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 country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

In April 1987 Gaffney was nominated to the position of US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. David Keene President of the American Conservative Union later commented on the Gaffney-Norquist dispute saying "I for one don't see it. He received his graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H.

Frank J. (born April 5 1953) is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy columnist at The Washington Times Big Peace and Townhall and radio host on Secure Freedom Radio.