Canary In The Coal Mine

Voices of Palestine: Mahmoud al-Zahar

by Frank Crimi  |  FrontPageMag.com  |  October 26, 2011

 

Editor’s note: Below is the second profile of Frontpage’s new series, “Voices of Palestine,” which will illuminate the core beliefs, in their own words, of leading figures in the Palestinian death cult. To view the profile of Ahmad Bahr, click here.

When Hamas released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity in exchange for over 1,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists, it was met with considerable opposition from those who believed it would only encourage more kidnappings and terrorism. Almost immediately, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar fully confirmed this worry, saying in a newspaper interview, “The lessons we’ve learned by kidnapping soldiers leads us to continue the kidnappings. We still have 7,000 prisoners in (Israeli) jails, and they also need to be released.”  But, unlike Israel, al-Zahar is not interested in these prisoner exchanges for the purpose of liberating innocent Palestinians. Rather, he is determined to amass as many foot soldiers as possible in order to obliterated Israel and drive its Jewish population into the sea.

To achieve this goal, al-Zahar’s Hamas has for decades employed suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets. While al-Zahar currently resides in the “political-wing” of Hamas, prior to that he cut his teeth planning these attacks in Hamas’s “armed-wing,” the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

When al-Zahar first ascended to his ministerial post in 2006, he outlined Hamas’s foreign policy agenda in a series of public broadcasts. In one broadcast, al-Zahar said Hamas “would not change a single word in its covenant,” which calls for the destruction of Israel and Jewish genocide. He added, “Israel is not a legitimate entity, and no amount of pressure can force us to recognize its right to exist.” Then, for those who may still not have understood the message, al-Zahar further assured them, “By God, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine. We will fight them with all the strength we have. This is our land, not the Jews.”

In a 2010 television broadcast, al-Zahar intoned, “We have liberated Gaza, but have we recognized Israel? Have we given up our lands occupied in 1948? We demand the liberation of the West Bank, and the establishment of a state in the West Bank and Gaza, with Jerusalem as its capital – but without recognizing [Israel]. This is the key – without recognizing the Israeli enemy on a single inch of land…I say this loud and clear so that nobody will accuse me of employing political tactics. We will not recognize the Israeli enemy.”

Of course, even if Israel were to cede all “disputed territories,” as they’re called, that wouldn’t be enough to satisfy al-Zahar and his Hamas compatriots. Al-Zahar made that point clear as early as 2005 when he said, “Neither the liberation of the Gaza Strip nor the liberation of the West Bank or even Jerusalem will suffice us. Hamas will pursue the armed struggle until the liberation of all our lands. We don’t recognize the state of Israel or its right to hold onto one inch of Palestine. Palestine is an Islamic land belonging to all the Muslims.”

Al-Zahar has been equally clear as to his plans for the Jews after Palestine is “liberated”: “We are no weaker or less honorable than the peoples that expelled and annihilated the Jews. The day we expel them is drawing near…We have learned the lesson – there is no place for you among us, and you have no future among the nations of the world. You are headed to annihilation.”

It should be noted that al-Zahar’s mission to annihilate the Jews comes with several preconditions. As he explained in 2006, “Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.”

Only a problem for Israel and the Jews? Not according to al-Zahar.  Achieving Allah’s directive in “Palestine” is only the beginning. In 2004 al-Zahar said:

We are part of Allah’s promise that Islam will enter Palestine and every home in the world, with a revelation of the power of Allah the Omnipotent, and a revelation of the inferiority of the infidels. Hamas is leading this plan in Gaza, the West Bank, and the 1948 territories, and the Muslim Brotherhood is leading it everywhere else. This is part of Allah’s predestination.

Al-Zahar’s Islamist vision was on display later that same year when he spoke at the funeral of the first female Hamas suicide bomber, promising, “She is not going to be the last because the march of resistance will continue until the Islamic flag is raised, not only over the minarets of Jerusalem, but over the whole universe.”

Al-Zahar’s admiration for death and destruction is not confined to Palestinian suicide bombers. He also praises his Islamist brethren in Afghanistan, the American-killing Taliban:

The Taliban are 1,000 times more honorable than the American occupation and its collaborators…Everyone must stop blaming the Taliban for things that in fact characterize the people of the West, who seek to turn the international community into a swamp of corruption and destruction, and to spread abomination and disease in the name of absolute freedom.

Perhaps al-Zahar’s admiration for the Taliban arises from that terror group’s frequent use of suicide bombers, many of whom are women and children forced into the act. During the al-Aqsa Intifada from 2000-2004, Hamas and its allies launched 138 suicide attacks against Israelis, killing 319 Israeli soldiers and 745 civilians, and wounding 2,430 soldiers and 5,032 civilians. Sixty-nine of the suicide attacks were carried out by children under the age of 18.

One might be misled into thinking that al-Zahar’s recent call for Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah (Hamas’s rival), to abandon his unilateral UN statehood bid was an indication that his views are softening. But, in actuality, al-Zahar opposes the move because he does not want a Palestinian state side by side Israel. He is only interested in one Judenrein Palestinian state. As he once said, “I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it. I hope that our dream to have our independent state on all historic Palestine.”

No amount of prisoner exchanges or concessions by the Israelis will allow that dream of al-Zahar’s to die. He’s made himself perfectly clear on the subject. If only the world would take his words seriously.

Source:  http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/26/voices-of-palestine-mahmoud-al-zahar/

Muslim Arab Anti-Semitism

by: Facts and Logic About the Middle East  |  FactsAndLogic.org  |  No date given

 

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Anti-Semitism has often and rightfully been called the longest hatred, the oldest prejudice. It has plagued Europe for a very long time and has, over the centuries, brought untold suffering to the Jewish people. Its most deadly expression was the Nazi Holocaust, which caused the death of 6 million Jews and extinguished ancient civilizations in much of Europe. So terrible, so evil were those events that anti-Semitism was shunned and repudiated by the civilized world.

What are the facts?

