UPDATE: J. Jill, PODS Moving and Storage Caribou Coffee, Church's Chicken owned by Muslim Brotherhood-linked bank

UPDATE: Jihad Watch reader Christopher has just informed me that Arcapita no longer owns either Church's Chicken or Caribou Coffee. Arcapita sold off Church's back in 2009. They held an IPO for Caribou Coffee in 2011 and subsequently divested all of their shares.

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One that used to boast the genocidal Jew-hating Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi among its advisers. Here is the extraordinary expose: "Jihad-Free Holiday Gifts: Check That List Twice!," by David Yeagley, December 28:

What do Caribou Coffee, Church’s Chicken, J. Jill, and PODS Moving and Storage have in common?

They are all owned by Muslim Brotherhood-linked Arcapita Bank (formerly known as First Islamic Investment Bank).

Unlike most banks, Arcapita boasts a “spiritual advisor”–none other than Hamas-linked terrorist Youssef al-Qaradawi. Qaradawi, you’ll remember, is the current spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was exiled from Egypt under Mubarak, but now he’s b-a-a-ack, thanks to U.S. support of the “Arab Spring”.

This is the same Qaradawi who has defended Hitler, pushed for Islamic countries to acquire nuclear weapons for use in jihad, and confirmed that chopping off hands for stealing–as taught by Muhammad (Qur’an 5.38)–can be re-introduced into the “new” Egypt at a later date, as Egyptians learn to submit to orthodox shari’a.

Arcapita, presumably short for “Arab Capital”, buys and sells businesses at a profit. The current list of their holdings is available in their 2011 annual statement (pages 12-13). (If there’s no “exit date” listed, they still own that company.)

Arcapita is based in Bahrain, but it’s U.S. HQ is in Atlanta. First Islamic Investment Bank changed its name to Arcapita in 2005, after the Qaradawi connection went public. They had tried “Crescent Capital” for their American branch, but apparently decided the Islamic link was still too obvious with that moniker. Muslims know that Islam is not selling well in the West; they are careful to conceal Islamic ties with name-changes so consumers cannot connect the dots to brand names or distinguish between products that fund terrorism and those that do not.

Arcapita’s spiritual advisor serves on the bank’s “Shari’ah Supervisory Board” (see p. 113) to ensure that all financial transactions are shari’a-compliant, or SCF. What does SCF include? That varies somewhat depending on which Islamic legal school one is consulting, but always bans anything involving “gambling, alcohol, pornography, dealing in pork products, or interest payments.”

Although Qaradawi no longer serves on that board–he resigned shortly after his involvement with Arcapita went public–it is clear that the firm’s allegiance to Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood remains the same. One of the board’s four members, Muhammad Usmani, is involved with both the Islamic Society of North America see p.62)
and the Islamic Circle of North America (see p. 40), both MB front groups. In 2010, Dow Jones dropped Usmani as an Islamic Index advisor when it discovered his terrorist connections.

Three of the four members belong to the Islamic Fiqh Academy, also MB....

There is much, much more. Read it all.

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"... He (Al-Qaradawi)was exiled from Egypt under Mubarak, but now he’s b-a-a-ack, thanks to U.S. support of the “Arab Spring”."

(2nd video, 7:50) Imam Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, devout Muslim & chief lunatic of Global Muslim Brotherhood:

"... Allah willing. The next time will be at the hands of the believers"

... in other words: ISLAM WILL FINISH THE JOB ... THAT HITLER STARTED


"Qaradawi: No Chopping Off of Hands Now…But Later is OK"

... in accordance with the sadist Allah, Qur'an 5:38 "(thieves) AMPUTATE their HANDS" (also from kids for stealing e.g. a 50 cent candy bar in the supermarket)

I've known about Caribou for years for years and have never and will never patronize their stores or products.

Ironic that last year in a poll conducted by a Washington, DC weekly for gays, Caribou was voted the most liked coffee shop by readers. We all know how tolerant and loving the Islamic religion is towards homosexuals.

Very important article.

We ex-Muslims living with Islam's formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know for certain that Islam is a evil religion/ideology both in part and on the whole.

Speaking as one of the millions of honorable, law abiding ex-Muslims who have committed no other "crime" than having left Islam, I strongly urge ALL non-Muslims to boycott any and all Islam related bussinesses and products.

While yes it is true that there are many well behaved Muslims who are genuinely unaware of the many evils of Islamism, it does not change the fact that this despicable, heinous ideology must be discarded if humanity is to survive into the Twenty Second Century.

Here is my take on the "well behaved" Muslims mentioned above:

The Good Muslims

There are many good people who call themselves Muslims. Ironically, these personally honorable Muslims are the worst of Muslims for they give a bad religion a good name and aid in its continuation. Those Muslims who act as Imams and Islamic “academics” and work to further the goals of this fundamentally unjust, inherently violent, and highly intolerant religion are also doing great harm to humanity.

If these above mentioned groups of persons continue in their ways and succeed in keeping Islam alive and flourishing, the world will be a truly dark place no sane person would want their son or daughter to live in. The time has come for all Muslims, both laymen and learned, moderate and fundamentalist, to objectively re-examine the religion they currently believe to be infallible and beyond the need for critical examination. The horrible truth about the Islamic religion must become known if humanity is to survive.

It has become obvious to many Muslims that there is something seriously wrong with Islam. But what? What is wrong with Islam? Was Muhammad merely a sick human being and a liar? Is Islam the corrupted product of many different hands? These questions are well worth asking as there is so much at stake. Those people who are good people and adhere to Islam must be asking themselves whether Islam is in fact a religion come from God as Muhammad proclaimed. Those Muslims who know of Muhammad’s questionable behavior (murder, assassination, thievery, pedophilia, etc.) are now wondering whether they want to continue blindly following this sick man and his hateful and violent religion.

