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UK: Three government buildings now ruled by Sharia, alcohol banned

Feb 9, 2016 9:01 pm By Robert Spencer

“The central London offices must be run in line with Islamic principles because of a deal with rich Middle Eastern investors.” How much more of this has been done but has not yet come to light? How much more of it will the British do? At what point will British authorities stand up and call a halt to all this, and recognize that most British people do not wish to live in a Sharia state? Is there any point at all at which they will do that, or is Britain’s surrender and submission already too far advanced to stop?

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An update on this story. “The Sharia-run Government buildings where alcohol is BANNED thanks to Islamic finance deal,” by Kieran Corcoran, Express, February 9, 2016:

THESE are the Government buildings where selling alcohol is banned – because of Sharia law.

The central London offices must be run in line with Islamic principles because of a deal with rich Middle Eastern investors.

They demanded the buildings be audited by Muslim scholars and subject to special rules in exchange for lending the Government £200million.

The deal currently only covers three buildings – Richmond House, Wellington House and a property on Whitehall – and is almost unheard of outside of the Middle East.

But Treasury officials hope hundreds of Western companies will follow their lead and turn over buildings to Islamic financiers in similar deals.

The Government launched the financial product – known as a Sukuk – in 2014, and hailed the huge quantity of investment money it raised.

But the repercussions of the deal stayed under wraps until this month, when it was revealed the pact could deprive the UK’s Parliament of alcohol.

One of the buildings – Richmond House – is a potential replacement venue for the House of Commons while the Palace of Westminster undergoes vital repairs.

But if it were chosen, members would have to do without their subsidised bars and restaurants, which offer beer, wine and spirits at knock-down prices.

The exact restrictions under which the buildings must be run which were not spelled out in the text of the deal struck with overseas investors.

The UK only said that its board of Sharia financiers had approved the deal.

But an Islamic finance source, speaking to Express.co.uk on condition of anonymity, said that making money from the sale of alcohol would be likely to spark a row with investors.

The expert, who helped market the UK Sukuk to investors overseas, said a “Sharia disagreement” could erupt if plans to relocate MPs to one of the buildings go ahead.

He said: “If you are generating revenues which are non-compliant – sales of alcohol or something – then doubts could be raised.

“These buildings are used for general governmental purposes. If the buildings were used, say, where alcohol is served, then there is a Sharia disagreement.”

The finance deal – known as a Sukuk – was the first of its kind to be issued by a Western government.

The product was developed because the Koran prohibits making money from interest, meaning investors cannot buy regular Government bonds.

To get around the prohibition, the Sukuk does not technically produce interest – but makes money from other sources, like renting out buildings.

The Sukuk sees the Government “rent” property back to itself, and hand over fixed returns to its investors, which does not count as interest.

In order for the deal to be acceptable, the Government must provide assurances to run the buildings in line with Sharia law, which is ill-defined but broadly understood to include an alcohol ban….

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  1. Matthieu Baudin says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    “…At what point will British authorities stand up and call a halt to all this, and recognize that most British people do not wish to live in a Sharia state?…”

    Perhaps after all the U.K.’s grandmothers have been sold at slave auctions!

    • tilda says

      Feb 9, 2016 at 9:25 pm

      Slave auctions would be Sharia compliant….

      • mortimer says

        Feb 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm

        Enough is enough…Islam is uncivilized…can they not see that without eyeglasses?

        Britain should not sell its culture, its heritage or its principles for a few million…civilization is worth more than all the money in the world!

        • Marty says

          Feb 10, 2016 at 5:28 am

          I am ashamed to be British.
          We have been a nation of prostitutes for decades.
          Everything is for sale from our national heritage to our
          national security.
          Apart from Chinese & Russians (the latter usually gangsters)
          it is oil rich mohammedans, third world peasants with liquid gold
          under their tents.
          A little off topic.
          It has emerged the Levi Bellfield, a vile thug who kidnapped, raped,
          torture & murdered a 14 year old girl, now wishes to be known as
          Yusuf Rahim,
          As the islamic State demonstrates daily, his hideous deeds are now blessed
          with divine authority.

    • Stuart Smith says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 4:32 am

      They will not stand up to this, as they are cowards, and the disease of political correctness has taken hold.

    • quotha raven says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 11:39 am

      to Matthew Boudain – who says, “Perhaps after all the U.K.’s grandmothers have been sold at slave auctions!”

      Or their grandchildren will be. Can anyone else see the writing on the wall?

