How Americans Are Funding Terrorism Through 
Sharia Finance

From Sabotage The Movie 

Brannon Howse:  This is very shocking to me, because one of the things that is taught in this document by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, a liberal Lutheran division, they taught the five tenets of Islam, although you and I know there are seven tenets; they leave out two of the seven.  But one of this five they teach is almsgiving or zakat.

Usama Dakdok: As the term “jihad with money” suggests, it’s about making money to pay for jihad.  The violent kind of jihad.  This is the stealth kind, to pay for the violent kind with the stealth kind.  How do they do that?  Well, there are two specific ways in which this is done.  One is through zakat.  The reason there have been impediments to zakat is four of the eight ground under Sharia for making tithing – that is to say that make it a creditable form of tithing – are either directly or indirectly involved in jihad of the violent kind.  For example, jihad itself, or martyrdom operations, or subventions for the families of martyrs.

Brannon Howse:  We had billionaires from Saudi Arabia, men with billions of dollars, come to America – to Wall Street –

Usama Dakdok:  Invest some money –

Brannon Howse:  – big companies –

Usama Dakdok:  – to make profit – make more profit.

Brannon Howse:  Yeah.  And say, “We’ll invest in American companies –”

Usama Dakdok:  Under conditions.

Brannon Howse:  Two conditions.

Male:  Yes.  The condition number one, you cannot use this money to invest it in anything unlawful.

Brannon Howse:  Like alcohol, strip clubs, pornography.

Usama Dakdok:  Porn, yeah, yeah.  So, number one.  Number two, we must give back to Allah.  He continued to bless us; we have to give the zakat, the 2.5 –

Brannon Howse:  2.5 percent.

Usama Dakdok:  Exactly.  So now, Wall Street sign up with them because they needed all this billions of dollars.  They’re greedy.  They care less about where this money is spending.  And the catch only was always 2.5 percent, not to be known where it would be spent, who would receive it.  Because Muslim will tell you, when you do charity, do not let your right hand know what your left hand is giving.  So, if I’m gonna put my hand in my pocket to get $100.00, I say, “Look, I don’t know what it is.”  I’m gonna get it out and give it to you.  I cannot go like that so I can look at it so everybody can see it.  So, I can’t give it to you.  Give in secret.

So, Wall Street said, “That’s between you and yourself.”

Now, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi – this is a man who’s collecting this millions and millions of dollars from all Americans.

    [Audio clip]  [Speaking in Arabic from 0:02:32 through 0:03:49] of Sharia Finance Official overseas talking about killing the Jews.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Sharia Compliance Officer: Throughout history allah has imposed up the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried about by Hitler. By means of all of the things he did to them. Even though they exaggerated this issue. He managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi: To conclude my speech I would like to say that the only thing I hope for is that as my life approaches its end, Allah will give me an opportunity to go to the land of Jihad and resistance, even if in a wheelchair. I will shot allah’s enemies the Jews. And they will throw a bomb at me and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom. Praise be to allah, Lord of the worlds. Allah’s mercy and blessings upon you.

Usama Dakdok:  By the way, he cannot be physically in America; he’s wanted like Bin Laden, like every other Muslim jihadi.

Brannon Howse:  But he collects this 2.5 percent from the American companies.  And by the way, this is not 2.5 percent where the Saudi investors and the billionaires that are Muslims from other countries invest in our country; they don’t give 2.5 percent.  It’s the –

Usama Dakdok:  It’s Wall Street.

Brannon Howse:  – American corporations.

Male:  Whoever takes the money from Wall Street.  If it’s a Bank of America, if it is Wachovia – I don’t care – if it’s AIG, if it’s Coca-Cola, if it is UBS – anybody – you borrow money to build a house or to buy a car or whatever, every time an American people use credit cards or borrow money to do any businesses, Wall Street make profit.  That profit, you take 2.5 percent out of it, go to brother Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who can do whatever he want with it, and most likely he’s using it to help support Hamas _____, Hezbollah, ISIS, Boko Haram, Shabaab –

Brannon Howse:  Jihad.