Anti-Semitism is integral to Muslim culture. But while anti-Semitism has indeed been shunned by the civilized world, things are quite different in the Muslim/Arab world because anti-Semitism is an integral part of their religion and culture. The Muslim countries are the only places in the world in which anti-Semitism is publicly endorsed and where it flourishes. The Koran abounds in anti-Semitic statements. An expression of that hatred toward Jews is imbued in Muslim children from an early age. It is the fate of Jews in Muslim lands. For centuries they were tolerated, but only in the submissive capacity of "dhimmis" – second class citizens. They were subjected to countless humiliations, bizarre rules of conduct and clothing and in many cases to assaults and pogroms. When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews in Muslim lands had to flee for their lives or were driven from their homes, where they had lived, in most cases, for centuries. When Israel emerged victorious from the 1967 Six-Day War, virtually all of the remaining Jews were expelled – from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Morocco. In those countries, virtually no Jews remain today. The vast majority of them wound up in Israel where they and their descendants form a large part of the population and are fully integrated, of course. Compare that to the Palestinian refugees, who, mostly at the urging of their leaders, fled the nascent Jewish state in 1948. Their descendants, who have now miraculously increased to 5 million, still live today in miserable refugee camps, at the dole of the world – mostly of the United States, of course.

Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, which is prohibited in Germany, is, in Arab and Farsi translations, a perennial best seller in Muslim countries. So is the fraudulent invention The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Muslim world is the only place in which those scurrilous books are readily available. A recent Egyptian television series of 41 installments, based on the "Protocols," was a huge success in the Muslim world.

Holocaust denial. Holocaust denial is a favorite topic in the Muslim world. The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (a reputed "moderate") wrote his doctoral thesis with this title: "The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement." In some regards, Arab Jew-haters are even worse than their infamous predecessors. For all their terrible deeds, the Nazis never lionized their killers, named streets or buildings after them or encouraged their children to emulate them. That is, however, standard practice in the Muslim world. To kill Jews, to become a martyr, is the highest goal and promises immediate access to a paradise of unbelievable pleasures.

Many people believe that the existence of the state of Israel is the cause of this hatred and that Muslim anti-Semitism would disappear if the Jewish state would disappear. But that is not true. As former "refusenik" and Jewish Agency Chairman, Natan Sharansky, has said: "The Jewish state is no more the cause of anti-Semitism today than the absence of the Jewish state was a century ago."

Hatred of Jews is an integral part of Arab/Muslim culture and did not come about with the creation of the Jewish state. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, at that time the highest Islamic authority in that part of the world, was a staunch and steadfast ally of the Nazis, a trusted accomplice of Hitler. He personally raised SS Waffen troops among the Bosnian Muslims and promised the Nazis that he would fully cooperate with them in the extermination of the Jews in the Middle East. That was in the 1930's – 20 years before the creation of Israel. One shudders to imagine what the Arabs would have done to the Jewish residents of the area if the Nazis had come out victorious in World War II.

Israel has tried for over 60 years to come to terms with its Arab-Muslim neighbors. But it is difficult to make peace with those who think of them as sons of pigs and apes. In the words of Hezbollah's secretary general, Hasan Nasrallah, who declared: "If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak or feeble… we would not find anyone like the Jew." How can one make peace with such people, with hatred like that?

Gerardo Joffe, President

 

Source:  http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_129.html

Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad

by Robert Spencer  |  FrontPageMag.com  |  October 24, 2011

 

It has been a long time coming, but the Obama Administration has now officially banned the truth. Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole declared Wednesday at a conference in Washington that he had “recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security.” This “reevaluation” will remove all references to Islam in connection with any examination of Islamic jihad terror activity. The Obama Administration has now placed off-limits any investigation of the beliefs, motives and goals of jihad terrorists.

Dwight C. Holton, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, emphasized that training materials for the FBI would be purged of everything politically incorrect: “I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.”

Holton said that he had spoken with Attorney General Eric Holder about FBI training materials that Holton claimed were “egregiously false,” and that Holder “is firmly committed to making sure that this is over….we’re going to fix it.” Holton said that this “fix” was particularly urgent because the rejected training materials “pose a significant threat to national security, because they play into the false narrative propagated by terrorists that the United States is at war with Islam.”

Cole suggested that these training materials had done damage domestically as well: “One of the many, tragic legacies of 9/11 has been an increase in prejudice, discrimination and hatred directed against persons of the Muslim and Sikh faiths and those who are, or who are mistakenly perceived to be, of Arab or South Asian descent. Some have wrongly sought to blame the horror of 9/11 on Arab-American, Muslim American, Sikh-American and South Asian American communities. It has led to attacks against places of worship and other hate crimes, to job discrimination, and to the tragic harassment of children in our schools.”

After sketching out this horror tale, Cole declared: “We must never allow our sorrow and anger at the senseless attack of 9/11 to blind us to the great gift of our diversity.” And this, he said, must involve a rejection of the stereotyping of Muslims: “All of us must reject any suggestion that every Muslim is a terrorist or that every terrorist is a Muslim.  As we have seen time and again – from the Oklahoma City bombing to the recent attacks in Oslo, Norway – no religion or ethnicity has a monopoly on terror.” It was George Bush, he said, who after 9/11 “made clear to the nation that these terrorist acts were committed by individuals who distort the peaceful religion of Islam,” and now all government analysis of jihad terror would reflect that perspective.

Of course, the controversial training materials did not really claim that all Muslims are terrorists or that all terrorists are Muslims, and it is noteworthy that Cole had to resort to dismissive caricatures to make his point. For in taking this course, the Obama Administration is bowing to pressure from the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Islamic advocacy groups. In a Los Angeles Times op-ed that appeared on the same day as the conference in Washington, Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) roundly criticized existing training materials about jihad terror and demanded that the FBI and the Justice Department “issue a clear and unequivocal apology to the Muslim American community; establish a thorough and transparent vetting process in selecting its trainers and materials; invite experts who have no animosity toward any religion to conduct training about any religious community to law enforcement.”

Al-Marayati complained that training materials reflected “bigoted and inflammatory views on Muslims, including claims that ‘devout’ Muslims are more prone toward violence, that Islam aims to ‘transform a country’s culture into 7th century Arabian ways,’ that Islamic charitable giving is a ‘funding mechanism for combat’ and that the prophet Muhammad was a ‘violent cult leader.’”

In this al-Marayati was simply repeating talking points from an “expose” of FBI training materials by hard-Left journalist Spencer Ackerman in Wired, who has been conducting a campaign for some time to get the bureau to purge its terrorism training seminars of any hint of the truth about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. Yet like virtually all Leftist and Islamic supremacist critics of anti-jihad and anti-terror material, Ackerman and al-Marayati take for granted that such assertions are false, without bothering to explain how or why. Apparently they believe that their falsity is so self-evident as to require no demonstration; unfortunately, however, there is considerable evidence that they are true, and that in banning such materials, the Obama Administration has essentially banned the truth.