      Cheers!

      quotha raven

      • Matthieu Baudin says

        Feb 11, 2016 at 8:03 am

        Thanks Quotha Raven, all the best to you too.
        p.s. The British people are being shafted and don’t deserve any of it!

        • quotha raven says

          Feb 11, 2016 at 11:26 am

          to Matthieu Boudin – Sorry I butchered the spelling of your name. No, the Brits don’t deserve it. Nor does any other civilized – or, for that matter, uncivilized- nation deserve even a little Islam in their lives. I love he UK – lived in Edinburgh for a while. Cheers! qr

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      I doubt it; looks to me like the UK is already gone under, when they allow the mass rape of their children to go unchallenged and unpunished; so as to “not offend” OUTSIDERS who are there as GUESTS!

  2. Angemon says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    THESE are the Government buildings where selling alcohol is banned – because of Sharia law.

    The central London offices must be run in line with Islamic principles because of a deal with rich Middle Eastern investors.

    My question is: what happens to anyone caught selling/drinking alcohol there?

    • Stuart Smith says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 4:35 am

      I will on purpose take drink to these buildings, along with pork or bacon sandwiches, or anything else Sharia dislikes, I do go to government buildings as an activist meeting politicians.

      • jayell says

        Feb 10, 2016 at 6:33 am

        Go for it!

      • Vyx says

        Feb 10, 2016 at 11:46 am

        If you do this, you may very well find that there are secret Sharia courts and that you will be punished under Sharia law.

        A more interesting idea would be to have a tv crew try to see what would happen.

        • Stuart Smith says

          Feb 10, 2016 at 12:33 pm

          Any fucking muslim coming complaining in my direction will have a surprise, it will be his first and last time complaining, he will find his 72 virgins are ugly goats.

    • jayell says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 6:31 am

      Well, they’ve been ‘accommodating’ polygamy for some time now, and a recent change in the social security regulations makes it even easier for these sexually incontinent pseudo-human specimens.

  3. FF says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    But of course pedophilia is free and permitted.

  4. Dan Jones says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    The pedophile followers have won in England… They have won in Norway….

    And they have won in Deerborn

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  5. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    This makes me livid because I’ve seen how the mohammedans behave when NOT in their hell-hole muslim countries:

    I was married to an Englishman and was in London in the 80’s. At the Sheraton in London the moslems drank at the [very elegant] bar until they were utterly wasted. While doing so, they made filthy gestures at any unaccompanied woman they saw. I know, because I was one. When my beloved husband went to the Men’s Room, these lowlives propositioned me.

    Some American tourists saw this and started to react. My husband returned, and I urged that we leave. No-I did NOT tell him what had happened in his absence. Had I done so, he’d have attacked the subhumans in question and we didn’t need that.

    But no one reading these things should think for one moment that this filth actually observes any of their ‘religious rules’. Because the lowlife moslems getting wasted were only outdone by their fat slobs of wives who shoplifted from Harrod’s, mocking English law. Oh-and doing so with rolls of pound notes in their burkas, and in front of their children: The better to teach them to despise all things Western.

    • jayell says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 6:39 am

      In the UK, I think the girls of Rotherham, Keighley. Oxford, Bradford, Tower Hamlets (to name just five areas of islamic infestation in the UK) are only too aware of how these mohammedans behave wherever they are. And I believe that the ladies of Cologne have had a demonstration of it as well. Not to mention the female population of Sweden. Shall I carry on?

      • Golem2 says

        Feb 10, 2016 at 11:51 am

        Is pepper spray legal is these areas for Women’s self defense? The attacker should get it after the first 4 or 5 blasts in the face.

        • Petey says

          Feb 10, 2016 at 5:22 pm

          It is in Canada, go to an army surplus store they sell it as dog repellent and bear spray. The law says pepper spray is prohibited, Courts refuse to convict, as pepper spray conforms to the legal concept of least amount of force necessary and is harmless to the human body

  6. Hope says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    The governments of Western Europe, USA, Canada, and Australia have sold out. They have thrown under the bus the very citizens they were elected to serve, and the consequences are real. Politicians, go rot in hell, the lot of you.

  7. worldcitizen1919 says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    This all comes down to money and corruption. The time will likely come that the west sells all its freedoms for $$$$$$.

    So the west can be bought by the highest bidder. What’s new?

