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Britain's a world-leader in sharia banking - but we haven't grasped the sinister and dangerous...
Mail Online (UK) ^ | 2/10/09 | Melanie Philips

Posted on 02/10/2009 10:34:36 PM PST by pissant

Worried that Britain is going bankrupt? Cheer up – we’re about to be bought up by the Islamic world.

A report by International Financial Services London reveals that Britain’s Islamic banking sector is now bigger than that of Pakistan.

The study says that the UK has by far the largest number of banks for Muslims of any western country.

The UK now has five fully ‘sharia-compliant’ banks – providing products which prohibit interest payments and investment in alcohol or gambling firms in accordance with Islamic sharia law – while another 17 leading institutions including Barclays, RBS and Lloyds Banking Group have set up special branches or subsidiary firms for Muslim clients.

The $18billion (£12bn) in assets of Britain’s Islamic banks are said to dwarf those of Muslim states such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey and Egypt. And there are also 55 colleges and professional institutions offering education in Islamic finance in Britain – more than anywhere else in the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: dhimmibrits; mountedlikeagoat; sharia; shariafinance; shariah; shariahfinance; suicide
the limeys are turning into goats.
1 posted on 02/10/2009 10:34:36 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
What the hell are these people thinking??

It's like standing in a railroad tunnel and watching the "bright light!"

2 posted on 02/10/2009 10:37:30 PM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: pissant

They are embracing their dhimmitude..


3 posted on 02/10/2009 10:55:50 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty
LoL! You got it. The UK now has five fully ‘sharia-compliant’ banks – providing products which prohibit interest payments and investment in alcohol or gambling firms in accordance with Islamic sharia law"

"products huh? like no interest paying savings accounts? All you get is a bank book and monthly fee schedule, plus you can't swipe your card at a liquor store or casino.

I'll bet the bankers would love "sharia banking", Not that they aren't nearly there already with the minuscule interest they pay now. The only thing holding them back here is the 21 percent interest they get to charge on credit cards.

4 posted on 02/11/2009 12:04:31 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: pissant

“... ‘sharia-compliant’ banks – providing products which prohibit interest payments and investment in alcohol or gambling firms in accordance with Islamic sharia law...”

I figured the Muslims would not move against alcohol, gambling and homosexuals (the main modern day interests of the British) till they had a firm enough grasp of power but this looks like the move is already being made and shows how they are going to expand it.

The Muslims are smart and we are complete fools because trying to block them makes you “a bad guy”.


5 posted on 02/11/2009 12:11:44 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (I sold my TV to an idiot.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Makes me wonder if Brown and his ilk have a burka fetish.


6 posted on 02/11/2009 12:36:15 AM PST by coydog (Proud to have slept through the Obama coronation!)
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To: pissant

You guys don’t realize how big this is here too.

When you buy Churches chicken, you are funding Sharia banks. Try to find something with pork in a Churches menu. They even fought the franchise owners who bought the franchise and served breakfast (bacon, ham, sausage) before the buyout and the owners had to sue for the right to sell pork.

Here is a list of companies that are Sharia Compliant as they are owned by Arcapita, formerly “Islamic Investment Bank”. They changed the name so people wouldn’t know right off that they were Islamic Banks.

3PD, Inc. – national provider of in-home delivery services based in Marietta, Georgia

Ampad – supplier of paper office products, based in Richardson, Texas

Bijoux Terner[10] – supplier of handbags, jewelry, watches, and other retail goods to airports, hotels, cruise ships, and entertainment venues, based in Miami, Florida

Caribou Coffee – a large coffeehouse chain in the U.S., based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Church’s Chicken – fast-food restaurant franchise, based in Atlanta, Georgia

Cirrus Design – manufacturer of single-engine, piston-powered aircraft for general aviation, based in Duluth, Minnesota

Cypress Communications[11] – small-business telecommunications provider, based in Atlanta

Meridian Surgical Partners[12] – operates mobile surgery centers throughout the United States, based in Nashville, Tennessee

Roxar – manages reservoir problems in the oil and gas industries, based in Stavanger, Norway

Southland Log Homes[13] – a log home manufacturer, based in Irmo, South Carolina

Tensar[14] – site developer and provider of transportation infrastructure services, based in Atlanta

Tender Loving Care Health Care Services[15] – home health care and hospice provider, based in Lake Success, New York

Transportation Safety Technologies[16] – manufactures specialty electrical components and safety products for vehicles, based in Indianapolis, Indiana

Vogica – retailer and wholesaler of kitchens and bathrooms, based in Paris, France

Working Rx[17] – manages workers’ compensation claims for retail pharmacies, based in Salt Lake City, Utah

Yakima Products[18] – manufacturer of sport racks and accessories for cars, based in Beaverton, Oregon


7 posted on 02/11/2009 3:54:30 AM PST by autumnraine ($335 Million for STD research, still no cure for cancer. Thanks Obama)
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To: FixitGuy

“It’s like standing in a railroad tunnel and watching the “bright light!” “

That must be one of the most apt analogies I’ve yet heard.


8 posted on 02/11/2009 6:11:33 AM PST by Moltke
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To: pissant

I had to spend a couple weeks in Londonistan last year for a project. (Or is it perhaps Englandistan now, since it’s not just London but Leicester, Preston, Manchester, Bradford and just about everywhere else.) I will never, ever go back, despite my own ancestral links to the place.