Are “‘devout’ Muslims are more prone toward violence”? While certainly not all devout Muslims are terrorists, virtually all Islamic terrorists are devout Muslims. In recent years, not only Osama bin Laden but also devout Muslims such asKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, would-be Times Square bomber Feisal Shahzad, Arkansas jihad murderer Abdulhakim Muhammad, and other jihad terror plotters such as Khalid Aldawsari, Baitullah Mehsud, and Roshonara Choudhry, among many others, reference Islamic teachings to justify violence against unbelievers. Just recently, Detroit underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declared in court that Muslims should only be judged by the Qur’an.

Is the “Islamic charitable giving” a “‘funding mechanism for combat’”? If not, one wonders why so many Islamic charities in the United States and around the world have been shut down for funding terrorism, including what was once the largest Islamic charity in the United States, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), as well as the Global Relief Foundation (GRF), the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), and many others.

Was Muhammad a “violent cult leader”? Certainly one definition of a cult is that members are not free to opt out if they choose to do so – and it was Muhammad who enunciated Islam’s notorious death penalty for apostasy by saying, “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him.” (Bukhari 9.84.57). Also, there are several celebrated incidents in which Muhammad lashed out violently against his opponents, ordering the murder of several people for the crime of making fun of him — including the poet Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old, and the poetess Asma bint Marwan. Abu Afak was killed in his sleep, in response to Muhammad’s question, “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” Similarly, Muhammad on another occasion cried out, “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of his followers, Umayr ibn Adi, went to her house that night, where he found her sleeping next to her children. The youngest, a nursing babe, was in her arms. But that didn’t stop Umayr from murdering her and the baby as well. Muhammad commended him: “You have done a great service to Allah and His Messenger, Umayr!” (Ibn Ishaq, 674-676).

Al-Marayati’s demand that the FBI and Justice Department “invite experts who have no animosity toward any religion to conduct training about any religious community to law enforcement” is at the heart of this entire affair, and illustrates the assumptions upon which the Obama Administration is now proceeding. For years Islamic advocacy groups like MPAC and Hamas-linked CAIR have asserted loudly and often that telling the truth about Islam’s doctrines of jihad warfare and supremacism constituted “hatred,” and endangered innocent Muslims. Hamas-linked CAIR has trumpeted and even fabricated hate crimes against Muslims in order to exaggerate this perception of Muslim victimhood.

The entire premise of all this, however, is false. The now-banned FBI training materials were not written out of hatred for Muslims. They were put together in order to give agents an accurate picture of the beliefs and perspectives of jihad terrorists. It is unfortunate but true that the Qur’an and Sunnah do contain doctrines of warfare and exhortations to make war against and subjugate infidels (cf. Qur’an 2:191; 4:89; 9:5; 9:29; 47:4, etc.), and it is not an act of “hatred” to point this out, or even to scrutinize the Muslim community in the U.S. in order to try to determine its view of these texts and teachings. The only people who are genuinely threatened by such scrutiny are those who wish jihad terrorism to be able to proceed unhindered.

And there’s the rub: in banning the truth about Islam and jihad, the Obama Administration has opened the door for increased jihad terror activity in the United States. Agents who do not understand the threat they face and are constantly surprised by the places where that threat is coming from will be powerless to stop this jihad activity. And the nation will reap the whirlwind.

 

Source:  http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/24/obama-adminstration-bans-the-truth-about-islam-and-jihad/

Pro-Israel Activists Slam Praise of ‘Anti-Semitic’ Book

by Johnny Paul, Jerusalem Post Correspondent  |  JPost.com  |  October 23, 2011

 

‘The Wondering Who’ by London-based Israeli Gilad Atzmon hailed by US academics Mearsheimer and Falk.

LONDON – Uproar has broken out since American academics John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk have endorsed a new book by a London-based Israeli musician accused of being an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier.

Chicago University professor John Mearsheimer, author of the 2007 book The Israel Lobby, and Princeton professor Richard Falk, the UN rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, gave promotional words for a book written by Gilad Atzmon (Pictured).

His book, titled The Wondering Who, has been described as contemporary cultural racism and as an attack on Jewish identity inspired by Soviet anti- Semitism, by analysts and experts.

Renowned American law professor Alan Dershowitz said the book has crossed the line from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism and said their endorsement was something he has not seen in his lifetime.

“I challenge Mearsheimer and Falk to a debate on whether they have endorsed an anti-Semitic book,” he told The Jerusalem Post on Friday. He said he plans to expose their action widely, both in the academy and elsewhere.

“Atzmon has adopted all the classical definitions of anti- Semitism, he uses the same tropes borrowed from Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other Nazi publications – that Jews control the world, are responsible for the credit crunch, believe Hitler was right,” he told the Post.

“[Mearsheimer and Falk] have crossed a red line that has never been crossed in my lifetime.

Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti- Defamation League, said the endorsement reveals what he knew, that Mearsheimer is an anti-Semite.

“With his glowing endorsement of a book by a known Hitler apologist and Holocaust denier, John Mearsheimer has revealed himself to be an anti- Semite,” he said. “For years, Mearsheimer paraded as an objective analyst, professor and critic, and for years we were very careful not to label him as an anti-Semite. Now he has clearly aligned himself with the worst kind of anti-Semitism.

“Gilad Atzmon is a well-known anti-Semite and a promoter of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and perverse historical distortions of the Holocaust.

He is a fringe character who has suddenly gained greater attention because of the Mearsheimer endorsement of his book,” Foxman added.

Mark Gardner, director of communications for the Community Security Trust, a charity that monitors and records anti- Semitic incidents in the UK, said the book represents utterly contemporary cultural racism.

“Practically every page is adorned with disgusting quotes, as reflected in a chapter titled ‘Swindler’s List,’” he said.

Gardner said the promotional words from Falk and Mearsheimer “elevates a fanatical crank to literary status.”

“Mearshemier’s quote is an especially repulsive, as it accuses ‘Jewish leaders’ of Zionism, described as “blind loyalty to Israel,” and scaremongering, described as “the threat of another Holocaust,” he said.

“Atzmon’s hatred is one thing, but for a Chicago University professor to echo it with such grotesque misrepresentations of Jewish behavior, is something else entirely,” Gardner said. “The book advertiser wants all of the profit and none of the moral responsibility.”

