Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services. – Hassanal Bolkiah
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this countrys taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. – Frank Gaffney

