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Peaceful Muslims call for Beheadings and Danish Boycott

hat tip-Andrew B. From this story without comment,  “Members of an organization called the Muslim Group of Peace demonstrated peacefully outside the Bangkok embassy for about two hours and called on...

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Conference To Give Update On Development Of Islamic Finance

By D. Arul Rajoo   BANGKOK, June 13 (Bernama) — The Second Thailand Islamic Finance Conference, which will be held here on June 26, will give an update on the worldwide development of Islamic finance,...

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Thailand want to Increase the hours of Islam being taught in the schools

http://www.staugustine.com/images/100503/th7.jpg   POST REPORTERS <!– <!– –> The government will increase tuition on Islamic studies in public schools in the southern border provinces under a...

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Shariah Law 101-State official beheaded in the South of Thailand, where...

State official beheaded in Thai Muslim south YALA, Thailand (Reuters) – Separatist militants shot dead and beheaded a Buddhist state official in Thailand’s Muslim south on Tuesday, police said, the...

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Bloomberg reports on Thailands first Islamic bonds that will tap into Arab...

Thailand Plans First Islamic Bonds to Tap Arab Wealth (Update1) By Suttinee Yuvejwattanawww.geocities.com   Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Thailand plans to raise $600 million from its first sale of Islamic...

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Another shallow fluff piece on Shariah-Compliant Finance

Ace financial journalist Patrick Winn is shilling for Shariah. This time the victim is not the West, but the Orient, namely Thailand, which, by the way, has been enduring a nasty Jihadist insurgency...

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Shariah-Compliant Finance spreads to Thailand (and the fraud has already begun)

FTSE and the Stock Exchange of Thailand have added a Shariah index to the exchange’s benchmarks. This is most unfortunate and is illustrative of the spread of Shariah worldwide. This is especially...

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Shariah Index for Thai stock market

Earlier this week we reported on the new Shariah-compliant Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) introduced here in the US.  Now we are greeted with the news that a Shariah index has been established in the Thai...

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Malaysia Willing to Help Thailand Set Up An Islamic Bank

Malaysia continues in its role as the epicenter of Shariah finance in Asia. As if Thailand doesn’t have enough to worry about from Al Qaeda-inspired and affiliated insurgents, now the financial...

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Thailand plans Sukuk debut

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission expects to finalize rules for Sukuk instruments (Islamic bonds) some time over the next several months, the local English daily Bangkok Post reported on...

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Thailand Close to Debut Sukuk Issue

Shariah continues to gain a financial foothold in Thailand…Sukuk to make debut despite shabby global track record… http://www.cibafi.org/newscenter/english/Details.aspx?Id=6489&Cat=0

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Moody’s: Sukuk To Spread to Japan, Korea and Thailand

The potential emergence of sukuk issuances from such new jurisdictions, including new markets in Asia, notably Japan, Korea and Thailand and Europe, most likely the UK, would be a key driver of...

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Sukuk “Alert”

Official and private entities in Jordan, Indonesia, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, Luxembourg, Sudan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Thailand, Islamic Development Bank and...

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Thailand nears sukuk issue

The way appears to have been cleared for the issuance of a sukuk in Thailand with only one more major hurdle to clear in the next few months. This is when tax regulations are finally put into place...

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Financial Jihadists Target Thailand

The Shariah-Compliant Finance industry is interested in tapping Middle Eastern oil money to help fund Thai infrastructure projects, which could help it gain a foothold in a market with only a small...

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State-Run Thai Islamic Bank to Issue Sukuk

A state-run Islamic bank in Thailand will soon issue an Islamic bond (sukuk). There are obviously a few aspects of this worthy of commentary: • Islamization has progressed enough in Thailand at this...

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Thai Jihadist Bombers Get Big Payout

H/T Money Jihad blog Back on 31 March, Jihadist terrorists launched a coordinated bomb blitz in southern Thailand in a major escalation of the ongoing Islamic insurgency there:...

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Enviro investment movement goes Shariah-compliant

The Green movement is going Shariah… What we do not understand from the passage below is how perfume manufacturing can possibly be Shariah-compliant. Nevertheless, it does seem that the environmental...

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