Could advocacy groups use financial tools to manipulate the US lending market? The group Hizb ut-Tahrir met in Illinois to address a theme 'The Fall of Capitalism and Rise of Islam.'
AIG enjoyed a mega-bailout courtesy of the US taxpayer, but a lawsuit filed in December 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan addresses a peculiar practice in financing. The lawsuit was filed by Kevin Murray who is represented by legal counsel David Yerushalmi and the Thomas More Law Center (Richard Thompson and Robert Muise). The suit posits a constitutional challenge to that portion of the ‘Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008’ (EESA) that appropriated $40 billion in taxpayer money to fund and financially support the federal government's majority ownership interest in AIG, which allegedly engages in Shariah-based Islamic activities.
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