{"id":1477,"date":"2009-12-30T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2009-12-30T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:45:23","slug":"knowing_our_enemy_part_3_the_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Knowing Our Enemy Part 3  &#8211;  The Finances Of Our Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third in a series of four articles from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/OpEd-Contributor\/Jihadist-terrorists-are-still-trying-to-kill-us-8691103-80172257.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;which they have posted to help all of us understand who we are fighting in the war on terror.&nbsp;It is written by David Yerushalmi and can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/OpEd-Contributor\/Shariah-finance_-The-deadly-Jihadist-weapon-with-a-dollar-sign-8696751-80282782.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Yerushalmi begins the article citing the meltdown of Dubai World &#8212; a quasi-sovereign global concern that owns 77 percent of the international port manager DP World and the single largest real estate developer in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>He points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;What makes this story more than simply one of a massive real estate investment company gone bad is the double-edged sword so prevalent in the chase for oil-based Middle East wealth: Sovereign wealth funds and Shariah-compliant finance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Beginning in the 1970&#8217;s with the oil embargo and the continually rising prices of oil, Persian Gulf countries have had major amounts of money to spend.&nbsp; Since 9\/11 the Muslim Brotherhood has been aggressively&nbsp;promoting the doctrine of Shariah-compliant Finance.&nbsp; The goal in doing this was to impose Shariah law as the supreme law of the world (this is another reason we need to develop our own energy sources).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Dubai World, a company wholly owned by the Dubai sovereign has funded itself through debt to the tune of $60 billion. The Dubai debt now in default just happens to be SCF bonds, or &#8220;sukuk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;These bonds pay interest just like their forbidden cousins in the Western markets, but the interest is put into a black box of Shariah-created fictions and &#8220;special purpose vehicles&#8221; to keep the forbidden interest off the books.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Right now we have a combination of greed and extreme self-interest in the international financial world and a blindness of western governments to the threat financial sharia represents.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The result has been the perfect convergence: Western financial markets in dire need of liquidity; the liquidity available in the sovereign wealth funds of the Persian Gulf Shariah faithful; and the willful blindness by Western governments to understand the threat Shariah poses as an existential and institutional reality within a financial system already on the precipice of wholesale failure.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Again, I would like to point out the words of Mark Tapscott&nbsp;who explained in his introduction to these four articles&nbsp;that our first and most important defense against the enemy we are facing in the war on terror is to know the enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third in a series of four articles from the Washington Examiner&nbsp;which they have posted to help all of us understand who we are fighting in the war on terror.&nbsp;It is written by David Yerushalmi and can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}