
Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:49:58 AM by Krankor
Sen. Barack Obama’s wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don’t have private insurance — primarily poor, black people — to other health care facilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066783/posts
and she’s also a bundler:
$100,000 $200,000 Jarrett, Valerie Chicago IL
Is also included on the opensecrets list.
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Jarrett is also the CEO of Habitat, a real estate company and an old crony of the Mayor.
All the big bundlers are the same folks who are on the Chicago 2016 Olympic committee.
Obama endorses Alexi Giannoulias (treasurer Chicago)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=869542096788361559&ei=jZrsSJa_GKP0qAL46JXgDA&q=Giannoulias&vt=lf
Note from our thread:
A presidential campaign that banks with crime figures: According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, in 2006 Obama endorsed and appeared in campaign commercials for Alex Giannoulias, a banker who ran for Illinois state treasurer. Obama backed Giannoulias despite reports that his family-owned Broadway Bank made loans to bookmakers, prostitution rings and other criminal operations. “Records show Giannoulias and his family had given more than $10,000 to Obama’s campaign, which banked at Broadway,”
(Remember, the Giannoulias family is mob deep)
On Sunrise site/PRelease
Chicago Tribune Real Estate
Chicago Tribune Real Estate Cover Story
O ye who believe! Devour not usury, doubled and multiplied; but fear Allah; so that you may be successful.
Two Chicago banks — Devon Bank and Broadway Bank, both small North Side institutions in neighborhoods where large numbers of Muslims live — both started shari’ah-sanctioned home-buying programs in 2004. Neither bank’s officials will say how many Islamic home transactions they have conducted, though both say the programs have been received well by their customers.
“For us, it’s a service issue,” says Demetris Giannoulias, chief financial officer of Broadway Bank. “There is a demand for this kind of thing in the community we serve, and if it requires us to do a little extra amount of service to make home buying more palatable to the customer, we’ll do that.”
In January the larger of the two banks, Devon Bank, took a big step forward when it announced that national mortgage investor Freddie Mac will buy its Islamic home deals, giving the bank the leverage to offer its Islamic products in other states. By mid- January, Devon Bank had begun offering the products in 10 states outside Illinois, with more states to be lined up soon, according to the bank’s corporate counsel, David Loundy.
************Strange, but has Arch’s two solid links. Dang. Obama re: Orlando Jones death/Hsu suicide note mentioned Obama? Gian likes the stars
OPRAH/OBAMA | Star-studded spectacular event raises $3 million for campaign
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/549017,CST-NWS-sweet09.article
http://archpundit.com/blog/2008/01/15/nutters-knowing-no-parallel/
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Obama’s ‘Mob-Tie’ $idekick (Bank ties to mob and Rezko)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086862/posts
C:
A presidential campaign that banks with crime figures: According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, in 2006 Obama endorsed and appeared in campaign commercials for Alex Giannoulias, a banker who ran for Illinois state treasurer. Obama backed Giannoulias despite reports that his family-owned Broadway Bank made loans to bookmakers, prostitution rings and other criminal operations. “Records show Giannoulias and his family had given more than $10,000 to Obama’s campaign, which banked at Broadway,”
-And Broadway Bank is one of the banks that Salman Ibrahim from Sunrise Equities and Shariah Board of America advised on shariah guidelines: link at top FR
CHICAGO, IL Political Contributions by IndividualsDemetris Giannoulias (Broadway Bank/Chief Financial Offic), ...... FAWAD H BUTT (SUNRISE EQUITIES/EXECUTIVE), (Zip code: 60612) $2000 to CITIZENS FOR BIDEN ...
www.city-data.com/elec2/06/elec-CHICAGO-IL-06-part9.html
Disappeared, here:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:UBTTVCx5SzYJ:www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/fawad-butt.asp%3Fcycle%3D08+fawad+butt+biden&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
Welcome to Zeus Capital Advisers... services marketplace, the opportunity is still there to develop and distribute essential products and services to Muslims in the US” - Fawad Butt ...
btw Paki amer writer, lives in Chicago)
http://www.zeuscapitaladvisers.com/
Forgot this:
Re: McCain suspends campaign...exposes yellow underbelly.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:12 am
Watch for news from Chicago
The Muslim community in Chicago is in turmoil. A Shari’ah compliant investment from has closed it’s doors without warning and the CEO, one Salman Ibrahim has disapeared. The firm was engaged in real estate investment and redevelopment in Chicago. Muslim investors from Chcago have lost millions.