Unfortunately, the fear that Muhammad’s Islam has induced in the minds of Muslims has rendered them incapable of thinking rationally about the religion. This is changing though, as more and more Muslims become exposed to the grotesque truth about Muhammad and his Islam. Upon learning the truth about Islam, honest people of integrity begin the profoundly liberating process of apostasizing from Islam. It can definitively be stated that no decent person of sane mind, knowing the real facts about Islam, could remain in the religion with a clear conscience. We informed apostates of Islam know for certain that Muhammad’s Islam is in reality the exact opposite of what it claims to be.

Most Muslims genuinely do not know how evil Islamic ideology really is. It is an indisputable fact that Islam institutionalizes discrimination against women and non-Muslims, effectively puts an end to freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, and ensures perpetual warfare amongst mankind. Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is not a flawless faith received from a god on high. Muhammad was not the perfect man. This “religion” is so perverse in fact, that it demands that those who leave it be killed:

Hadith, Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 9, Book 84, No. 57:

Narrated Ikrima:
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire)’. I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him.’”

Qur'anic verses (referring to the prescribed treatment for apostates):

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What is the matter with you, then, that you have become two parties about the hypocrites, while Allah has made them return (to unbelief) for what they have earned? Do you wish to guide him whom Allah has caused to err? And whomsoever Allah causes to err, you shall by no means find a way for him.

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Except those who reach a people between whom and you there is an alliance, or who come to you, their hearts shrinking from fighting you or fighting their own people; and if Allah had pleased, He would have given them power over you, so that they should have certainly fought you; therefore if they withdraw from you and do not fight you and offer you peace, then Allah has not given you a way against them.

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You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given you a clear authority.

All Muslims and non-Muslims ought to think deeply about the implications of the above text quotes.

Muhammad, if he ever existed, was a deranged man. He was so deranged in fact, that he himself believed his own lies. He made his living and satisfied his “needs” by creating enemies and then raiding and looting their property. Muhammad and his gang of criminals butchered thousands of people during their raids. Often the women and children were spared death only to be enslaved and sold for profit or used as concubines and free labor. Many of the modern day followers of Muhammad’s cult of Islam want to re-live that savage age. They want to slaughter “infidels” and take their wives. They want to see stonings, amputations, and mute women in full length black garb on every street. The early Muslims became Muslims by being duped or threatened by that convincing mad man. Modern Muslims, even the most educated, are Muslims due to either fear or ignorance, period.

Those folks who consider themselves to be good Muslims must be terribly disturbed when witnessing the constant horrors being created around the world by their co-religionists who rightly justify their evil deeds in the name of Islam. Tragically, according to Islam, Muslims need only treat Muslims justly - to hell with the rights of those who will not submit to Islam. The misery and loss of life being created by Muslims acting upon Islamic doctrine is staggering. The harm that Islam has wrought upon humanity is without parallel among the world’s religions. It has now become crystal clear to sensible people that Muhammad’s legacy is the most shameful and harmful legacy of all of the leaders the world has come to know by name. The name Muhammad now denotes disgust, distrust and dishonesty. Though for Muslims, as any “true believer” will tell you, Muhammad must still be considered the perfect man, whose every word and example is to be obeyed without question…???

It is quite reasonable that many folks who currently call themselves Muslims are considering walking away from this sick man’s cult/belief system as billions of good people have done before them. Only an imbecile would continue to believe that Muhammad was the messenger of god. Truth be told, many Muslims stay in Islam simply out of fear for their lives. Though the following statement is harsh to be sure, it is none the less true: Educated Muslims, especially those living in non-Muslim majority countries, should be ashamed of themselves for not taking the time to learn and consider the objective truth about Islam from easily available sources and then wholly abandoning Islam and joining the effort to expose this terrible fraud.

Those Muslims who choose to stubbornly cling to Islam knowing what they now surely know about it are stabbing themselves and humanity in the back. Fifty years from now, Islam will be seen as a belief system far worse than even Hitler’s Nazism, and those human beings who remain “Muslim” will be looked upon as mentally ill freaks that no reasonable person would trust or respect. Adherence to Islam in the 21st century is fast becoming known as the ultimate self-betrayal. Now that the truth about Islam has become known, there is no excuse for a free man or women to remain Muslim.

Islam should rightly be abhorred by all persons of conscience. Muhammad’s Islam is a fundamentally unjust ideology with hatred and violence coursing through its veins. ‘The good Muslims’ must decide whether they want to live a lie and go down the dark path of Islam or make the courageous decision to abandon this religion entirely and help in the effort to expose it for what it is. It is time for the good Muslims to come to the realization that Muhammad’s Islam, taken in totality, amounts to a colossal fraud and a terribly harmful ideology.

The enemies of freedom have made inroads--and, yet, too many free people continue to be deaf, dumb, and blind to it; or complicit; or unconcerned (as feigned indifference or otherwise); or a combination of those offenses.

PGuud

Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.


While this is not new news (I read and blogged on it several years ago), it's welcome to re-broadcast. It's important to note that the US Army is complicit in aiding and abetting sharia and all its human rights crimes by leasing space for Church's Fried Chicken on its bases, including Ft. Belvoir, where the trial of Ft. Hood jihad murderer Nidal Hasan is taking place.
The Army is led by bureacrat generals who don't know the first thing about the Islam, and continue to be wantonly duped by stealth jihadists; to be otherwise would jeopardize their career climb. They self-select those who know where not to tread, and scuttled the careers of un-PC soldiers who actually "know the enemy".

Qaradawi is to the MB what Valerie Jarrett is to Rasool Obama...

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