British but New York-based journalist and blogger Ben Cohen said the book was clearly inspired by Soviet anti-Semitism.

“When Atzmon traffics in anti-Semitic tropes – for example describing the ‘credit crunch’ as a ‘Ziopunch,’ or declaring that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an accurate reflection of the global power of American Jews – he radiates the delight of someone liberated from a huge emotional burden,” he said in an article in this week’s New YorkJewish Week.

Responding to Mearsheimer, Cohen said it cannot be left for others to determine what constitutes hatred of the Jews.

“The term ‘anti-Semitism’ was coined by anti-Semites in 19th century Germany. It’s a word that’s never been owned by the Jewish community. That has to change – we cannot allow Mearsheimer and those like him to determine what does and what does not constitute hatred of Jews,” Cohen said.

Described by its publishers, Zero Books, as “An investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology,” a note was placed on its website defending the backlash against the book.

“[The book is] more articulate and far more authoritative than anything I could say. I haven’t seen anything since to persuade me that we are deluded or anti-Semitic inpublishing this book. In the light of this, I think it would be reprehensible to cancel publication because authors were threatening to leave us. That would really make us guilty of what we’re already being accused of by some; ‘you’re only publishing for the money,’” the statement read.

“So we’ll take the heat, whether it’s [oddly enough] from the far left or neo-con right.”

 

Source:  http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=242902

Sharia Now The Law In Sudan

by Charlie Butts, One News Now | OneNewsNow.com | October 21, 2011

Sudan is officially declaring sharia to be the law of the land -- and that spells trouble for Christians there.

The government is introducing an entirely Islamic constitution, which means a very strict form of sharia. President Omar Al-Bashir is quoted as saying the new constitution will reflect the fact that 98 percent of the people are Muslim. "The official religion will be Islam and Islamic law the main source," he stated on October 12. Al-Bashir had voiced similar warnings last December, before the secession of South Sudan.

Jonathan Racho of International Christian Concern tells OneNewsNow that the Republic of South Sudan, which is mostly Christian and animist, will not be affected by the move because it seceded this summer. But Christians still live in the north, he cautions.

"So if the government of Sudan introduces strict Islamic law, it means that the rights of the Christians in Sudan and other Muslims in Sudan are going to be compromised," Racho warns.
 
But to what extent will their rights and beliefs be compromised?

"People who are not Muslims who live in an Islamic state are not considered as full citizens and they are deprived of their freedom to worship," he explains. "That includes freedom to assemble together and worship the Lord and freedom to speak about their faith to others."

The constitution would impact the Nuba Mountains, which is predominately Christian and a region that wanted to secede with the South but was not permitted to do so. Sudan has been bombing the region and destroying villages and churches.

According to Open Doors USA, Sudan is one of the 50 countries in which the worst Christian persecution exists.

Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Persecution/Default.aspx?id=1462220

CAIR's Odd Stand on Iranian Assassination Plot

From: IPT News  |  InvestigativeProject.org  |  October 19, 2011

 

CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, obstructed by the camera, is two seats away from Ahmadinejad.

 

 

A criminal complaint issued last week alleging members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States triggered bi-partisan outrage in Washington and international condemnation.

The plot, had it not been interdicted by federal law enforcement, was seen as a potential act of war on American soil by a hostile regime. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton labeled it an international act of terrorism.

But there has been an odd silence from America's national Islamist organizations. None has issued a release on the case. And when officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have commented, they have criticized the government's case and spoken in defense of the Iranian regime.

Executive directors Zahra Billoo of CAIR-San Francisco and Dawud Walid of CAIR-Michigan challenged the case's legitimacy, calling out Attorney General Eric Holder and accusing the FBI of fabrication and entrapment. The plot unraveled when Mannsor Arbabsiar, a naturalized American citizen of Iranian descent, reached out to what he thought was a representative of the Zeta drug cartel to carry out the attack.

The representative really was a Drug Enforcement Agency informant who recorded Arbabsiar's conversations. Arbabsiar is in custody, charged with conspiracies to murder a foreign official, to use a weapon of mass destruction, and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism transcending national boundaries.

Since then, CAIR-National has linked to an article on a leftist website from its Twitter account, posting the headline, "US Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot Claims."

"Not believing AG Holder on Iran-Mexican drug cartel alliance," Billoo, of CAIR-San Francisco Bay Area, said in a Twitter post.

Similarly, Walid rejected the Obama administration's intelligence detailing Iranian involvement.

"If Holder hadn't announced so many 'foiled' plots that were really FBI provocateur led, I'd be more inclined to believe this #Iran plot biz," said Walid.

That post appears to have been taken down. A second Twitter post challenged the government's case. "Obama said evidence released but not there is none about senior Iranian officials. I read the comments carefully." He issued a similar tweet doubting claims Iranian officials were involved a day earlier, adding the Internet slang "smh" for "shaking my head."

No one has said the evidence has been released publicly. The complaint alleges that Arbabsiar was working with a Quds Force officer and arranged to have $100,000 wired into a bank account as a down payment for killing the Saudi ambassador. Such action, officials say, could not have been done without the knowledge and tacit approval of senior officials.

Walid also circulated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the plot on Al-Jazeera English. The "U.S. accusations over plot are attempts to divert attention from its own problems," Ahmadinejad said.

Walid routinely complains of perceived injustices by American law enforcement.

He spent a year trying to cast a 2009 shooting of a Detroit imam as unjust, even though Imam Luqman Abdullah fired first as FBI agents tried to arrest him. Abdullah had long vowed not to be taken peacefully and none of Walid's allegations of wrongdoing were substantiated in a series of subsequent investigations.

Billoo's San Francisco chapter drew attention early this year when it promoted a "Know Your Rights" event with a poster urging people to "build a wall of resistance" from the FBI. She also criticized a sting operation that led to the arrest of a Muslim man who thought he was detonating a bomb at a Portland Christmas tree lighting ceremony. "The question is, are we looking to stop radicalization and stop extremism before it becomes a problem or do we want a sensational story?" Billoo told a local television station. "And I'd really argue here that the FBI was looking for a sensational story."

CAIR's silence is reminiscent of its reaction to the Iranian regime's brutal repression of the peaceful anti-Ahmadinejad protesters after the June 2009 presidential elections. No statements of solidarity with the protesters. No calls for the violence to stop.

