The Silent Jihad Against the West

Anyone that cares to learn about what is going on in the world is familiar with active jihad, the "holy war", conducted with terrorism and directed at the modern world in general and Western Civilization more specifically. But there is also another form of jihad that is part of the deliberate effort to have Islam replace all concepts of morality and the values held dear by the rest of us. The name of this silent "fifth column" effort is "Sharia Banking". Unfortunately, Sharia Banking is increasingly accepted by Western banking institutions without any real understanding of what the Muslim goal is and what is at stake in the efforts by these institutions to attract more business, profits and money to bail them out of financial messes they brought upon themselves.

Islamic Sharia banking is coming to the United States and other Western nations, thanks to global banks such as Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Great Britain is now pledging to become the Islamic banking center of the world. Clearly the headlong rush by all global banks to enter the world of Islamic banking is well underway. Why do Western banks seek to participate in Sharia banking; because it gives them a chance to enter the Islamic banking industry which has over $1.5 trillion available today and is growing at a steady and explosive rate of over 15% per year.

The implications for the west, and especially for the United States, are staggeringly destructive. Islamic banking working through global banks is doing for Islam what it could never do on its own: giving legitimacy to Sharia law and infiltrating it into the fabric of Western society.

I don’t think the problem is sharia banking, as such. In the current situation, do we have much choice?

The problem is getting head over heels into debt with the oil producing countries and China. And that is a mistake we have been making for years, although it has astronomically worsened under both clinton and Bush.

Meantime, American and European energy policies have been steadily going backwards, worsening the situation with every passing year. And there are no signs that any of our current crop of politicians intends to do a damned thing about it.

Unkike Dr. Gioia himself, liberal democracies are quite defenseless against Islams disciplined approach to world domination. ‘Going along to get along’ is fatal. Sharia banking is, indeed, the most powerful tool the Islamists have in their quiver. The very weaknesses creating our own self-inflicted financial and cultural demise are recognized by our opponents as an open door for the advance of their desires.

The US State departments’ (I will bring it up once more) recent announcement of eschewing officially the terms ‘jihad, jihadist, muhahadeen, islamofascist, etc., is a pseudo-effective policy...the immediate compliance by the House panel on Darfur on C Span 2 was pathetic...all parties on the panel, including those giving testimonials, avoided these terms to a man (Negroponte, Mendez, Boxer, the US rep to Darfur)...the term substituted for all these terms was..’BAD ACTORS’...pathetic. The threat of Sharia banking and other Sharia law principles will not (??..maybe the Brits are waking up as evidenced by ‘Red’ Kens London mayoral dismissal) be defended against by our culture, our govt., or even by the populaces of the West as they are now too ignorant, uneducated to perceive what conscious individuals such as Dr. Gioia percecive and take the trouble to warn about. The man has a blog, and only 5900 readers...he deserves millions more as do a few other perceptive authors. The blog: http://www.vincentgioia.com/

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