The British officials’ reasoning here is clear: they think that jihad terrorism is a product of ignorance and lack of opportunity, so if they adopt Sharia-compliant loans to make it easier for Muslims to get a good education, they will be able to stave off jihad terror, the goal of which is to make them adopt Sharia. So they’re right: as they adopt Sharia willingly, bit by bit, they make jihad terror unnecessary. There is no need to fight a foe who has already surrendered.
“Plan for ‘Sharia-compliant’ student loans to get more Muslims into university,” by Graeme Paton for the Telegraph, April 3:
A new system of “Sharia-compliant” student loans is to be launched to allow more Muslim students to go to university, it has been announced.
David Willetts, the Universities Minister, said an alternative financial model was being created to satisfy Islamic law that forbids Muslims taking out loans that make interest.
Under the system, students would apply for taxpayer-backed loans but repay them into a mutual-style fund that would be ring-fenced to provide future finance to other students with the same religious beliefs.
The move will raise concerns over a two-tier system in which Muslim students pay less than other undergraduates.
But the Government insisted it would be set up in a way that ensured repayments were made at the same rate as students who take out traditional student loans.
It comes just weeks after it emerged that Sharia law was to be effectively enshrined in the British legal system for the first time under new guidelines for solicitors for Islamic wills.
Around 115,000 Muslim students currently attend universities in the UK but it is claimed that many have been put off a degree by the Coalition’s new loans system – introduced in 2012 – that carry a real rate of interest above inflation. It coincided with a near tripling of the cap on tuition fees to almost £9,000.
Omar Ali, president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, told the Telegraph: “We know of many students who finished college but decided not to go to university because of the way the new system was set up. We welcome this proposal.”
The announcement was made as part of a wide-ranging strategy designed to boost access to degree courses for under-represented groups. This included a new responsibility for universities to help boost post-graduation employment rates for poor students.
Mr Willetts said the Government wanted to make the “path to university easier for everyone”, adding: “We are aware that some Muslims and young people of other faiths might be put off taking out a conventional student loan.
“To address this we have developed a potential model alternative finance product which would be Sharia-compliant and could be offered alongside traditional student loans.”
The plans have been set out in a consultation document published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
It says the Student Loans Company will create a completely new fund based on the “Takaful” structure used in Islamic finance – allowing groups of people to cooperate to provide mutual finance assistance to other members of a group.
Students will borrow up to £9,000 a year to cover tuition fees and start to repay when they earn more than £21,000 – the same as the traditional model.
The document says: “The principles of Sharia law recognise the value of money over time. Given the long period over which most students would make repayments into the fund, the total contribution they would be obligated to make would be based on a benchmark.
“This benchmark would be set relative to the traditional loan system and would ensure that students who made use of either the alternative finance product or traditional loans would be treated the same.”
It says the money paid back “would help future students benefit from the fund, allowing them to complete their studies as the original student did”.
“The mutual basis of this structure, with members of the fund helping each other attend higher education, makes this model acceptable under Sharia-law,” it adds.
How wonderful.
mortimer says
Exactly. No need to fight an enemy who has surrendered.
The universities, run as businesses, tailor the truth for the highest bidders.
enwhitenment says
Considering most of the snakes preaching hate claim to have higher educations or be scholars it is unlikely that this will impede radicalism.
Considering that the outcome is the same & either way you repay greater than you borrow it is the narrow minds of a few that creates these situations.
Are the loans free of obligation or subject to zakat or khums & can a muslim women ever be expected to repay the loan if she is to raise a large family from a young age & be available to her husband whenever he wants sex.
Islam is a contradiction in itself & appears ridiculous for good reason.
rightrightright says
“Under the system, students would apply for taxpayer-backed loans but repay them into a mutual-style fund that would be ring-fenced to provide future finance to other students with the same religious beliefs.”
So they won’t be paying back the infidel taxpayer then.
“The mutual basis of this structure, with members of the fund helping each other attend higher education, makes this model acceptable under Sharia-law,” it adds.”
Which emphasises that they will not be paying back the infidel taxpayer. Very acceptable under sharia law to extract jizya.
sudki says
i am student of southampton in england and trust me, the more they get educated , they get indoctrinated by islam. the other day i was at an islamic society lecture and they were distributing flyers asking members to establish a caliphate. its universities where these people get indoctrinated and these campuses have been active in recruiting soldiers for allah to fight in the syrian war.
