Friday, 08 August 2008

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The implications of sharia finance in the UK

The huge spread of sharia finance should cause us the greatest possible concern. It is seen as relatively untroublesome way of reaching out to Muslims while making some people a very great deal of money. So everyone is happy? This couldn’t be further from truth. It fails to understand that this country doesn’t just face Islamic terrorism but an attempt to colonise Britain for Islam through the spread of sharia and the most extreme interpretation of Islam.

 
Islamic finance and the banker of the poor

ImageIn1982 Islamic financial institutions already owned a capital that at present has enormously increased reaching more than 300 billions $, due to the profit coming from oil, with a yearly growth rate, higher than 15%: a huge liquidity which can hold the balance in global economy.

 
Italy pares down and swerves right

ImageThe two remaining Communist Parties, plus the Greens, wiped out from Italy's Parliament. An Open letter to: Economist, Newsweek, le Monde, El Pais the press unfit to judge Italy

 
Da ne zaboravimo Sarajevo - Not to forget Sarajevo

ImageAhmed Imamovic, 35, from Bosnia, received the European Academy Award for the short film "Deset Minuta" ("Ten Minutes"). It's not, by the way, an artistic fiction, but a true portrait of the war in Sarajevo during the serbian aggression in the Nineties. Many of us can just have forgot, and even more wish not to be involved

 
Nostalgia for whorehouses

ImageFifty years ago, February 1958, the Merlin bill was passed and, even if it had the laudable aim to free whores from an ancient joke, in reality it threw them in the greedy hands of panders, while the Italians were compelled "to manage it on their own", as a famous Totò’s film synthesized