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Islam, allegedly, is the Solution
Islam, allegedly, is the Solution
by Dr. Sami Alrabaa
08 Oct, 2008
Waleed Al Tabtaba’i, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, writes in Al Watan daily (26.9.2008), “Japan and Germany are studying the Shari’a’s economic and financial theories for applying them. In Mexico, the government is introducing sex-segregated public transport means, buses for men and others for women. In Britain, the Ministry of Justice is introducing Shari’s courts. All these countries are not Islamic,
nevertheless, they have realized, willy-nilly, that the only solution to their problems is Islam. The devastating financial problems flooding the USA and the whole world has made it clear that “riba” (usury) is “haram” (sinful) and this what Islam has been preaching for 1400 years.”
Indeed, the German public is increasingly interested in knowing more and more about Islam. However, I am not aware of anybody who has discovered “economic and financial theories” in Shari’a and therefore was proposed for a Nobel Prize. The only “theory”, if you ever could call this a theory, is “Zakat”; meaning Muslims have to give 2.5 of their wealth to the poor, which is voluntary, a kind of donation or alms, and eventually many Muslims do not deliver.
The truth of the matter is the German public is increasingly reading the Koran, in particular those passages that incite violence, hatred, and discrimination against women, to eventually realize why some Muslims are more violent and fanatic than the followers of other religions.
The so-called “Islamic banks” are financial institutions like any other banks, plus a religious trick. They take and receive interests. However, they do not call them “interests”, which is allegedly “riba” (usury) in Islam, they call it “murabaha” (shared profit).
If you want to buy a car on installment in Kuwait, for example, and have your loan financed by The House of Finance of Kuwait (HFK), an “Islamic bank”, you will have to pay an interest rate of up to 8%. The HFK claims that the “money” it charges on the loan is not “interests”, it is simply murabaha, a “profit” on a sell-and-buy transaction.
The Deutsche Bank has discovered in “murabaha” a lucrative business. According to the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW/Mannheim) the Deutsche Bank has attracted over $ 200 billion of investments owned by Arab oil Sheikhs.
Al Tabtaba’i and his “pious” Islamist ilk do not address the essential issue, namely that the majority of oil sheikhs invest their billions of dollars in “usury” banks and not in Muslim countries which are replete with poverty and misery. Instead of investing in Muslim countries and create jobs for the millions of poor Muslims, they invest in Mercedes, BMW, and in the arms industry.
According to Spiegel On-Line (March 26, 2007), the Saudi oil billionaire Mit’eb, the son of the absolute monarch Abdullah, donated millions of dollars to the families of suicide bombers in Palestine and Iraq. He transferred the money over the Deutsche Bank.
Wilhelm Dietl, a former agent of the BND, the German Intelligence Service, said on WDR5 radio (October 5, 2008) all the Arab oil rich countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and Qatar have funded and are still funding Hamas and other Islamist organizations like the Muslim Brothers with millions of dollars. He acted as an arms dealer/middleman and facilitated the sale of arms to these countries. As such he was trusted by his Arab purchasers and confided that an “unstable Middle East is good for the arms industry and for the Arab sheikhs. It would guarantee their existence. A peaceful and democratic Middle East would mean the end for these regimes.”
The Saudi Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Military Affairs, and son of the Crown Prince asked Dietl, “What does the West prefer, us or Hamas and Islamists in power?”
On the other hand, it is “infidels”, like Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Western “infidel” taxpayers who are funding school, hospitals, and other infrastructural projects in Palestine and Afghanistan.
However, the oil-rich sheikhs do invest in two sectors in the Arab world: they invest in first-class hotels and TV channels. The Saudi Al Waleed bin Talal, for instance, financed building the “Four Seasons” hotel in Damascus/Syria. Ziad Ghosn, a journalist with the daily Tischreen, commented, “The Four Seasons is a huge complex with all kinds of luxurious services. The Syrians cannot afford to go there. The guests of the hotel are usually oil-rich Arabs. They come to drink and enjoy themselves with prostitutes. In reality, it is a first class brothel.”
Ghosn’s colleague, Jamal Hamamah, said, “We have now in the Arab world commercial TV channels, predominantly owned by Saudis and Kuwaitis. But they are not channels for free political debates. These channels show most of time soap operas with beautiful women and female singers that stand on the stage half naked. All of this is, or course, attractive to Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula where every kind of entertainment is Haram (sinful). These channels have huge quotas of viewers. This is good for both the investors and political systems in the Arab world.”
