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Ireland: Becoming a hub for Islamic finance Via thejournal.ie : Ireland is one of many countries which has begun to look at Islamic finance as a way to help rebuild the financial services sector. Already Ireland is a base for 20 per cent of Islamic funds based outside of the Middle East, and the plan is to expand that even further. �To someone like myself who has no particular expertise in the area, Islamic finance looks like a good fit for Ireland,� T�naiste Eamon Gilmore told an audience during a speech last month. (...) However while the government is doing a lot to encourage Islamic finance at an international level, this isn�t filtering down to Ireland�s 49,200 Muslims. Ireland�s two biggest banks, Bank of Ireland and AIB, both confirmed that they don�t offer Sharia-compliant personal banking to customers. This means customers who wish to bank according to their religious beliefs cannot take out mortgages, loans or have savings accounts.  ( source )

Ireland: Al-Qaeda targeting Irish for conversion Via the Irish Examiner : Details of the plan emerged in a letter from American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn to an unidentified recipient. The correspondence was found in the house in Pakistan where al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was shot dead by US forces last year. (...) "This was after I noticed the sympathy of the Irish people to the Palestinian issue, and the soft treatment by the Irish judicial system of the Muslims accused of terrorism, and also not participating with its troops in Bush�s crusade wars. "Also, what helped to prepare the message was the last economic crisis that affected Ireland a lot, thus forcing its youth to look for sources of living in the outside. The other matter is the increasing anger in Ireland towards the Catholic Church after exposing a number of sex scandals and others. The people there are moving towards secularism, after it was the most religious of atheist Europe, and why do not we face t...