I can’t even honestly say that England is a Western country anymore— it’s more like a colony of South Asia or West Africa at this point, and increasingly Muslim and esp. South Asian in character. (And all those hard-working Poles are going home, sadly enough, as the pound collapses.) Nobody is sure about the statistics since the government deliberately doesn’t keep them, but if you look at L&D stats and residence permits (which I had to as part of the analysis I was doing there), you realize that in England at least, the place probably already has a non-English majority, and even more overwhelmingly so in the lower age strata. There was an article about this recently— http://tinyurl.com/95h6oj Cuts to the chase.

England has been overwhelmed by the single largest demographic change since the Anglo-Saxons came 1,600 years ago. And at the very least, the Anglo-Saxons and the Celts shared a lot of cultural and ethnic similarity, yet proponents of the “mongrel nation” ideal flooding the UK, never keep this fact in mind— supposedly, 1 million Anglo-Saxons, 250,000 Danes and a few thousand Scandinavian Normans were enough to “mongrelize” the nation, which of course means that 20-25 million (at least) from the UK’s former colonies would mean the same minor change. Sure. I can understand why some of this would occur, and I’m totally fine with manageably small numbers of people coming in— Britain had one of the biggest empires after the Mongols and I guess the Commies and Chinese during their own heydays but... Do the authorities really have to allow it to proceed to the point of a wholesale demographic displacement? Because that’s what’s happening.

It’s gotten so depressing that most of the young English that I spoke to are planning on emigrating as soon as possible. But even there, options aren’t so great anymore. The same process is happening in Canada and NZ, let alone in France and even in Australia of all places, there was a recent report about how the country is increasingly taking on an “Asian” (and particularly “Malaysian,” i.e. Malay and Indonesian Muslim) character with the new immigration flows.

It all makes you wonder, what in the world did Britain fight WWI and WWII for, a question made all the more painful for me since one of my own relatives at the time had fought for King and Country in 1914. What were they fighting for, to lead to this abject collapse? Even in World War II, the more that I read, the more that I wonder if Hitler really had much interest at all in invading or even damaging Britain (the thug himself was always praising England before war broke out, didn’t have much of a navy)— his regime was so evil that I’m still glad he was confronted.

But it was WWI that created him, and what was the aim of fighting World War I in 1914? Prussia and the Central Powers drew up their exclusively regional and Continental war plans with an explicit aim of not injuring Britain at all, definitely not invading it— they had some lousy checklist of lame things on the Continent, no interest in threatening Britain.

Yet Britain entered that war on its own decision in 1914, bankrupted itself, lost its empire and drained itself so much of materiel and personnel that by 1950, the UK began on this path of demographic replacement to overcome “labor shortages.” What if they’d just taken an early peace armistice and left by 1915 say? Still an empire, not bankrupted, still with enough manpower to run its own industries, Germany perhaps taking part in some economic union by 1920 (which it wound up starting anyway!) but Britain much stronger and probably Europe’s “neutral” leader above the fray. And most importantly, STILL SOLIDLY ENGLISH in England. What a blunder that sorry war was. It makes me sick to think about it, but England probably slit their own throats by bleeding themselves dry in WWI, and it’s only now that we’re feeling the worst of the consequences.


9 posted on 02/11/2009 1:23:02 PM PST by Javeth
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To: Javeth

If there’s one tiny consolation in this whole mess, it’s that there are still some pockets of the West that are putting up solid and increasingly effective resistance to the Eurabian front. Switzerland and Austria have both installed stridently anti-Muslim, conservative governments in power. And the Swiss are even more pro-gun than the States are— it’s almost mandatory (as a part of army service) to have a gun there. My nephew (currently outside of Lake Lucerne) sent me an article on this— it was in German of course and I could only get the general idea, but they’re serious there about their guns.

Geert Wilders of the Netherlands is the most courageous, diligent and open opponent of Islamization in the West, so much so that the British Stalinists have banned him from entering England. The Dutch have been galvanized since the brutal murder of Theo van Gogh and have among the most stringent anti-Muslim immigration laws in the West now, and Wilders is advancing the process further, with even the Belgians (mostly Dutch-Flemish) finally following his lead and founding their own such conservative, nationalistic parties.

The Danes, of course, were the origin of those cartoons that (rightfully) got the Muslims hopping mad in Europe, and now have their own tough laws that are all but evicting the Muslims from Danish soil. The Germans have followed Austria’s lead with laws that essentially bar the Turks. The Finns and Norwegians are deporting their generally criminal Somalis, the Italians are banning Muslim gatherings. Even the much-maligned French who I trashed above— and who I still think are largely led by Socialist idiots— have been making baby steps in the right direction, with their own recent immigration laws surprisingly Dutch-like in shutting the door on the North Africans, and deporting the ones there. So even for the chronically bumbling French, there may be some prospects.

So some places in the Western world are standing up to Eurabia after all, though we might have to read a foreign language to understand them. It’s a relief that maybe, just maybe, those countries’ citizens aren’t as brainwashed as it often seems.


10 posted on 02/11/2009 1:40:23 PM PST by Javeth
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To: autumnraine; pissant

Here are some more details...

http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/category/frequently-asked-questions/


11 posted on 02/11/2009 3:41:17 PM PST by LSUfan
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To: Javeth

really sad


12 posted on 02/12/2009 11:15:14 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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