The situation could be putting CAIR leaders in a bit of a bind. They have had positive interactions with Iranian media and government, but they also are reliant on wealthy Gulf donors for operating funds. In 2006, CAIR officials traveled to Saudi Arabia, a majority Sunni kingdom, seeking millions of dollars in support, State Department records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

In this case, CAIR might argue it is preserving its connections to the Iranian regime because they can have a benefit. Executive Director Nihad Awad was part of an interfaith delegation that traveled to Iran last month to help free American hikers, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal.

But CAIR officials also often appear on the Iran's government-controlled English language news outlet, PressTV, where they criticize American policy or complain of the "plight" of Muslims in America. In particular, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper recently argued about the rise of Islamophobia in America for "political reasons" on PressTV.

Ahmadinejad has come to New York in recent years to address the United Nations General Assembly. While many Western diplomats walk out during his remarks, American Islamists seek audiences with him.

Awad spoke at a 2009 interfaith program Ahmadinejad attended while in New York. According to a letter from Joseph Gerson of the pacifist Quaker group, the American Friends Service Committee, Awad "stressed that Islam teaches the importance of justice – even in response to enemies, and that terror must always be condemned and rejected.

Likewise, other Islamist groups in America, such as the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), also remain silent on the alleged Iranian attempt to mount an attack on U.S. soil.

Given a chance to speak directly to Ahmadinejad in 2007, Mahdi Bray, then the director of MAS's political arm, said nothing about Iranian government repression, but was quick to slam the United States for "the injustices that are heaped upon Muslims right here in America."

Bray repeatedly told the Iranian leader "we share your vision" and that Allah demands his people confront injustice anywhere in the world. "We do share your vision that we must actively – actively – embrace this vision of resisting injustice no matter where it may be," Bray said. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, we share your vision for justice for all the people of the world."

It's not as if CAIR, MAS and other national Islamist groups are shy when it comes to foreign affairs. In a statement following a U.S. drone strike which killed American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki last month, CAIR distanced itself from Awlaki's violent rhetoric, but also expressed concern about due process rights for Awlaki, an American citizen.

These organizations have actively supported the non-violent Arab Spring uprisings against dictatorships in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet they have nothing to say when the Islamic Republic of Iran is implicated in a plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador on American soil.

Source:  http://www.investigativeproject.org/3241/cair-odd-stand-on-iranian-assassination-plot

The United Nations: Accessory to Slavery and other Crimes Against Humanity

by Simon Deng  |  Hudson-NY.org  |  October 19, 2011

 

Like you, I came to this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance to protest this third Durban conference which is an effort based on a set of lies, and organized by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of oppression.

Durban III will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has lost its way. Its obsession with the Jewish obvious: . For over 50 years, 82% of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler could not have been made happier.

Given all the good Israel does in the world, given its democracy and its striving to follow the highest standards of human rights, even in the face of the most brutal, the most fanatic enemies, the Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people know that.

But friends, I come here today to make a different case. I come with what you might at first think is a radical proposition: I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN's anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.

By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far larger scale.

For over fifty years the indigenous black African population of Sudan -- Christians and Muslims alike --- have been the victims of the brutal, racist Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.

In South Sudan, my homeland, Sudan, about four million innocent men, women and children were slaughtered from 1955 to 2005. Seven million were ethnically cleansed, and they became the largest refugee group since World War II.

Everybody at the United Nations is concerned about the so-called Palestinian refugees. They dedicated a separate agency to provide for them; this agency, UNWRA, treats them with a special privilege.

Meanwhile, my people, ethnically cleansed, murdered and enslaved, are relatively ignored. The UN even resisted using the word "slavery" to describe the enslavement of tens of thousands of my people. Why? Because slavery is a crime against humanity, apparently no one committing it wanted to end up before an international court. When Khartoum insisted that the term "abducted people" be substituted for the word "slaves," the UN, caved to Arab pressure and agreed. Try that in America. Try calling Frederick Douglas an "abducted person." It is outrageous.

The UN refuses to tell the world the truth about the root causes of Sudan's conflicts. Take Darfur, for example. Who knows really what is happening in Darfur? It is not a "tribal conflict." It is a conflict rooted in Arab colonialism, as it has typically been practiced in Africa. In Darfur, a region in the Western Sudan everybody is Muslim. Everybody is Muslim because the Arabs invaded the North of Africa and converted the indigenous people to Islam In the eyes of the Islamists in Khartoum, the Darfuris are not Muslim enough. And they also do not want to be Arabized. They like their own African languages and dress and customs. They resist Arabization. The Arab response is genocide. But nobody tells the truth about Darfur.

In the Nuba Mountains, another region of Sudan, genocide is taking place as I speak. The regime is targeting the black Africans -- Muslims and Christians. This happened to the Nuba people before. In the 1990's hundreds of thousands were murdered; a large number of women were raped; children were abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. Nobody at the UN told the truth about the Nuba Mountains.

Do you see a massive amount of outrage and reports and protests about this coming out of the UN or Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International? Do you hear them condemn Arab anti-black racism?

Look at the pages of the New York Times, or the record of the UN condemnations, What you will find is "Israeli crimes" and Palestinian suffering. My people have been driven off the front pages by the exaggerations of Palestinian suffering. Why? Because what Israel does is portrayed as a Western sin that we are all supposed to address.

The truth is that the West commits a real sin when it abandons us: the actual victims of non-Westerns. Our suffering has become almost taboo.

Let me return to the topic of slavery: while there are issues that divide public opinion, we can all agree that for one man to own another is a sin, and it should be stopped. The Americans tore themselves apart over the issue of slavery.

Chattel slavery, a centuries-long practice in Sudan, was revived as a tool of war in the early '90s. The Islamist regime in Khartoum declared jihad, or holy war, and thereby legitimized taking slaves as war booty. Arab militias were sent to destroy Southern villages and were encouraged to take African women and children as slaves. We believe that up to 200,000 were kidnapped, brought to the North and sold into slavery.

I am a living proof of this crime against humanity.

I do not like talking about my experience as a slave, but I do it because it is important for the world to know that slavery exists even today.

I was only nine years old when I was made a slave. An Arab neighbor named Abdullahi tricked me into following him to a boat destined to Northern Sudan where he gave me as a gift to his family. For three and a half years I was their slave going through something that no child should ever go through: brutal beatings and humiliations; working around the clock; sleeping on the ground with animals; eating the family's left-overs. During those three years I was unable to say the word "no." All I could say was "yes," "yes," "yes."

