Kagan
Promoted Shariah
By DICK MORRIS
Published on
TheHill.com on July 20, 2010
Having worked with Elena Kagan at the Clinton White House, Dick was
inclined to see her as a political moderate, worthy of support as
the best one could expect from the Obama White House. But no more.
Thanks to the work of the Center for Security Policy Director Frank
Gaffney and the writing of Andrew McCarthy of the National Review
Institute, there has emerged a compelling reason to vote against
Kagan's confirmation as a Supreme Court justice: her support for
Shariah law while she was dean of Harvard Law School.
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Islamists are seeking to spread Shariah law by inducing American and
European financial institutions to establish Shariah
Compliant Funds in which their clients can invest. Exposed
in our books Fleeced and Outrage, these funds follow the
prescriptions of Shariah law in their investments. They
routinely collect 2.5 percent of the principal of any
investment annually for donation to charitable institutions,
fine recipients of their investment 7 percent for
transgressions of Shariah law (and donate the fine to
charity), and only invest in projects compliant with the
rules of Shariah.
Unfortunately, the decisions as to which investments are
compliant and which charities receive their benefice are
made by Shariah Compliance Boards appointed by the financial
institutions that typically include radical Muslim
extremists who routinely designate terrorist-linked entities
to receive their charitable donations, and they also
proscribe investment in any firm engaged in U.S. defense
contracting on the ground that the contract could aid
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Most major banks in the U.S. and Europe have
established Shariah Compliant Funds, and they had almost $1 trillion
under management by 2007 -- and likely more today.
At Harvard, Elena Kagan "proceeded to forge the law schools'
'Islamic Finance Project.' " Its purpose, according to McCarthy, was
"to promote Shariah compliance in the U.S. financial sector."
Indeed, when Harvard's president, Larry Summers -- now in the Obama
administration -- accepted a $20 million donation for the creation
of a program of studies of Islam's history and Shariah law, Kagan
raised no objection. The donation came from Saudi Prince Alwaleed
bin Talal, a billionaire investor whose contribution of $10 million
to the Twin Towers fund was refused by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
because bin Talal had blamed the 9/11 attack on American foreign
policy.
Harvard Law School now has three Saudi-funded institutions devoted
to the study of Shariah.
Kagan, as a Supreme Court justice, will be required to rule
frequently on possible applications of Shariah law in the United
States. She has already noted that she welcomes "good ideas wherever
they originate" and is open to applications of foreign law to the
interpretation of U.S. statutes and common law. In fact, a lawsuit
seeking to ban Shariah Compliance Funds in banks that accepted TARP
money (as violating the First Amendment separation of church and
state) is now making its way up to the Supreme Court. Kagan cannot
be trusted to rule dispassionately on this case, nor can we rely on
her to exclude Shariah law from American jurisprudence.
For this reason -- if for no other -- senators should vote no on her
confirmation.
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