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Yerushalmi concludes that “whatever AIG is doing, it is effectively acting on behalf of the U.S. government. If a private entity is really controlled by or acting in the place of government, that entity must abide by the protections in the U.S. Constitution against government violations of our civil liberties.”487 Including the First Amendment.
Yet AIG, Yerushalmi argues, “intentionally promotes Sharia-compliant businesses and insurance products, which by necessity must comply with the 1200-year-old body of Islamic law based on the Qur’an and other Islamic canon, which demands the conversion, subjugation, or destruction of the infidel West, including the United States.488
“To help achieve these objectives,” he continues, “and with the aid of federal tax dollars, AIG employs a three-person Shariah Advisory Board, with members from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Pakistan.”489
AIG says that the role of its Shariah authority “is to review operations, supervise its development of Islamic products, and determine Shariah compliance of these products and investments.”490
That combination violates the First Amendment.
An even more outrageous violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment is unfolding in Minnesota, where the state is sponsoring a Shariah-compliant program to help Muslims buy homes without violating their religious prohibition against paying interest.
Under the program, the state buys a home and resells it to a Muslim home buyer. The down payment and monthly installments on the mortgage are agreed to up front at current mortgage rates. This arrangement permits the Muslim family to avoid paying interest. The state pays the interest; the family simply reimburses it, thus avoiding the religious proscription.491
Imagine a program for observant Orthodox Jews where the state would send in workers to turn on lights for them during the Sabbath! Or to drive them around for free so they don’t have to operate a motor vehicle on Saturday. That’s exactly what this Minnesota program amounts to.
What business does a state have to jump through such hoops to help members of a specific religion to purchase homes? If anything violates the wall of separation between church and state, this is it! We are grateful to www.jihadwatch.org for bringing this crazy law to public attention.
If courts are going to bar schools or government buildings from posting the Ten Commandments on their walls, they must also bar Shariah compliance by banks or financial institutions that are dominated by the federal government.
We all need to support the Center for Security Policy in its work to block Shariah from fighting our values through our top banks and insurance companies. If it can prevail in the AIG suit, it will win a test case that will fully reverse the Islamic offensive. The center is financed by public contributions in its work to protect our Constitution, secular government, and Western values. You can find it at http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml.
Oh, and by the way, the governor of Minnesota is Tim Pawlenty. He is a Republican who was on the short list for vice president in 2008. These days, he’s often mentioned as a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Why don’t you drop him an e-mail and let him know what you think of Minnesota’s Shariah-compliant mortgage program? His e-mail address is tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us.
He’ll love hearing from you.
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HOW BILL CLINTON GOOFED…COSTING YOU $60 BILLION
Which administration do you think gave away more money to Big Oil? Bush 43 or Clinton?
Bet you guessed wrong.
Because no matter how much George W. Bush and Dick Cheney worked overtime to figure out ways to funnel money to their oil company buddies, the Clinton administration—through sheer and incomprehensible incompetence—gave them more!
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