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JPost.com » Middle East » Article
Apr 15, 2008 12:48
Seven Kuwaiti Shi’ites to face trial over Mughniyeh eulogy
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
KUWAIT CITY
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Seven Kuwaiti Shi’ites will face trial for allegedly sending a statement to Lebanese and Iranian TV stations eulogizing a slain Hezbollah militant, their lawyer said Tuesday.
Attorney Abdul-Karim bin Haidar said the prosecution charged the men with “spreading false news about the situation in the country,” by sending that statement which “weakened the position of the state abroad.”
He said his clients deny any connection to the statement, which was broadcast by Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television in Lebanon, and Iran’s state-run Arabic channel Al-Alam.
Several of the seven, who include four former legislators and one cleric, attended a eulogy for Mughniyeh in Kuwait shortly after he was killed in a car bomb in Syria in February.”
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“Sharia Finance”
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, April 15, 2008
“Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Alex Alexiev, vice president for research at the Center for Security Policy.”
INTERVIEW SNIPPET: “This coming weekend, for instance, Harvard University is holding a big international conference on shariah finance organized by a center for shariah studies at the law school funded by Saudi money some years back. If you went there, Jamie, you’ll sit through dozens of presentations by well-paid shariah apologists on all imaginable SCF topics, but I’ll bet you $100 to $1 that not a single one will touch on the murderous core teachings of this troglodyte doctrine. This is akin to holding a conference on Nazi ideology and limiting the discussion to their successful programs to eliminate unemployment and build autobahns and kindergartens, without once mentioning that Nazism is first and foremost about genocide.
This is what makes this whole industry reeking of dishonesty or worse. I say worse, because if you start studying it as I have, you get this uncomfortable feeling that you are dealing with something bordering on a conspiracy to prevent the public from really seeing what’s going on. One of the latest trends in SCF, for example, is to stop using the term shariah altogether and replace it with ‘ethical.’ And so now you have various outfits springing up which tell you that they are in the business of ethical investment and you need to look closely to figure out that it is shariah finance that they peddle after all. Even that venerable flagship of free enterprise, the Wall Street Journal, recently co-sponsored a conference on “Islamic Ethical Investment.” Bob Bartley must be turning in his grave.
FP: Are Western banks that promote Sharia Finance today aware of what they are promoting? If so, why do they do what they do? If not, how can they be so ignorant?”