Al Tabtaba’i dare not, of course, criticize Mit’eb, Al Waleed Bin Talal, and the other oil-rich sheikhs. He would disappear over night. Instead he is hypocritically advocating that the West is finding in Islam the “solution” to their social and financial problems.
What matters at the end of the day is deeds and not theory. The oil sheikhs and their religious establishment do not practice what they preach.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that applies the Shari’s, (Allah’s Law). And the Al Saud, the absolute rulers of the country, are proud of that. However, the banks in that country which call themselves “Islamic” are in reality banks like all the others across the globe. I lived in that country for six years and I know what I’m talking about.
According to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and all the human rights reports of the US State Department, Saudi Arabia has the highest rates of human trafficking in terms of domestic slaves and prostitutes.
Millions of women from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Philippines are forced to work seven days a week, 24 hours a day, for meager $ 60-70 a month, if they ever get the money. And on top of all that they are sexually abused. Their passports are confiscated by their employers and they are not allowed to leave the country without their employers’ permission. After all that Saudis go the mosque five times a day to pray in hopes that Allah would waive their atrocities. This is daily practice in all the oil-rich Arab countries. This is Islam in these countries on the ground.
In a televised speech, the Saudi Crown Prince Sultan said (April 5, 2008), “We are proud of being Muslims. Morally we are the best and cleanest on earth. We are proud of living in the purest and most sacred place in the world, the birth country of the Prophet Muhammad, the most honorable in the history of mankind.”
Having said all that, and in addition to the fact that the Koran and Hadeeth incite hatred, discrimination against women, and violence against non-Muslims, Arab Muslims in the Persian Gulf and their rulers abuse other people and by the same token they brag that “Islam is the solution”.
Al Tabtaba’i has been a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament for more than15 years, hence he is a law maker. During all that time he has not submitted one single legislation aimed at alleviating the suffering and exploitation of expatriate workers in Kuwait, many of them are also Muslims.
The question is if “Islam is the solution”, why does not he begin applying it in his home country?
In conclusion, Islam is NOT the solution, it is rather a liability in both theory and practice. “Islam is the solution” is hypocrisy and self-deception per excellence.
http://www.islam-watch.org/Sami/Islam-the-Solution.htm
by Dr. Sami Alrabaa
08 Oct, 2008
Waleed Al Tabtaba’i, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, writes in Al Watan daily (26.9.2008), “Japan and Germany are studying the Shari’a’s economic and financial theories for applying them. In Mexico, the government is introducing sex-segregated public transport means, buses for men and others for women. In Britain, the Ministry of Justice is introducing Shari’s courts. All these countries are not Islamic,
nevertheless, they have realized, willy-nilly, that the only solution to their problems is Islam. The devastating financial problems flooding the USA and the whole world has made it clear that “riba” (usury) is “haram” (sinful) and this what Islam has been preaching for 1400 years.”
Indeed, the German public is increasingly interested in knowing more and more about Islam. However, I am not aware of anybody who has discovered “economic and financial theories” in Shari’a and therefore was proposed for a Nobel Prize. The only “theory”, if you ever could call this a theory, is “Zakat”; meaning Muslims have to give 2.5 of their wealth to the poor, which is voluntary, a kind of donation or alms, and eventually many Muslims do not deliver.
The truth of the matter is the German public is increasingly reading the Koran, in particular those passages that incite violence, hatred, and discrimination against women, to eventually realize why some Muslims are more violent and fanatic than the followers of other religions.
The so-called “Islamic banks” are financial institutions like any other banks, plus a religious trick. They take and receive interests. However, they do not call them “interests”, which is allegedly “riba” (usury) in Islam, they call it “murabaha” (shared profit).
If you want to buy a car on installment in Kuwait, for example, and have your loan financed by The House of Finance of Kuwait (HFK), an “Islamic bank”, you will have to pay an interest rate of up to 8%. The HFK claims that the “money” it charges on the loan is not “interests”, it is simply murabaha, a “profit” on a sell-and-buy transaction.
The Deutsche Bank has discovered in “murabaha” a lucrative business. According to the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW/Mannheim) the Deutsche Bank has attracted over $ 200 billion of investments owned by Arab oil Sheikhs.
Al Tabtaba’i and his “pious” Islamist ilk do not address the essential issue, namely that the majority of oil sheikhs invest their billions of dollars in “usury” banks and not in Muslim countries which are replete with poverty and misery. Instead of investing in Muslim countries and create jobs for the millions of poor Muslims, they invest in Mercedes, BMW, and in the arms industry.
