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Hamas mandates zakat in Gaza
This Ramadan, Hamas is joining the ranks of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Sudan in making zakat compulsory on people and businesses in Gaza. The Koran mandates that zakat, the two and one-half percent...
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Aurangzeb: How to tax, oppress, and humiliate
A history lesson comes to us from the Bikaner Museum’s exhibit on Aurangzeb, the Muslim emperor who ruled over India and forced the Koran-based jizya tax upon Hindu subjects: Aurangzeb, as he was...
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Seven ways to stop funding terror
Money Jihad has previously proposed methods to limit zakat and hawala—two major mechanisms for funding terror. Here’s a more comprehensive set of our recommendations that would reduce terrorist...
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Copts threatened again with jizya
The imposition of the jizya tax against non-Muslims is frequently threatened and often enforced in the Islamic world. Just ask the Sikhs of Pakistan, the Jews of Yemen, the Christians of Iraq, the...
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Power to tax granted to MILF
The government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have reached the framework for greater Muslim control over the southern Philippines. The framework grants the MILF the...
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RadicalIslam.org interviews Money Jihad
Ryan Mauro recently conducted an interview with Money Jihad which was published yesterday at RadicalIslam.org—a leading news site about the treat posed by Islamic fundamentalism. We covered a wide...
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Muslim Brotherhood offshoot pushes zakat at UN
The International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood that was once under federal investigation in connection with terrorist financing, has sponsored a recent...
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Afghan mining deal could fund terror
Taliban may tax supply routes A business deal for copper mining rights at Aynak in Afghanistan by a Chinese consortium poses the risk of inadvertently funding local conflict and increasing the...
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Sharia tax law: conversion through payola
Supporters of zakat, the Islamic tax on wealth, mislead people into believing that that zakat helps the poor. The truth is that poor Muslims are one category of eligible recipients of zakat, but...
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Funding of terrorist groups compared
In a paper describing misconceptions about terrorist financing, W. A. Tupman of the University of Exeter includes a helpful typology of a variety of terrorist groups and how they are generally funded....
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Wednesday word: revolutionary tax
The “revolutionary tax” is a fundraising method normally associated with Marxist movements and ideology-based terrorism. One dictionary defines a revolutionary tax, or impuesto revolucionario, as an...
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The Taliban’s jihad tax
Traditional terror finance analysis has regarded “revolutionary taxation” imposed on businesses and capitalists as a tactic of urban guerrillas such as Basque separatists, and demands for protection...
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Banker supports taxes for jihad
The former chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh, Limited (IBBL), Shah Abdul Hannan, explained his support for collecting taxes beyond zakat for the purposes of waging jihad in an article posted online...
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Egypt: Islamists levy jizya against Copts
And what do they do with the proceeds? Buy weapons to wage further assaults against non-Muslims, the military, and moderate Muslims. Excerpts from a recent article in The Times of London follow:...
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Syrian rebel fatwa: seize non-Sunni property
Unless they convert to Sunni Islam, the property of Syrian Christians and Shia Muslims should be confiscated. So say the muftis in Syria who issued a fatwa on the subject. They also instructed Sunnis...
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Taliban force businessmen to support jihad
Even after formally being out of power for a dozen years, the Taliban has been able to sustain diversified and balanced revenue streams from a wider span of sources than nearly any other terrorist...
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Muslim Brotherhood fills coffers with jizya from 80 Coptic families
Muslim Brotherhood gangsters have demanded from 3,000 to 15,000 USD apiece from 80 Coptic Christian households in Malawi, Egypt, according to a recent broadcast on CTV. The report doesn’t specify how...
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ISIS taxing each long-haul trucker $800
Taxes make up increasing share of ISIS’s wealth Trucks passing through Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) checkpoints on highways out of Iraq are being charged a tax of up to $800 per truck....
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Clandestine money news: recommended reading
Qatar is arming the revolutionary Islamist militia known as “Libya Dawn”… more>> The international watchdog Financial Action Task Force finds that soccer and money laundering are a perfect match...
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Update: the world’s 10 richest terror groups
Graphic by Israel National News A new ranking of the best funded terrorist organizations has been published by Forbes Israel. The Islamic State of Iraq comes in first with a reported net worth of $2...
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