Video: Sharia Financing Flies Under American Radar to Fund Terror

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) has written a powerful and instructive article about the dangers of Sharia-compliance banking. "As a vehicle for legitimizing and promoting Sharia throughout the world, Shariah-compliant finance is a phenomenon that is taking the financial world by storm right under the noses of American investors,” West writes.

Enticed by the huge profits to be made from investors from oil-rich countries as well as the Muslim community, financial institutions are eager to make their businesses Sharia-compliant.

But, as West points out, "Sharia finance is not just an innocent form of free-market capitalism. Shariah finance was conceived and is practiced as one of the key instruments of the radical Islamist movement in its struggle against the West.

Coupled with a lack of regulation in America, ignorance is a prime factor in the failure to stem this tide of terror financing. Most Americans simply have no idea to where their money is being funneled. (...)