According to Spiegel On-Line (March 26, 2007), the Saudi oil billionaire Mit’eb, the son of the absolute monarch Abdullah, donated millions of dollars to the families of suicide bombers in Palestine and Iraq. He transferred the money over the Deutsche Bank.
Wilhelm Dietl, a former agent of the BND, the German Intelligence Service, said on WDR5 radio (October 5, 2008) all the Arab oil rich countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and Qatar have funded and are still funding Hamas and other Islamist organizations like the Muslim Brothers with millions of dollars. He acted as an arms dealer/middleman and facilitated the sale of arms to these countries. As such he was trusted by his Arab purchasers and confided that an “unstable Middle East is good for the arms industry and for the Arab sheikhs. It would guarantee their existence. A peaceful and democratic Middle East would mean the end for these regimes.”
The Saudi Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Military Affairs, and son of the Crown Prince asked Dietl, “What does the West prefer, us or Hamas and Islamists in power?”
On the other hand, it is “infidels”, like Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Western “infidel” taxpayers who are funding school, hospitals, and other infrastructural projects in Palestine and Afghanistan.
However, the oil-rich sheikhs do invest in two sectors in the Arab world: they invest in first-class hotels and TV channels. The Saudi Al Waleed bin Talal, for instance, financed building the “Four Seasons” hotel in Damascus/Syria. Ziad Ghosn, a journalist with the daily Tischreen, commented, “The Four Seasons is a huge complex with all kinds of luxurious services. The Syrians cannot afford to go there. The guests of the hotel are usually oil-rich Arabs. They come to drink and enjoy themselves with prostitutes. In reality, it is a first class brothel.”
Ghosn’s colleague, Jamal Hamamah, said, “We have now in the Arab world commercial TV channels, predominantly owned by Saudis and Kuwaitis. But they are not channels for free political debates. These channels show most of time soap operas with beautiful women and female singers that stand on the stage half naked. All of this is, or course, attractive to Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula where every kind of entertainment is Haram (sinful). These channels have huge quotas of viewers. This is good for both the investors and political systems in the Arab world.”
Al Tabtaba’i dare not, of course, criticize Mit’eb, Al Waleed Bin Talal, and the other oil-rich sheikhs. He would disappear over night. Instead he is hypocritically advocating that the West is finding in Islam the “solution” to their social and financial problems.
What matters at the end of the day is deeds and not theory. The oil sheikhs and their religious establishment do not practice what they preach.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that applies the Shari’s, (Allah’s Law). And the Al Saud, the absolute rulers of the country, are proud of that. However, the banks in that country which call themselves “Islamic” are in reality banks like all the others across the globe. I lived in that country for six years and I know what I’m talking about.
According to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and all the human rights reports of the US State Department, Saudi Arabia has the highest rates of human trafficking in terms of domestic slaves and prostitutes.
Millions of women from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Philippines are forced to work seven days a week, 24 hours a day, for meager $ 60-70 a month, if they ever get the money. And on top of all that they are sexually abused. Their passports are confiscated by their employers and they are not allowed to leave the country without their employers’ permission. After all that Saudis go the mosque five times a day to pray in hopes that Allah would waive their atrocities. This is daily practice in all the oil-rich Arab countries. This is Islam in these countries on the ground.
In a televised speech, the Saudi Crown Prince Sultan said (April 5, 2008), “We are proud of being Muslims. Morally we are the best and cleanest on earth. We are proud of living in the purest and most sacred place in the world, the birth country of the Prophet Muhammad, the most honorable in the history of mankind.”
Having said all that, and in addition to the fact that the Koran and Hadeeth incite hatred, discrimination against women, and violence against non-Muslims, Arab Muslims in the Persian Gulf and their rulers abuse other people and by the same token they brag that “Islam is the solution”.
Al Tabtaba’i has been a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament for more than15 years, hence he is a law maker. During all that time he has not submitted one single legislation aimed at alleviating the suffering and exploitation of expatriate workers in Kuwait, many of them are also Muslims.
The question is if “Islam is the solution”, why does not he begin applying it in his home country?
In conclusion, Islam is NOT the solution, it is rather a liability in both theory and practice. “Islam is the solution” is hypocrisy and self-deception per excellence.
http://www.islam-watch.org/Sami/Islam-the-Solution.htm