    I don’t see any problem with the British people themselves imposing bans of alcohol as a right in a free country but bowing down to the God of money and banning alcohol for monetary reasons is not only undemocratic but succumbing to blackmail and bribery.

    I suppose next on the list is to own all football clubs in Englans and one day the House of Commons.

    Why does the west ALLOW itself to be BOUGHT???????????????

    I suppose the west is flat broke so is selling all its assets (the entire country) to the Arabs.

  8. Paladin says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 1:25 am

    What’s the next demand? No Jews on the premises? Frog meet boiling water….

  9. JFKAR says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 3:31 am

    As the British often say, “Anything for a quiet life.”

  10. John Butler says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 4:39 am

    This could well suit some of our politicians as it would be ‘legal’ in these buildings to have sex with nine year olds and thrash their wives.

  11. Tommy Peters says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 7:41 am

    Follow the path of least resistance and thrive. Governments and corporations are turning to Shari’a finance to fuel economic growth. But remember the epicenter, Saudi Arabia is and has always been, a controlled item. Mecca and Medina were gifts to al-Saud by the ‘sand-artist’ to whom the world is and was always, beholden.

  12. Porcus Scitus says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Terror against England, paid by Sharia compatible finance? A cunning scheme.

    All sharia compatible finance includes compulsory payment to charity of 2.5 % of all transactions (zakat). (See appendix 1 in the book :” ” Sharia: The Threat to America. An Exercise in Competitive Analysis. A Report of Team B II”. From 2010)

    Muslims fighting as soldiers in the cause of Allah (mujahideen/jihadists) have the right to receive money from zakat according to sharia law, paragraphs h4.2, h4.3 and h8.17 in the Sharia manual ”The Reliance of the Traveller

    It is likely that England already is contributing payment to the jihadists that are killing English soldiers on the battle field whenever they are fighting in Muslim territory.

    Islam finance is very, very cunning. Fools Westerners anytime. It was invented by the Muslim Brothers solely to undermine and destroy the Western financial markets. Best jihad of them all.
    http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Shariah_-_The_Threat_to_America_Team_B_Report_.pdf
    http://shariahthethreat.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/reliance_of_the_traveller.pdf

  13. Manual Paleologos says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 9:18 am

    Piss on them. Parliament and the British Courts have the power to set aside any contract terms that are against public policy. They only tolerate that crap because they are willing to do so. Their circus. Their monkeys.

    When their country implodes, we must absolutely seal our borders against British and European refugees. Let them stay home and fight or die. Euronate on them. We don’t want their disease, here. We have enough of their kind already.

  14. Mark says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 10:22 am

    So camer-con must be so very proud, first to betray the uk with shairah funded buying of BRITISH buildings and subjecting MPs to shariah law in that way also.

  15. Douglas Light says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 am

    There are a lot of rugby players that are going to have quite a problem with this. The Islamists better be careful who they mess with.

  16. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 1:09 pm

    As for the banning of alcohol different places, that alone is not the the problem. For alcohol is both useless and worthless and has no value for anything that is good l. With this stated,it’s the reason the for the banning of alcohol that’s;s the problem That is the reason for that ban,that is ,in essence, the caving to the powers of Islamic groups and entities. This religion they have is even more useless and worthless then alcoholic drinks. Many times that religion is also more dangerous and deadly then the specific kind of drink. After all, it wasn’t alcohol that inspired the tragic murderous affront that occurred on September 11, 2001. Likewise, it wasn’t that type of drink that inspired and caused those brutal ,vicious and deadly jihad terror attacks on the night of November 13, 2015 in Paris ,France. Is was Islam with it’s murdering militant jihad. So we ,meaning the Westerns, in our different countries should not cave in to any Islamic pressure lobby groups or any other kind of Islamic powers.

  17. Tiredofstupid says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    You would think some bright british politician (oxymoron, I know) could get the idea that not paying the rapefugees welfare and then extra payments for multiple wives would save enough BILLIONS OF POUNDS that they wouldn’t have to prostitute their heritage and National security. The only figure I can find estimates 13 billion pounds a year in benefits and does not include the added costs of policing and security, theft, insurance increases because of the rising crime rates, or the human costs for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousand of young (some very young) british (mostly white) schoolgirls that have been raped and molested since the muslim invasion geared up in the last 20 years.. Thats just in the UK Add in the rest of europe and the cost has to be in the hundreds of billion of euros just over the past few years.

  18. Arthur says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    Maybe now the English parliament will “sober up!”

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