The United Nations knew about the brutal enslavement of South Sudanese by the Arabs from the early days of the conflict. Human Right Watch issued extensive reports about the issue. These reports gathered dust on UN shelves. It took UNICEF – under pressure from the Jewish –led American Anti-Slavery Group -- sixteen years to acknowledge what was happening.

As soon as the Sudanese government and the Arab League pressured UNICEF, the UN agency backtracked, and proceeded to criticize the Non-Governmental Organizations that worked to liberate Sudanese slaves. In 1998, Dr. Gaspar Biro, the courageous UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan who reported on slavery, resigned in protest of the UN's actions.

My friends, today, tens of thousands of black South Sudanese still serve their masters in the North and the UN is silent about that. It would offend the OIC and the Arab League. So much for "human rights for everybody".

As a former slave and a victim of the worst sort of racism, allow me to explain why I think calling Israel a racist state is absolutely absurd and immoral.

I have been to Israel five times visiting the Sudanese refugees. Let me tell you how they ended up there. These are Sudanese who fled Arab racism, hoping to find shelter in Egypt. They were wrong. In 2005, the refugees camped outside the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Cairo looking for mercy. Instead, the United Nations closed its doors and left the helpless women and children at the mercy of the ruthless Egyptian security forces who brutally slaughtered at least 26 of them.

After this event the Sudanese realized that Arab racism is the same, whether it is in Khartoum or in Cairo. So they continued looking for a shelter and they found it in Israel. Dodging the bullets of the Egyptian border patrols and walking for punishingly long distances, the refugees' only hope was to reach Israel's side of the fence, where they knew they would be safe.

The fact that even Darfuris, who are Muslims, chose Israel above all the other Arab-Muslim states of the area, speaks volumes.. Israel is racist? Israel is against the Muslim world? Ask the thousands of black Muslim Darfuris who found shelter inside the Jewish state.

When I asked the refugees about the treatment they receive in Israel, their response is absolutely the opposite of what the United Nations alleges. They were welcomed and treated like human beings. Compared to the situation in Egypt, they described their lives in Israel as "heaven." No-one called them "abid" – an Arabic word for slaves often used in Sudan, Egypt and other Arab nations.

Is Israel a racist state? To my people, the people who know racism – the answer is absolutely not. It is a state of people of the colors of the rainbow. Jews themselves come in all colors, even black. I met with beautiful black Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Israel is a state that has taken my own black people in, rescued them, and helped them.

So, yes … my claim may be a radical claim: I claim that the victims who suffer most from the UN's anti-Israel policy are not just the Israelis but all those people who have to be ignored in order for the UN to tell its big lie against Israel: all those victims of non Western abuse, especially all those victims of Arab and Muslim abuse: women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, homosexuals, in the Arab and Muslim world. These are the biggest victims of UN Israel hatred.

So far, the Israelis have only been cursed by the UN. But look at the situation of the Copts, the Christians in Iraq, and Nigeria, and Iran, the Hindus and Bahais and Sikhs who suffer from Islamic oppression. We all suffer. We are ignored, we are abandoned so that the big lie against the Jews can go forward.

Before I conclude let me tell you a story that reflects a special connection that the people of South Sudan feel toward Israel. In 2005, I visited one of the refugee camps in South Sudan. I met a twelve year old girl who told me about her dream. In a dream she wanted to go to school to become a doctor, and then, she wanted to visit Israel. I was shocked and numb. How could this refugee girl who spent most of her life in the North know about Israel? When I asked why she wanted to visit Israel, she said: "This is our people." I was never able to find an answer to my question.

On July 9 of 2011 South Sudan became an independent state. We achieved freedom despite the opposition from the Arab world and despite the United Nations, whose General Secretary, Bi Ki Moon, lobbied for the unity of Sudan. For the South Sudanese, that would mean continuation of oppression, brutalization, demonization, Islamization, Arabization and enslavement.

In a similar manner, the Arabs continue denying Jews their right for sovereignty in their homeland; and the Durban III conference continues denying Israel's legitimacy.

As a friend of Israel, I salute the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, who had the courage to state publicly that South Sudan embassy in Israel will be built--- not in Tel Aviv, but in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.

I also want to assure you that my own new nation, and all of its people, will oppose racist forums like the Durban III. We will oppose it by simply telling the truth.

This originally appeared in a a slightly different form as an address at a conference titled "The Perils of Global Intolerance", in New York City, September 22, 2011.

Source:  http://www.hudson-ny.org/2518/united-nations-slavery

Hating Israel at New York University

by Richard L. Cravatts  |  FrontPageMag.com  |  October 19, 2011

 

The recent call by NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for TIAA-CREF to divest holdings in targeted companies doing business in Israel is part of a troubling trend that exposes dangerous radicalism on campuses disguised as efforts at achieving social justice. In 2010, for instance, student-led groups at both UC San Diego and UC Berkeley introduced initiatives to demonize Israel once again in the court of world opinion. One effort, disingenuously named “UCSD Divest for Peace,” was aimed at divesting university funds from U.S. companies which benefit Israel and which take a “non-neutral financial stance in the occupation of Palestinian territories.”  The Berkeley initiative, endorsed by 41 student groups in March 2010 and cynically named “A Bill In Support of UC Divestment From [Israeli] War Crimes,” was promoted by a broader anti-Israel effort named the “U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.”

The latest NYU effort, an “Open Letter to TIAA-CREF CEO and President Roger W. Ferguson from NYU Faculty and Staff,” signed by over 70 members of the NYU community, has as its purpose “to pressure TIAA-CREF into divesting its holdings in 5 key companies which profit from the illegal Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinians.” It has at its core the same baseless accusations and libels against Israel, namely, that Caterpillar “sells the bulldozers used by the IDF to destroy Palestinian homes, infrastructure, and fruit and olive trees;” Elbit Systems provides “drones used to kill Palestinian and Lebanese civilians;” Northrop Grumman builds weaponry that “Israel needs to defend itself from crowds of children throwing stones;” Veolia “operates a light-rail system linking Israel’s illegal settlements to Jerusalem;” and Motorola “manufactures surveillance equipment for Israeli checkpoints” [emphasis added].

These companies, it is asserted by SJP, are not only complicit in the slaughter and oppression of the completely innocent Palestinians, but the firms profit, in an immoral and rapacious way, from the suffering caused by their occupation and dispossession. Clearly, there is no historical context to these outrageous claims, no moral balance, no acknowledgement of Israel’s existential threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, and its other genocidal neighbors–only condemnation for being an oppressive, racist, murderous colonial settler state, illegal, in the view of activists, under international law.

