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Grand Medina Nature Reserve & Beach Resort https://www.owngrandmedina.com/ Are your intrigued by The Grand Medina Nature Reserve and Beach Resort investment opportunity, which is being billed as “THE FIRST MUSLIM FAMILY-FRIENDLY RESORT IN THE AMERICAS”? We evaluated it as primarily an investment and secondly as to Islamic values, and our opinions can be broadly categorized into the following four themes: What constitutes Muslim family friendly How halal is the investment opportunity Are there really “No additional costs such as maintenance, property or insurance fees” for the first 1200 purchasers. Is this a good investment In summary, while we may visit the Grand Medina Resort, we would not be investors. Given the additional costs we uncovered, and the capped return versus the development risk, we personally did not find that this investment fit our requirements. To those at Grand Medina Resort, if you find any error in our evaluation, please do comment and p...

Welcome to the Halal Jihadist where we hope to educate and turn a spotlight on the world of investing and food. Our objective in publishing our thoughts is primarily to force rigor into our thoughts and share it with you.  We have come across what we believe to be questionable definitions of halal and want to force ourselves to be just in on our evaluation and felt sharing our opinions in written form would do just that, as it would open us to your opinions. Halal Meat -------------- So what is our beef [pun intended]? Halal meat and the certification agencies.  Halal is more than the act of using a blade across the throat of an animal, but to all those who we spoke with in the certification business last year (2017) that is all they measured. Sharia / Riba Investing ---------------------------- We feel it is very important that we preserve and grow our wealth to ensure we can give Zakat to those in need.  When we see faith based marketing schemes, and the ...