Usama Dakdok:  The jihad organizations, whatever names they are.

Brannon Howse:  Now, if you want to know if you’re involved in supporting Sharia finance, you might want to go to shariahfinancewatch.org – shariahfinancewatch.org.  It’s a project of the Center for Security Policy.  Here are, on their website, what they say:

As a result of these numerous inquiries, we have carefully compiled a list of financial institutions active in the USA that have some form of tie to Sharia compliant finance.  In some cases, the entire institution is Sharia compliant.  In other cases, the overall institution is not Sharia compliant, but it has a division or subsidiary that is, or it offers a product that is Shari compliant.  In still more cases, some of the entities listed below do not offer financial products at all, but play key roles in enabling Sharia compliant finance in the West.  We went to great lengths to confirm each of the names listed below.  However, there may be institutions we have overlooked.  We encourage readers to contact us with questions, comments, and criticisms.

Brannon Howse:  Let me just read some of them – not all of them, but some of them that are involved in this according to shariahfinancewatch.org.  AIG.

Usama Dakdok:  That’s a big insurance company in New York.  I mean that’s a huge one.

Brannon Howse:  Bank of America, Anchor Finance Group, Barclays, Bloomberg, Beam Capital Management, The BMB Group, Century 21, J.P.  Morgan Chase, CIMB Group, CitiBank, The Coca-Cola Company, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Devon Bank, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young, GE Capital, Goldman Sachs, Guidance Financial, Guidance Residential, Harvard Law School, HSBC, Ideal Ratings, Merrill Lynch & Co., Moody’s Investor Services, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, NASDAQ – the NASDAQ, I guess – Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Shariah Capital, Standard & Poor’s, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS – these are just some of them; I didn’t even read all of them that are supposedly involved in this, according to Shariah Finance Watch.

Usama Dakdok:  And I promise you soon – soon – if the American people do not wake up, here is my prediction for the future.  If the American people do not stand up and stop this by the law, by our Constitution, by any way – because we are literally sponsoring the jihadi worldwide.  If we will not change that, the day is gonna come and the entire Sharia – not Sharia finance – the entire Sharia, Islamic law, will be practiced in this country.  And I am guessing this will be the next 15 years or so.

Brannon Howse:  shariahfinancewatch.org says, “National security and financial risk.  Islamists are attempting to impose Sharia compliant finance on Western institutions to use our own financial strength against us.  The most serious problem with the Sharia compliant finance is that it legitimizes and institutionalizes Sharia law.”

Usama Dakdok:  Exactly.

Brannon Howse:  “And a theopolitical legal doctrine violently opposed to Western values with, one, the $2 trillion petrol dollars annually looking for investment home, blind exuberance is driving financial institutions to adopt Sharia compliant finance without even a minimal baseline for legal compliance.  The willful blindness of and lack of both transparency and due diligence may cause Sharia compliant finance to be the next subprime crisis, but this time with deadly consequences.”

Usama Dakdok:  Sooner or later, they will be have full Sharia Islamic law in this country and in your state, in the entire United States of America.  Which means what?  They will cut off the hand of the thief.  They will stone the adulterers.  They will behead the Christian and the Jews, because that’s exactly the ultimate goal.  That’s what Muslim are aiming to.  It’s not about Sharia finance.  Now we’re supporting them financially, the jihadi.  It’s not about halal food.  It’s about the laws of Allah.  The word of Allah.  The dos and the don’t dos – huh?  – as it is written in the Quran and in the Hadith.

Brannon Howse:  And, of course, the dos and don’ts of the Quran and Hadith include doing what to Christians and Jews?

Usama Dakdok:  Beheading them, killing them.  Get their homes, and land, and money; their wife and their children.

Brannon Howse:  And –

Usama Dakdok:  Or you become a Muslim.  If you become a Muslim, you’re okay.