Why is “Canadian Living” (magazine) promoting Halal credit cards?

Bogs

Why is “Canadian Living” promoting Halal credit cards?
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-is-canadian-living-promoting-halal.html

MasterCard Canada Offers Halal Credit Card
Supporting Jew Baiting 9/11 Truther
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2010/07/mastercard-canada-offers-halal-credit.html

“Canadian Living” goes halal
http://mooseandsquirrel.ca/2010/07/27/08:11/canadian-living-goes-halal/

(When talking about “Islam”, Pat Condell is spot-on)

Why is “Canadian Living” promoting Halal credit cards?
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-is-canadian-living-promoting-halal.html

…”In August’s issue, there is a column dedicated “No Interest” halal credit cards (p. 87). It does not appear yet to be online so here is an excerpt:

The first halal payment card is now available across Canada. While the initial need to design the iFreedom Plus MasterCard came from the Muslim community (under Islamic law, paying interest is not halal, and so is a perceived sin), this prepaid, no interest card is ideal for everyone. Holders load their own money (up to $6,000) onto the card, then spend it when they need to. “A lot of people view this as more stress-free shopping because they’re actually using money they have rather than ringing up their credit card and getting a huge bill,” says Omar Kalair, the president and CEO of UM Financial, which launched the card with MasterCard.

Graphics by Blazin' Cat Fur

Alright hold on a minute – what is the point of this card again? Swiping a card to buy something with money that you already have – hey doesn’t that sound like a debit card???? Or a gift certificate????? Aside from the fact that I do not see what the point of this card is, it begs further investigation.

This card was released in 2009 at Toronto’s “Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference” (a conference which has featured speakers like Zakir Naik, Yusuf Islam, Tariq Ramadan, etc.). In the press release, MasterCard stated that amongst the cards various benefits, “In addition, for every transaction of over $20 billed to the card, one needy child in a developing country will be fed for a day through RS Foundation.“
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=223277589070

Having never heard of the RS Foundation SMW did a bit of research (since if you buy this card promoted in Canadian Living and use it you will be giving money to the RS Foundation). Regular readers will no doubt be shocked (shocked) to learn that the Director of the RS Foundation, Shujaat Wasty is a 9/11 Truther who has written and posted various online articles about the evil Americans and the “alleged” abuse of women in Afghanistan. In his online critique of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 Wasty wrote:

The second criticism was the absence of the most important player in the grand scheme of events: Israel. There is no doubt that the Zionist movement occupies a primary role in the WTC attacks, international anti-American sentiment, terrorism, and plunging the entire world into the chaotic time that we live in. Such a major character being excluded from the movie is simply unfair. http://www.chowk.com/articles/8280

In 2005 Wasty appeared in a panel http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/shujaatspeech.htm at Concordia University where he said the cartoon drawings of Mohammed should not be part of freedom of expression, that Evangelical Christians belong to the “worst form of fudamentlism” and are responsible for a “genocide in North America,” that Islamic governance is the only true form of democracy and where he argued for Shariah based arbitration to be allowed in Canada. Oh and guess what…..according to self-listed credits he works for the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Hmmmmmm. Why is Canadian Living promoting this? Nobody pays me to do this and it took all of 10 minutes for me to find this information.

Article:
ifreedom “Halal-Approved” Mastercard Launched in Canada
http://en.islamtoday.net/artshow-230-3590.htm

Bogs

Why is “Canadian Living” promoting Halal credit cards?
http://squaremilewife.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-is-canadian-living-promoting-halal.html

MasterCard Canada Offers Halal Credit Card
Supporting Jew Baiting 9/11 Truther
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2010/07/mastercard-canada-offers-halal-credit.html

“Canadian Living” goes halal
http://mooseandsquirrel.ca/2010/07/27/08:11/canadian-living-goes-halal/

Sharia Banks get rich while “not charging interest”

The two dirty secrets of Islamic banking, however, are that, like all banks, Sharia banks do charge interest – they just give it another name – and that the clerics supervising the banks have ties to extremist, even terrorist, groups which work towards the Islamization of Europe and world dominance. Helena Christofi, an expert on Sharia banking, explains that Islamic banks extend a type of Islamic “credit,” called murabaha, that shifts risk to the borrower in a manner similar to interest. “An Islamic bank granting murabaha credit to a customer for an automobile, for example, would purchase the automobile for the customer for $15,000 and the customer would owe the bank $20,000 in a year’s time.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73899
Helena Christofi, an expert on Sharia banking…
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1898

More examples of Canadians submitting to the will of Muslims:

Polygamy in Canada is recognized, and if you have 4 wives they can all claim social benefits for themselves and all their children.

Ontario, Canada: Canadian law calls for polygamy to be punished by a prison term, but the Ontario Family Law Act accepts “a marriage that is actually or potentially polygamous, if it was celebrated in a jurisdiction whose system of law recognizes it as valid.”
http://www.danielpipes.org/6022/westerners-welcome-harems

City (Mississauga) wraps up Muslim lifeguard program
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/10135–city-wraps-up-muslim-lifeguard-program

The hypocrisy of Muslim “religious” demands and “Things that Offend Muslims”
http://mooseandsquirrel.ca/2010/04/10/11:25/the-hypocrisy-of-muslim-religious-demands-and-things-that-offend-muslims/