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On Charity

By lex, on August 26th, 2009

Writing in the Middle East Forum, Raymond Ibrahim notes that the Western World will have to remove their cognitive lenses and crack the books before they take “zakat” at face value.

It is one of the five pillars, after all.

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August 26th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Politics and Culture

4 comments to On Charity

  • virgil xenophon
    August 26, 2009 at 8:12 am

    This all goes to show just how much the camel’s nose under the tent the growing acceptance of the use of Sharia law to mete out justice by local Muslim communities by Western judicial systems really is. “Sharia” is at the core of Islam’s command and control and is the lever that is used to begin the domination of a society composed of non-Muslims. We now have “sharia” compliant investment funds traded on the exchanges, as but one example.

  • G-man
    August 26, 2009 at 8:41 am

    If one replaced “muslim” with “Christianity” we all know the howls of protest against the exclusionary (violently so in many cases) character of that religion would be loud, vigorous, and violent in their own right. We unfortunately are in a half-filled sinking lifeboat filled with those who believe that once the sharks are in the boat with us, that they will change their very nature and not see the remainder as chum.

    My Father told me of his stay in the old Hotel Majestic in Saigon. New Years Eve 1966 he returns to his room just after mid-night, and the little hairs stand up on his neck. he draws his 45, enters room, looks under bed, opens closet to find his room maid of last 4 months standing there with grenade and no pin. Slams door, hits floor, boom. No maid, but he’s ok. He told me when I asked why she waited, that sometimes your enemy is your best friend, until the right opportunity presents itself to be your deadliest enemy.

  • ProwlerAMDO
    August 26, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    I’ll pull the trigger and bring up the trite but true Sun-Tzu-ism about knowing yourselves and your enemy. This type of political correctness actively denies us any meaningful knowledge of our enemy even eight years after 9/11, and it can’t do anything to help us know ourselves. I have grave concerns about just how well we’ll fare in this “overseas contingency operation” against “man made disasters” and can’t wait to see the campaign medal design for that now that the Global War on Terror is essentially over. Pink base with more than a few yellow stripes seems fitting.

  • Papa Ray
    August 27, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Every time I read the word “zakat”, I not only think of bombs, weapons and ammo but of all of the ackawi, naan and mutton that the Taliban and other bad guys get or buy with zakat from the rich oil countries in the ME. Of course, that is assuming that the Taliban and al Quada even pay the poor people that they have feeding them every night.

    I’m thinking that the people understand that their payment is in the form of the bad guys letting them live for one more day.

    Papa Ray
    West Texas
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