Mr. Ibrahim has been a major donor to both Obama and Biden for several years. His office is in the same building and adjacent suite to the offices of Muhamed Tariq Siddiqui, another developer. Mr. Siddiqui is a major real estate developer and a partner with Sunrise in several projects. Mr. Siddiqui is also a major Obama donor and fundraiser.
It makes one wonder if there is a tie-in to the Chicago subsidized housing scandal involving Obama described in the Boston Globe (a VERY Dem friendly paper)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
Oddly the national media has never picked up on the Globe story. Perhaps the reporters are too busy checking to see of Gov. Palin really had a valid Moose hunting licence or checking the registration of her husbands snowmoblie.
This is smoking gun stuff for sure!! I will tell everyone I know we will get it to Mark later on,Rush will know for Sure by days end if not sooner. Once again link to bomas member ship in the new Socialist party:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2100517/posts?page=1
Did you see the House of Flowers across the street from the local Coca Cola plant? Had a McCain/Palin sign in front.
Its gone...
Frost/Nixon Clips can still be seen on YouTube. They’re quite fascinating.
That’s what I love~~ HOMEWORK!!
Love you Ali!!
The entire Joisey family went to see “An American Carol” this past weekend, and were mortified by the five minute long trailer for a movie about Harvey Milk. YUCK!
Gotta feel bad for the students at the debate. They could have been in their dorms studying economics or something.
November 4, 2008 -- FReepers help Senator John "Dorando" McCain
across the finish line to win the Presidential race.
In other words a typical day on FR for TROLLS??
“We’re going to have to drag McCain over the finish line and into the White House step by step and then deal with him and his Cabinet appointments later.” ~ Rush
I have always assumed that to be the case.
As an aside, here are Mark Steyn’s comments about McCain looking “more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite failed to go off” that Rush quoted:
Keep your sunny side up [Mark Steyn]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
Republicans have cause to be disappointed by last night: As everyone says, Obama wins by not losing. He looks more and more as if he’s already the president, while McCain prowling the stage seeking to “connect” looks more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite* failed to go off.
Nevertheless.
Before everyone succumbs to a terminal case of inevitabilititis, it’s worth remembering we’ve been here before. In the last months of the primary campaign, the press kept assuring Hillary fans that Obama’s victory was inevitable and the shriller the media Obamaboppers got, the more bluecollar Dems sat on their hands. In the end all the King’s horses and all the King’s men had to drag the guy across the finish line. You couldn’t replay his spectacular victory in slow-motion because it was already slower than any slo-mo technology ever invented.
So we already know there’s a huge disconnect between the unstoppable Messianic force promoted by the media and the cooler appraisal by actual voters. What’s happened since primary season? The Iraq surge (McCain’s unique selling point) is a victim of its own success and has dwindled away to an irrelevant footnote, and the front pages are full of a supposed economic catastrophe which the crude rules of politics suggest any fool should be able to hang on the incumbent.
Yet Obama still can’t open up a solid lead. After all, why would record numbers of viewers watch the vice-presidential debate if the election’s already over?
Meanwhile, the supposedly damaged Republican brand is proving suprisingly resilient. I see one of the two New Hampshire seats that flipped blue in ‘06 may return to the red fold next month. Where’s the blowout?
(*A lot of the dynamite is well past its sell-by date: Two references last night to Ronald Reagan negotiating with Tip O’Neill. No one remembers who Tip O’Neill is. McCain might as well have been evoking misty watercolor mem’ries of Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna. Obama, by contrast, is all future - which is understandable, given his past.) ... 10/08 10:42 AM
It's lefty movie season.
That will be this country soon if we lose this November.
You poor thing. Five minutes of Harvey Milk? ACK!
Yes, but supporters of THE ONE’s cousin.
Yup.
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