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Sunday, July 1, 2012
[grendelreport] Sell your home to Muslims and you could be supporting Sharia Finance Law
Subject: Re: [grendelreport] Sell your home to Muslims and you could be supporting Sharia Finance Law
People inadvertently support Shari'ah with their purchases too.
Buy your coffee at Caribou? A Shari'ah-compliant company. (You'll note no pork products in its sandwiches, either.)
Buy a roof-rack from Yakima instead of Thule? You're supporting a company foundationally devoted to the advancement of Shari'ah.
Get a bucket of chicken at Church's? Not only were your tasty chickens slaughtered while facing Mecca and hearing the name of Allah chanted over them, your dollars flow into coffers architected to be Shari'ah-compliant.
These are just a few of the companies funded by Arcapita. (Church's has since been sold by Arcapita.) See http://www.arcapita.com/about/corpinfo/shariah.html for more information and their other disclosed investments.
Sharia Law is already being practiced in America in the form of Sharia Financing. One more good reason never to to sell your home to Muslims.
VOA NEWS Khadijah Sahak, 59, sits in the family room of her neatly-kept townhouse in Sterling, Virginia. The Afghan news program broadcasting from her wall-mounted flat-screen television is discussing the Taliban.
This leafy Washington suburb is a long way from the refugee camp in Pakistan where Khadijah’s family says they lived after leaving Kabul in 2002. “We like the house very much,” she says in Dari, adjusting the white headbag draped loosely around her face. “We are very comfortable here. We are at peace.”
Sharia Finance helps fund terrorism
It is a peace Khadijah thought she could never enjoy in the United States. When her grown son, Nabi, offered to help his parents buy a home, Khadijah and her husband refused to live in a house bought with a traditional mortgage.
As practicing Muslims, they believe demanding or paying interest on money - like the kind paid on a home loan - is prohibited by strict Islamic practice. “Everyone in my family was, in one way or another, against the idea of conventional mortgages,” says Nabi.
Then he heard about the Michigan-based Ijara Loans, one of a handful of Islamic financing companies in the United States. They've tapped into a niche market of devout Muslim-American homebuyers by offering “Sharia compliant” home purchasing contracts which do not include actual interest.
“That day they got really excited, when they learned that they were able to still buy a house and not compromise their religious values,” Nabi says of his parents.
When the Sahak family bought the Sterling townhouse in 2010, they joined about 10,000 other Muslim-Americans who've purchased homes in the past 10 years using Sharia-compliant financial transactions. Guidance Residential, based in Reston, Virginia, is the largest company in the United States which offers Sharia financing. At its spacious headquarters, phone operators manage calls from customers mostly in a mix of English and Arabic.
Spokesman Hussam Qutub says the company has processed $2.3 billion in Islamic home financing transactions since it launched in 2002.
Instead of charging interests on a monetary loan, Islamic finance companies generally offer homebuyers a sale, rent or partnership contract on the home. “In order to be done right,” says Sabahi, “the bank needs to truly purchase the asset, own it and then transfer this ownership to its customers. And a trade - as opposed to lending in the conventional sense of the word - is what Sharia signs off on and approves.” The buyers never feel they are paying interest on money.
“If I can live in America and feel that I own a home that is completely in line with my Islamic system,” says Nabi, “then I guess the pleasure of living in that house would be tenfold.” “We were very happy that we found an Islamic bank,” Khadijah chimes in. “We didn’t like the other banks. If we want to buy another house it will be from an Islamic bank and I tell my friends that, too. We are more comfortable like this.”
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