This core sentiment has come to define the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; the notion that the repeated defamation of Israel will result in its eventual expulsion from the supposed civilized community of nations. But the call for divestment is merely a tactic through which Israel will be marginalized, and eventually extirpated, as a pariah state with no moral justification for existing. Thus, Students for Justice in Palestine — which gives public expression to notions of “social justice” for everyone in the Middle East but actually means justice for the Palestinians alone, and not to Israelis — admit, when pushed, that the sole underlying purpose of their calls for divestment is not, as is frequently though falsely described, to create a Palestinian state that will exist “side by side with Israel in peace,” but actually as a new entity that will either economically, militarily, or demographically subsume Israel.

The moral benefit to casting the Palestinians as the perennial victims, of course, is that it makes it easy for SJP and other apologists for terror to justify homicidal aggression against Jewish targets as a legitimate means of “resistance” to occupation—a legitimacy they claim as a right under the intellectually-contorted precepts of international law, which has given NGOs, stateless actors, and radical movements the same rights as democracies engaging in self-defense. SJP and others repeatedly use this intellectual ploy to promiscuously demonize Israel, not to mention to justify terrorism as an acceptable tool in the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” screamed SJP demonstrators at an NYU rally held last April.

“Divestment campaigns and requests for institutional divestment,” a University of Wisconsin guide for BDS radicals reveals, “provide debate material that places Palestine solidarity groups in the most favorable position to present their case. No other form of activism has generated as much debate and attention towards the plight of the Palestinians as does divestment. No other approach has presented the Palestinian struggle in a more positive light than does divestment.” Divestment activists, the guide instructs, should insure that “the argument is more directed towards questioning the nature of the exclusively-Jewish nature of Israel and the racist policies that allow the existence of such a project.

“This argument is far more effective and winnable than that of debating specific events and facts.”

But if NYU’s Students for Justice in Palestine insists on pushing a call for divestment while ignoring the actual “events and facts” of the Israeli/Palestinian debate, they can never hope to be successful in creating a viable Palestinian state only through the debasement and eventual extirpation of Israel.

 

Source:  http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/19/the-disingenuity-of-divestment/

Israel Law Center Hotline to Monitor Campus Anti-Semitism

by Joanna Paraszczuk  |  JPost.com  |  October 16, 2011

 

Hotline could provide evidence for legal action against colleges deemed to have failed to protect Jewish students, Law Center attorneys say.

The Israel Law Center (Shurat Hadin) is set to launch a hotline on Monday, to help Jewish college students who are victims of anti-Semitism on their campuses.

According to attorney Kenneth A. Leitner, the Law Center’s director of American affairs, students will be able to call the hotline to report incidents of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel acts on US college campuses, and the Law Center will use the data to take legal action against colleges believed to be breaching Jewish students’ legal rights, he added.

“It is time for us to go on the legal offensive,” said Leitner, who noted that the trend of campus anti-Semitism is growing. “We want Jewish students to know that there is a number to call when they are victimized by extremist groups promoting anti-Israel and anti- Semitic hate on American college campuses.”

US colleges will also receive a “report card” grading them according to their commitment to providing Jewish students with a safe and welcoming learning environment, Leitner said.

As well as monitoring how well US campuses are protecting Jewish students from anti-Semitism, the Law Center intends to use the hotline data to evaluate how colleges are complying with stringent US anti-terror funding laws.

Leitner noted that US colleges have a legal obligation to monitor the funding and activities of all on-campus student groups, and to prevent university funds from being diverted to unlawful activities directed against Israel.

“In a letter we sent to US colleges in September, we cautioned schools to be particularly vigilant in funding student organizations that may have ties to terrorist organizations or that may engage in unlawful activity abroad,” he added.

By failing to to do so, the Law Center has warned that universities could unwittingly fall foul of stringent US legislation.

The US Supreme Court, in a recent ruling in the Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project case, held that providing any support to a terrorist organization, even for supposed humanitarian purposes, was sufficient to impose criminal liability.

Further, permitting organizations like the International Solidarity Movement to recruit students on US campuses to take part in campaigns in Gaza and the West Bank could also potentially violate US law, the Law Center has warned.

Leitner added that radical anti-Israel groups like the ISM and Students for Justice in Palestine already have a stronghold on US campuses, and noted that the Law Center is investigating what it believes to be a connection between anti-Israel activists, organizations and activities in the US and Middle Eastern terrorism.

“An immediate, effective legal response is likely to have a deterrent effect on harassment, discrimination, and potentially on terrorism [on college campuses],” Leitner concluded.

“We would like Americancollege campuses to be safe and secure for Jewish students, without distraction, intolerance, antagonism and most importantly, violence. We expect that the schools share our goals – and if not, we will legally compel them to.”

Students in the US can call the Israel Law Center Campus Hotline on (718) 907-9258. 

 

Source:  http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=241931

Shariah Compliant Banks - Is YOUR Bank Supporting The Shariah?

From ShariahFinanceWatch.org  |  List as of February 14, 2011

Alpha Natural ResourcesAsset Acceptance Capital Corporation

Aviva Plc

AXA

Barclays PLC

BNP Paribas Group

Citibank, N.A.

Credit Agricole, S.A.

Deutsche Bank AG

Dow Jones & Company Inc.

Equity Insurance Group Limited

Goldman Sachs Group

HBOS plc

HSBC Holdings plc

INVESCO Perpetual

Julius Baer Group

Maersk Logistics

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Morgan Stanley

NYSE Euronext

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Singapore Power

 

Central Bank

* Bank Negara Malaysia (The central bank of Malaysia)

 

Universal Bank

Lists of banks in Malaysia

• CIMB Group (CIMB Bank + CIMB Investment Bank + CIMB Islamic Bank)

Anchor Banks (Major / Commercial banks) (full list)

• Affin Bank Berhad
• Alliance Bank Berhad
• AmBank Berhad
• CIMB Bank Berhad
• EON Bank Berhad
• Hong Leong Bank Berhad
• Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank)
• Public Bank Berhad
• RHB Bank Berhad

Foreign-owned banks (commercial only) (full list)

