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Major US City Poised to Implement Islamic Law -Mayor Warned to Stop ‘Kowtowing’ with New Muslim-Only Rules
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray “wants to help Muslims” attain home ownership by offering Shariah-compliant loans.
by Leo Hohmann
While some cities in Texas and other Southern states have been adopting ordinances that protect their citizenry from creeping Shariah-compliant practices, cities such as Seattle are taking the opposite approach.
Seattle’s Democrat Mayor Ed Murray was so concerned that Muslims and other residents weren’t buying enough homes in his city that he had a committee investigate how that could be rectified.
One of the committee’s recommendations: Banks need to offer “Shariah-compliant” mortgage loans for Seattle’s growing Muslim community.
Muslims are forbidden by their religious law, Shariah, from paying interest on loans so they must be offered loans structured in such a way that interest is not part of the package.
The 28-member committee recommended the city convene lenders and community leaders to explore options for increasing access to Shariah-compliant loans, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported.
“We will work to develop new tools for Muslims who are prevented from using conventional mortgage products due to their religious beliefs,” said Murray, at a recent press conference.
“More and more lenders are offering Shariah-compliant financing, according to a USA Today report,” the Journal reports. “The sector has grown to more than $1.6 trillion in assets worldwide over the past three decades, and analysts see potential for continued growth as the number of Muslims in the United States and Europe grows.”
The Obama administration, with the full support of Congress, is following an immigration policy that allows at least 100,000 Muslims into the country every year, according to U.S. Census data.
So financial-service companies see that as a business opportunity.
But those who see Shariah law as anti-Western and anti-American see the trend differently than banks and corporations.
“Such dangerously misguided efforts kowtow to, and abet, Islamic supremacism,” said Dr. Andrew Bostom, author of “Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims” and several other books about the history of Islam.
In his 1947 book, “The Economic Problem of Man and its Islamic Solution,” the great 20th century Islamic revivalist thinker Mawdudi conceived of the notion of Shariah-compliant finance as an innovative way to enforce the global supremacy of Islam and Islamic law, Bostom said.
“Mawdudi, who died in 1979, affirmed that the entire economic system had a ‘deep relationship with the political, judicial, legal, cultural and social system of Islam,’” Bostom said. “He further claimed, ‘all these are fundamentally based on the moral system of Islam.’”
Shariah thus applies the tenants of Islam to every area of life, not just religious life.
“Mawdudi concluded with an admonition that demanded Muslim acceptance, and global application of ‘this creed (Islam), this moral system and the whole of this code of life, completely as it is,’ because, he added, ‘the economic system of Islam, divorced from its source, cannot be maintained or administered in its purity for even a single day, nor will any appreciable advantage accrue from it if you take it out of its wider context and then seek to apply [it] to your life.’
“Shariah-compliant mortgages, and all aspects of so-called Shariah-compliant finance, should be rejected because they are vehicles for the promulgation of Islamic law, an integrated religio-political system antithetical to our most fundamental Western freedoms,” Bostom said.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/major-u-s-city-poised-to-implement-islamic-law/
If they are able to obtain interest free loans then they had better extend the same courtesy to American citizens. We have paid or fair share and some over and above on these unfair high interest and fraudulent finance charges and now they want to extend interest free loans without so much as offering natural born citizens a refund. I don’t think so if the citizens of Seattle stand for this then they need a head check. No way this should happen. They used us to make this country what it is and then they give the perks to someone else! i am insulted and disgusted with this game of inequality that has now been thrust upon us. The rules either apply to all or not at all and should not show consideration to a particular group or favor to another. This is the ultimate slap in the face.
Well said.
Non Muslimes are all BAD CREDIT RISKS because they’re always losing their heads..
Interest free mortgages? Guess I’m muslim now. Allahu Akbar!
“Muslims are forbidden by their religious law, Shariah, from paying interest on loans”
The same goes for Christians,religion does not allow to make profit out of loans.That’s why since medieval times in Europe the Christians didn’t loan money because it didn’t pay,they left it to the Jews,whose religion allows it.
Wish I had a link but listen to the 1st segment of last nights coast to coast program. Basically, the loans will be set up to include the interest rates in the payments in a way that is in accordance with Sharia law. I wish I could explain it but the guest on coast to coast did and it actually makes sense. They will still be paying interest. If they weren’t, all these banks and mortgage companies would sink pretty fast. At the same time, this “creeping” in of Sharia stuff bothers me. Wish those followers who aren’t radical, want to live in peace and accept others for who they are would stand up and join the fight against the violent ones. Maybe they are and I just don’t know about it. Goes for any belief system, even Atheism. Live and let live please.
Good point,Uriel.
As for the last part of your comment: I assure you that the majority of Muslims are just as peaceloving as you and me,the MSM show the radicals in order to incite us to fight each other.
Don’t want to pay interest Mr. Muslim ? Pay cash or go back to the sh!t hole you came from…
Nutcase liberals vote for their nutcase leaders and they get a nutcase culture for doing so, Send all of the Muslims to Seattle.
Muslims must be a key Seattle demographic therefore worth of special pork, once it was the Mormons, then the Jews. Unless you are a member of a ‘sect’ or the right sect, you do not get tax exempt status or special attention as a minority in neoliberal reverse discrimination. I therefore conclude that this measure of legalizing Sharia mortgages, in which the bank or entity loaning the money buys the property and the mortgage buyer simply by installments buys back the property is the least thing being done in the name of multiculturalism, where being a gay, asian transsexual with mental heal problems practically guarantees the Presidency nomination and if you are only now being shocked by what is a tiny change in mortgage rules, you should have been paying attention to your neoliberals running your country for the last 100 years, who made sure Joe average never got a foot on life’s ladder.