The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 44,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Woo-hoo! Having completed Money Jihad‘s second year on the web, we’ve made it well past the “experimental” stage. It’s hard to believe we started out two years ago (with my first, but not last, rant against Treasury dufus David S. Cohen). Thank you, dear readers, for visiting and sticking with this blog. Special thanks to the indispensable Shariah Finance Watch and to Puneet for their support. The top-shelf Religion of Peace, Het Vrije Volk, and Creeping Sharia have sent us lots of readers as well–it has been greatly appreciated.
Money Jihad has also finally taken a flying leap—into social networking—by launching its own Twitter feed (@MoneyJihad). I tried to keep it a little hush-hush at first, but Creeping Sharia crept onto our feed, and was kind enough to tweet their whopping 12,000 followers about our existence. Anyway, that got us going with a few dozen followers off the bat, but the more the merrier! I’m blasting out links to informative, disturbing, and amusing articles that we don’t have the time or space to examine fully here on the main blog. Come join the fun!
Sir, my “charity” is doing okay, but I really need bank sponsorship to take it to the next level. Please help!
As we’ve noted before, Money Jihad blog receives demands for zakat from Muslims all over the world from direct emails or from comments submitted on Money Jihad posts. (See this old post for for a dozen examples of “zakat spam” we’ve intentionally left un-deleted.)
These requests are laughable to anybody who is actually familiar with the content of this blog. As an anti-poverty program, zakat has an abysmal record. As a terrorist financing method, zakat has been wildly successful. This blog donating a single penny in zakat would be as absurd as saying that Islam is a religion of peace.
This message we received through “Contact us” from an entity purporting to be “Islamic Relief Aid Uganda” is also absurd, laughable, and disturbing. Their IP address corresponds to Kampala, Uganda.
Name: Islamic Relief Aid Uganda
Email: uganda@islamicreliefaiduganda.tk
Website:
Message: Assalamu alaikum Brothers
This is an Email from Islamic Relief Aid Uganda.we need to fight Christians who want to take over our land in Northern Uganda,we are requesting for Money Jihad Brothers to help us fight the Christians get out of our land and this will require publication of materials to be distributed to all Mosques.
We Officially submit this application as United 220 Mosques Leaders for request of Support USD 8,000 to buy a Printing Holy Quran Machine and Printing Papers.
We appeal to Money Jihad Administration and the Director for support.We look forward for response in Names of Allah.
The Bank Account is available on request
> Time: Sunday June 12, 2011 at 3:38 am
> IP Address: 41.210.173.26
Iran’s Mohammad Khatami helps us cut our halal birthday cake!
Money Jihad launched last year on October 12, and the time has flown by! The blog has been viewed about 25,000 times and readership is still growing. Thanks so much to all our readers, subscribers, our top referrers (The Religion of Peace, Creeping Sharia, Google, the Dutch website Het Vrije Volk, Jihad Watch for inspiring this blog, and to Shariah Finance Watch both for their support and for their own great work!). And where would we be without top commenters like Puneet and Sadie?
Periodically we’ve shared site statistics about this blog’s most popular posts. But on this occasion, maybe it would be better to look back and highlight some of the most overlooked, under-read posts of the year. These are items that seemed pretty decent at the time, but received few or zero hits according to WordPress stats.
Let’s just call them “the best of the worst,” and try to breathe some new life into these old bones.
Take heart, dear reader. You’re not alone in your concerns about the financial jihad against us. You’re not the only one who wants to follow the money behind the Ground Zero Mosque. You’re not the only one who wants to know where Al Qaeda gets its financing. You’re not the only one who recognizes that the Islamists receive most of their funds through taxes mandated by Muhammad, and that Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s “jihad with money” must be resisted at every turn. The jihadist is being unveiled. The word is spreading.
As of this week, this blog has been viewed over 20,000 times. Thank you, Money Jihad readers & referrers! And thank you, WordPress, for providing nifty little charts and summaries like this:
Money Jihad's average monthly readership since inception
Sometime last week the number of Money Jihad views exceeded 15,000. Not bad for a niche blog over nine months time.
Our most widely read post? ”Sharia mortgages boost Burj ownership“ with almost a thousand views. Go fig.
Thanks as always to our readers–and top referrers like Shariah Finance Watch!
As of today, Money Jihad has received just over 10,000 hits since launching in October 2009. Thanks especially to our top 10 referring sites:
Those are all great resources—please support them. An honorable mention also goes to Skeptical CPA. Cheers!
In the very first post of this blog, I covered the dual trends of surging Taliban revenues and declining Al Qaeda revenues.
I’ve also criticized “mainstream” thinking that Al Qaeda is poorer because of tighter financial screws by U.S. Treasury and the U.N.
I’ve addressed the Taliban’s funding network and have linked to a certain New York Times article from last fall a couple times.
So, reading Victor Comras’s post on Counterterrorism Blog on Sunday was a bit like looking in a mirror. Read it for yourself. His arguments, sources, and conclusions are similar to mine.
Today marks four months (and now over 5,000 views) of Money Jihad. For fun, I wanted to let readers know what our four most popular posts have been:
4. Funding slavery & terror: Part II
3. “Anti-money laundering” bill before U.S. Senate
2. Jesus the tax reformer. Muhammad the tax collector
1. Philippines to let MILF collect taxes
I am so heartened that the Jesus/Muhammad piece has been getting more hits recently. It’s actually been read more times since the Christmas season than during it.
And now for four of my own personal favorites:
4. The khums tax menace
3. Pearl Harbor & 9/11 in numbers
2. The Zakat
1. Taliban revenues: reading between the lines
I list the “Taliban revenues” piece, not because it’s the best post I’ve written, but because it (along with our FAQ) sums up the raison detre of this blog. The majority of terrorism in the world today is conducted by jihadists, and their operations are mostly funded through taxes–especially but not limited to the zakat–outlined in the Koran and Hadith.
Those who focus exclusively on the money laundering or criminal element of terrorist financing miss the broader connection between traditional Islamic finance and modern terrorism.
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