If such events happened in my country of india ,people would have been charged for sedition. sadly uk is blind to all of these threats.
Ray Lanfear says
You are correct. Read this. http://wp.me/p2GpDB-cF
dumbledoresarmy says
Sudki
thank you for sharing this information. I assume you are not Muslim? – that you are secular, or Hindu, or Sikh, or perhaps even a Christian?
I would advise you to write to the Education Minister in the UK – and to the Shadow Education Minister – and describe what you have seen happening, and express your concerns (if you know names of some of the mohammedan individuals and groups that worry you, give the names). Also, write to the Minister for Homeland Security. If other non-Muslim Indian students in the UK, known to you, have observed similar goings-on, encourage them to do the same.
I also advise you to get in touch with a group called the “Law and Freedom Foundation”, led by a British citizen and lawyer called Gavin Boby. He may have some good advice for you and other concerned non-Muslim foreign students in the UK.
http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/
Another person to get in touch with is Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party/ Liberty Great Britain.
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/
Here he is, being interviewed:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/40906
Another good blog to visit, besides Jihadwatch of course (do please stick around and let us – and Mr Spencer! – know what you see happening on the UK university campus), is the New English Review (one of the most interesting commenters there is one “Esmerelda Weatherwax”, a Londoner born-and-bred, and another is the redoubtable ‘Hugh Fitzgerald” who is something of an Indophile). You might want to contact Esmerelda Weatherwax – there is a contact form – and tell her what you’ve been seeing; or just comment at the blog.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/
Truthsayer says
The UK education system believes it operates with many guidelines promoting Equal Opportunities and when I worked within the system in the 80s it was awash with policies to promote EO. I found then, as I am seeing now that EO was often quite the opposite. It would in some cases operate a policy they call ‘positive discrimination’ which gives priority to one sector over another. And as we see here, the system is bending to those that cry the loudest as being oppressed and the education department is so fearful of being labelled a racist and an islamophobe if they rejected the cry. So EO is being ditched again.
I would like to ask if a Sharia compliant loan is so important to the student why don’t they go to one of the Islamic banks rather than demand the State changes its system to provides a Sharia style loan. Well we know why. Sharia creep.
bill says
Absolutely ridiculous. many of the terroist acts have been carried out by educated people, or they were behind them. Also western education has no appeal for Muslims who think all knowledge they need is in the Quran.
This is probably just an attempt to attract more Muslim voters to the Tory party
which is already pandering to them all the time.
allan carr bryan says
They should use the money that’s going to be spent on further Education to repatriate these Barbarians back to the country of their forefathers, even if they are born here. WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE spouting all your shit.
Michael Copeland says
The UK government is profligate with taxpayers’ money.
There is a huge sum, £46bn and growing fast, in student loans to be repaid
( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-26171742 ).
Unwilling to bother to collect it, and silently deciding that much of it will never be repaid, the government has sold the debt to a debt collection agency for ONE SEVENTH (about 15%) of the total owed. The rest is quietly written off.
Now the government is seeking to lend MORE.
This lending is, itself, borrowed money, as there are not enough taxpayers’ funds.
The universities are propaganda centers for left wing socialism: that is probably the unstated rationale.
tpellow says
Recent history context-
“Muslims in Britain Demand Sharia-Compliant Student Loans”
by Soeren Kern
(2011).
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2388/sharia-compliant-student-loans
veggiedog says
Stupid is as stupid does.
No money will ever get repaid, but i guarantee loans will continue if this is put in motion.
How stupid.
Hummer says
Billy Clinton years ago said similar about ignorance and lack of opportunity. History proves him and the UK wrong and it is time to wake up and realize this is evil ideology that will continue to seek dominance by violence.
Wellington says
Actually, this will make the Islamic cancer which afflicts the UK grow faster and not slower. Fascist ideologies like Islam trump everything else—–education, graciousness, gratefulness, a Golden Rule for all, love, friendship, family, yes everything.
citycat says
I wouldn’t be surprised if some percentage of those loans will be going to YKW.
Money has been sent to Islam from the non infidels in England since Islamic time began here.
Ray Lanfear says
One only has to google “theprojectmuslimbrotherood” to understand where Islam is after 20 years of infiltration into our towns, cities, schools, universitites and our own government. They will not stop until Islam and Sharia law is global. They are a threat to any country. Read this. http://wp.me/p2GpDB-cF