• ABN AMRO Bank (M) Berhad
• Bangkok Bank (M) Berhad
• Bank of America (M) Berhad
• Bank of China (M) Berhad
• Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (M) Berhad
• Citibank(M) Berhad
• Deutsche Bank (M) Berhad
• HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad
• Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (M) Berhad (OCBC Bank)
• The Standard Chartered Bank (M) Berhad (StanChart)
• The Bank of Nova Scotia (M) Berhad (Scotiabank)
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.Bank (M) Berhad
• United Overseas Bank Bank (M) Berhad (UOB Bank)

Offshore Banks & Branches in Labuan (full List)

• ABN AMNRO NV (Labuan Branch)
• Affin Bank Berhad
• Al-Hidayah Investment Bank (Labuan) Ltd (Labuan Branch)
• Aminternational (Labuan) Ltd (Labuan Branch)
• AmMerchant Bank Berhad
• Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad, (Labuan Offshore Branch)
• Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad, (Labuan Offshore Branch)
• Bank of America National Association Berhad, (Labuan Branch)
• The Bank of East Asia Ltd (BEA) (Labuan Branch)
• The Bank of Nova Scotia (Labuan Branch)
• The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Limited (Labuan Branch)
• Barclays Bank PLC (Labuan Branch)
• BNP Paribas (Labuan Branch)
• Calyon (Labuan Branch)
• Capital Investment Bank Limited (Labuan)
• Cathay United Bank (Labuan)
• CIMB Bank (L) Limited
• CIMB (L) Limited (Labuan)
• Citibank Malaysia (L) Limited (Labuan)
• City Credit Investment Bank Limited (Labuan)
• Commercial IBT (Labuan Branch)
• Credit Suisse (Labuan Branch)
• DBS Bank Limited (Labuan Branch)
• Deutsche Bank AG (Labuan Branch)
• Dresdner Bank AG (Labuan Branch)
• ECM Libra Investment Bank Limited (Labuan)
• The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited Offshore Banking Unit (Labuan)
• ING Bank NV (Labuan Branch)
• The International Commercial Bank of China (Labuan Branch)
• J.P. Morgan Malaysia Ltd (Labuan)
• J.P. Morgan Chase Bank National Association (Labuan Branch)
• KBC Bank NV (Labuan Branch)
• Kuwait Finance House Labuan Berhad (Labuan Branch)
• Lloyds TSB Bank PLC (Labuan Branch)
• Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd (Labuan Branch)
• Macquarie Bank Limited (Labuan Branch)
• Maybank International (L) Ltd (Labuan Branch)
• Morgan Stanley Labuan Investment Bank Limited (Labuan Branch)
• Natexis Banques Populaires (Labuan Branch)
• OSK Investment Bank (Labuan) Limited (Labuan)
• OCBC Limited (Labuan Branch)
• Public Bank (L) Limited (Labuan)
• Rabobank Nederland (Labuan Branch)
• RHB Bank (L) Ltd (Labuan)
• The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC (Labuan Branch)
• RUSD Investment Bank Inc (Labuan)
• Schroders Malaysia (L) Berhad (Labuan)
• Societe Generale (Labuan Branch)
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Labuan Branch)
• UBS AG (Labuan Branch)
• United Overseas Bank Limited (Labuan Branch)

Investment banks (full list)

• Affin Investment Bank Berhad
• Alliance Investment Bank Berhad
• AmInvestment Bank Berhad
• Asian & Euro-American Merchant Bankers (Malaysia) Berhad (Aseambankers)
• CIMB Investment Bank Berhad
• Ecmlibra investment Bank Berhad
• Hwang-DBS Investment Bank Berhad
• KAF Investment Bank Berhad
• Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad (formally K&N Kenanga Berhad)
• MIDF Investment Bank Berhad
• MIMB Investment Bank Berhad
• OSK Investment Bank Berhad
• Public Investment Bank Berhad
• RHB Investment Bank Berhad
• Southern Investment Bank Berhad

Islamic banks (full list)

• Asian Finance Bank (M) Berhad
• Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad
• Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad
• Hong Leong Islamic Banking Berhad
• CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad
• RHB Islamic Bank Berhad
• AmIslamic Bank Berhad
• Affin Islamic Bank Berhad
• Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad
• EONCAP Islamic Bank Berhad
• Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad
• Maybank Islamic Berhad

Development Financial Institutions (Government-owned banks) (full list)

• Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad (Bank Rakyat)
• Bank Simpanan Nasional Berhad
• Bank Pertanian Malaysia Berhad
• Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad (Exim Bank)
• Bank Perusahaan Kecil & Sederhana Berhad ((Small Medium Enterprise) SME Bank Berhad)
• Sabah Development Bank Berhad (SDB)
• Sabah Credit Corporation Berhad
• Lembaga Tabung Haji
• Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad (CGC)
• Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad (MIDF)
• Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) (The development bank of Malaysia)

• United States
  HSBC Amanah
  HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
  452 Fifth Avenue, Tower 25
  New York, NY 10018
  Tel: (1 212) 525 8142
  Fax: (1 212) 525 8143
  

  Catharine Furrer-Lech   
  Chair UBS Islamic Finance Committee   
  [email protected]

  Citi Islamic Investment Bank

  https://www1.citibank.com/ciib/homepage/contacus/form.htm

  EDS CREDIT SERVICES
  [email protected]   

  AL BARAKA BANCORP
  [email protected]

  AMERICAN ASSETS INC.
  [email protected]

  AMEEN HOUSING CO-OPERATIVE OF CALIFORNIA
  [email protected]

  HOMES & LOANS REALTY
  [email protected]

  BEAM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
  [email protected]

  CRESCENT CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, INC.
  [email protected]   

  MATRIX MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC.
  [email protected]   

  SATURNA CAPITAL CORPORATION
  [email protected]   

  WAFRA INVESTMENT ADVISORY GROUP
  [email protected]   

  WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT
  [email protected]   

  ARAB BANKING CORPORATION (USA)
  [email protected]   

  GUIDANCE FINANCIAL GROUP
  [email protected]   

  UNIVERSITY ISLAMIC FINANCIAL
  [email protected]   

  FAILAKA ADVISORS LLC
  [email protected]   

  SHARIAH CAPITAL
  [email protected]   

  ANCHOR FINANCE GROUP LLC
  [email protected]   

  CALYX FINANCIAL
  [email protected]   

  ISLAMIC FINANCE PROJECT – HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
  [email protected]   

  SUNRISE EQUITY
  [email protected]   

  ABANA-ARAB BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA
  [email protected]   

Source:   http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/shariah-compliant-banks/