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Is Sharia Banking Safe for Canada? (2010-01-29) Dan Verbin ShalomLife With the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation releasing a report this week that may pave the way for widespread availability of Islamic financial instruments in Canada – including Sharia-compliant mortgages – an expert on Islamic banking is cautioning that Canadians should examine the implications of implementing the report’s recommendations. Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, a New York-based author More >> |
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The Fifth Generation Warfare (2008-06-20) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPage magazine.com [From Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; Edited by Jeffrey Norwitz; U.S. Naval War College, June 2008, chapter 28.] * The United States and the West cannot win the war against radical Islam merely with the most sophisticated military strategies. Winning requires understanding the role of shari'a and the Muslim Brotherhood in developing a global More >> |
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Shari'a Financing and the Coming Ummah (2008-06-05) Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Chapter 28, Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; EDITED BY JEFFREY NORWITZ, FOREWORD BY ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER, U.S. NAVY (RET) AND FORMER DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. U.S. Naval War College, June 2008. The United States and the West cannot win the war against radical Islam merely with the most sophisticated military strategies. More >> |
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Tithing for Terrorists (2007-10-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld & Alyssa A. Lappen National Review Online “Governments have political considerations,”“ said senior N.Y. Senator Charles Schumer, upon learning in September that Bourse Dubai intends to buy 20 percent of NASDAQ. Republican Senator Bob Bennett of Utah countered, saying, “Dubai is making a purchase on the open market of an asset that’s for sale. What’s wrong with that?” Senator Bennett is correct — buying portions or all of NASDAQ is More >> |
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The Camel in the Tent (2007-10-08) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Times Objections to Borse Dubai's proposed acquisition of 20 percent of Nasdaq last week prompted Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank to quip, "In the ports deal, the concern was smuggling something or someone dangerous... What Adinare we talking about here ˜ smuggling someone onto a stock exchange?" It is not "who" Dubai will smuggle into the stock exchange we should worry about. It's the arrival More >> |
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Terrorism and Organized Crime Intensify the Economic Jihad (2007-07-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Terror Finance Blog The stronger Islamist Jihadist group become, the more funds are needed to support their activities. The stronger Islamist Jihadist become, they are able to extort more influence over criminal gangs. They charge "protection" money from drug traffickers and other gangs, and often employ fraudsters, or even assign members to carry out large scale "theft of highly enriched uranium and other nuclear More >> |
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Carter's Arab financiers (2006-12-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061220-092736-3365r.htm To understand what feeds former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Israeli frenzy, look at his early links to Arab business. Between 1976-1977, the Carter family peanut business received a bailout in the form of a $4.6 million, "poorly managed" and highly irregular loan from the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). According to a July 29, More >> |
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Saudi Charity Begins...Nowhere (2006-07-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23261 Upon hearing Warren Buffett’s announcement on June 25, 2006, of giving $37 billion to charitable foundations, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, declared that Muslim organizations “are lagging behind,” only because of More >> |
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Protecting U.S. Strategic Assets (2006-03-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21778 While different port security bills have been proposed after the Dubai’s retreat from the U.S. deal, few, if any tackle the issue of foreign ownership. Yet, as U.S. Rep Christopher Shays noted, “We should want to pay particular attention to this because after 9/11 we're not just fighting terrorism we are fighting More >> |
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Welcoming Terror to U.S. Ports (2006-02-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21413 President George W. Bush justifies the sale of the private British company that manages six U.S. ports to the government owned Dubai Ports World, saying that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a close ally of the U.S. in the war on terror. Indeed, the Jebel Ali terminal in Dubai transports at least 40% of US supplies to the troops in More >> |
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Port Terror (2006-02-18) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld with Walid Shoebat http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/RachelEhrenfeld/RE021906.php |
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The Clash to End All Clashes? Making sense of the cartoon jihad. (2006-02-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/symposium/symposium200602070754.asp In belated response to a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed published in a Danish paper and subsequently reprinted across Europe, scenes of outrage filed out of London, Beruit, and Damascus, among other cities this weekend. Flags and embassies burned. Placards (in London!) read: "Behead those who More >> |
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The Caliphate is Coming (2006-01-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21082 To Mousa Abu Marzuk, Deputy Chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau in Damascus, HAMAS’ triumph is an important springboard towards the establishment of the Caliphate – a global Islamic state, where life would be dictated by the Shari’a. In a statement Abu Marzuk made on January 26, following HAMAS’ More >> |
