Posted on 04/18/2008 6:28:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
Islamofascism: Separate gym hours for Muslim coeds. Calls to prayer. Lectures on Shariah finance. A campus in the Mideast? Nope. It's all happening at America's pre-eminent college.
Recently, the Ivy League school has made special accommodations for the religious needs of Muslim students, including, and rescheduling of exams to observe Islamic holidays.
And this weekend it hosted a $400-per-person conference on Shariah finance led by officials from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The goal of the forum — sponsored by Harvard's Islamic Finance Project — is to "integrate" Islamic finance into the mainstream economy.
That's a tough fit, because Islamic, or Shariah, finance forbids investment in major Western industries, including those that derive substantial income from interest.
Banking and insurance, as well as alcohol, tobacco or pork-related industries, are not considered "halal," or allowable, under Islam. Entertainment is also unlawful.
Shariah-compliant investments are monitored by paid Shariah law advisers who must "purify" certain returns by donating them to Islamic charities — including some that promote jihad and support suicide bombings.
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Its time for Americans to take back America...
People who come to America must adapt...not the other way around...
I’ve long given up on any chance that this nation, let alone western culture will defend itself from islamofasism.
HArvard is not what it once was..
Most all college administrators are easily bought. Arabs are putting up money for Middle Eastern studies (their version, of course) at many US universities. The moral stand, or just a stand for real academic freedom, won’t be taken by the weak characters that head most of our universities.
GM was once the best. Thanks to inept management, it’s struggling to rise from junk bond status. Harvard was once the best. Thanks to inept management and little or no intellectual content, it’ll soon join GM. However, GM has a chance, but methinks Harvard will continue the decent. As for me, I’d hire Harvard physics, EE, or math grads. Hire Harvard law? I want honesty. Hire the libbies? Gimme a break. I need talent, not marshmallow morality.
Those people at Harvard only look at today and tomorrow.....not 10, 20, 30 years from now. Where are all the alumni?
They think by raising monuments to 3000 murdered people on 911 is enough, instead they should be out busting their asses to make sure it NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. By any means.
This IBD article really needs to get some traction. It’s incredible that stuff like this isn’t leading the nightly news. ok, not incredible. But really, wow. I wonder if a similar shariah fund exists at the U of Chicago?
All you Freepers who endlessly boast about your Hummer H2’s and dually F-350’s are helping to make this possible.
The hard thing to swallow is that Harvard sold out, despite its incredible endowment.
Sharia. Coming to the campus your kids will go to.
“All you Freepers who endlessly boast about your Hummer H2’s and dually F-350’s are helping to make this possible.”
And if we did not buy Arab oil, who would? Our good friend China? Or Angola. Cuba? Bolivia?
Oil is fungible.
Oil is not the root of this problem, maybe it used to be, but it’s ideology, faith, and power now.
Maybe they Could get us a Few More Catholic Churches in the Middle East.. we Have 3 parishes For 300,000 Catholics in Kuwait!
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