Category Archives: Shari’a finance

A Secular Market Nightmare

The growing foothold of Shari’a finance By Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine | May 9, 2008 The global sub-prime mortgage mess would have been “unthinkable in the Islamic capital markets sector,” Malaysian Islamic finance scholar Mohammed Mahmud Awan told Arab News … Continue reading

America for Sale

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Human Events | April 1, 2008 As the U.S. and Western markets plummet and the U.S. dollar continues its free fall, sovereign wealth funds (SWF) gobble up prime financial institutions, industries and real … Continue reading

U.S. Rewarding Arab Terrorism

by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine | March 24, 2008 The Bush Administration’s search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen‘s “blind man in a dark room looking for … Continue reading

U.S. Rewarding Arab Terrorism

by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen NATIV | March 22, 2008 The Bush Administration’s search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for … Continue reading

Burning the candle at both ends

By Rachel Ehrenfeld & Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Times | March 22, 2008 With the U.S. economy “obviously going through a tough time,” America should welcome capital investments even from foreign sovereign wealth funds, President George W. Bush asserted on … Continue reading

Affirming the West

By Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, February 18, 2008 Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism by Ibn Warraq (Prometheus, 2007), 555 pages. For the last quarter century, many political leaders and candidates have been overly swayed … Continue reading