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Saudi Interest in America (2006-01-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20927 Many are aware of widespread Saudi investments in the United States, but few know how potentially harmful they are. Moreover, U.S. policy-makers remain unaware of this grave danger. On Sept. 28, 2001, after the attacks on the United States, Osama bin Laden called for financial jihad against the United States, and on Dec. 27, More >> |
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Buying Fox News (2005-12-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20490 Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal boasted in Dubai earlier this week about his ability to change the news content that viewers around the world see on television. In early September 2005, Bin Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp. This made the Fifth richest man on the Forbes World's Richest People, the fourth largest More >> |
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Banned in the U.K. (2005-10-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19950 I was prevented from attending a meeting last weekend that I organized in the U.K. on "How to Combat Terror Financing." Had I gone, I would have been in jeopardy due to British libel laws. I have been sued for libel in London by the Saudi billionaire Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz because my book, Funding Evil, documents how his More >> |
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Saudi Dollars and Jihad (2005-10-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19938 Earlier this month, President George W. Bush finally declared that our war is with Radical Islam. He said: “In pursuit of their goals, Islamic Radicals are empowered by helpers and enablers…They are strengthened by front operations – such as corrupted charities – and those who aggressively fund the spread of More >> |
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U.S. companies and Islamic law (2005-10-06) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20051005-092022-7457r.htm It's time for the United States to limit financial transactions that involve American companies to governance by secular laws. The swelling oil revenues of the Gulf states have created demand from those markets for U.S. investments in banks, real estate and industrial stocks. Most has been invested according to the usual financial More >> |
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Financial Jihad (2005-09-22) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen humanevents.com http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=9235 "A universal Islamic banking system is a jihad worth pursuing to abolish this slavery [to the West]," former Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahathir told a banking conference in Kuala Lumpur in November 2002. The conference was convened following the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. “to absorb the 11 September shock and reinforce the More >> |
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Islamist Terrorism - America's Internet (2004-09-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications61.htm Terrorists websites can be shut down, especially when the Internet Service Providers are American. The case of decommissioning three PIJ hate spouting websites, is a case in point. Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Justice noted that "the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is one of the most violent terrorist organizations in the More >> |
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The 9/11 Commission and Saudi Arabia (2004-08-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200408170825.asp The final report of the 9/11 Commission contains many useful recommendations, but on at least one score it is critically deficient. In its study, the Commission fails to identify the major sources of financing for the al Qaeda organization Instead, the report claims that "there is no convincing evidence that any government More >> |
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Dollars For Terror (2004-08-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications58.htm Nevertheless, the U.S. government seems to be dragging its feet on indicting those who finance Islamist terrorists - based, in large part, on their identity. What else could explain the conspicuous lack of an indictment against the Amman-based Arab Bank, which has been instrumental in transferring donations from the Holy Land More >> |
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Ashcroft slow to prosecute Muslim charities who fund terror groups (2004-08-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld jewishworldreview.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications59.htm Whenever the Attorney General's office announces a score in the War on Terror, it does so with great fanfare - and then too often drags its feet. What gives? To emerge victorious in the war on terror, the United States and it allies need to quickly identify the direst threats and eliminate them with rapid, pinpoint responses. On More >> |
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The Saudi Connection - Their oil thicker than our blood (2004-06-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200406010834.asp "Forum shopping" is the latest tactic employed by wealthy Saudis seeking to skirt American justice. First, the Saudis funded the World Trade Center terrorist attack that cost the lives of 3,000 Americans. Now the same Saudis are funding a cynical campaign using English libel law to attack Americans' First Amendment rights by suing More >> |
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Familiar Scene - Feeding continues, so terror continues (2004-04-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200404140848.asp "I am the beating arm for Hezbollah and Hamas here in Iraq," declared Muqtada al-Sadr last week. Yet, despite President's Bush's statement Tuesday night that "The violence we are seeing in Iraq is familiar, " the U.S. fails to directly acknowledge that there is no difference between the Shiite and Sunni militias in Iraq and More >> |
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