Uncle Sam's Sharia Board
Yes, there is a stealth jihad angle to the AIG debacle. In "Forget bonus outrage, what about ‘ShariAIG’?," March 20, Diana West explains:
[...] Fume, baby, fume. But there's more. The nationalization of AIG is not just bankrupting the country by throwing billions of our dollars at AIG's toxic assets. The nationalization of AIG is forcing the American taxpayer to support a very different kind of toxic asset. I refer to AIG's promotion of Sharia (Islamic law) in its Takaful division, the Sharia-compliant insurance sector of AIG. Since we the people own 80 percent of AIG, we the people now promote Sharia, too.Don't believe me? Takaful insurance, our very own AIG Takaful Web site explains, "avoids prohibited elements in accordance with the Sharia law," adding: "We do not invest in anything that is haram (prohibited under Sharia). We do not borrow, lend or enter into any financial transaction that is unIslamic."
At the very least — aside from promoting from the law of the Koran, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, the mullahs of Iran, the clerics of Saudi Arabia (not to mention Afghanistan, whose Sharia-supreme "justice" system recently upheld a journalist's 20-year prison sentence for "blasphemy") — taxpayer support for AIG is by definition sectarian and therefore in violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
It is on these grounds — that the American taxpayer is now directly funding sectarian Islamic religious activities — that a lawsuit, conducted by the Thomas More Law Center, has been filed against the government. Recently, the Justice Department, another U.S. taxpayer-funded entity last time I checked, entered the case to defend the AIG bailout, filing a motion to dismiss, the Thomas More Law Center notes, based on this being a time of "crisis."
You better believe this is a time of crisis — but not the crisis envisioned by Justice officials charged with safeguarding gross government fecklessness. Only two of our elected officials — Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., and Frank Wolf, R-Va., and bless them for it — have publicly decried the government's AIG Sharia-bailout; that's a crisis. Chump change bonuses arouse the wrath of the nation — not the nefarious movement to nationalize the marketplace; that's a crisis, too. The American people are angry, good. But we need to understand there are far more important things to be angry about.
And here is more, from Diana's website:
Meet Moe, Larry and Curly. I mean, Mohamed, Muhammad, and Mohammed.* As members of the AIG Takaful Shariah Advisory Board, they really work for you and me, the American taxpayer, ever since we the people bought an 80 percent stake in the bankrupt insurance company. [...]Mohamed #1 is Mohamed Ali Elgari, born Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The AIG Takaful website boasts that he's the winner of "the Islamic Development Bank prize in Islamic Banking and Finance for the year 1424H."
1424H? That's 2004 for infidels. (Do the Islamic math here.)
Someday, we'll consider Elgari's career trajectory typical. That is, where once our elites went from say, Groton to Yale College to Harvard Law School, now, pace Elgari, they go from from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia to the OIC to Harvard Law School. There, not far from the statue of John Harvard, the crews rowing on the Charles, and, of course, Harvard Yard, the Saudi sits on "the advisory board of Harvard Series in Islamic Law."
In other words, the cancerous advance of sharia into our institutional organs has already reached a critical stage.
Read about the rest of AIG's Sharia Team here....
Read it all.