Posted by Timne on July 8, 2009, at 15:49:00
In reply to Re: would I do it when I'm happy? ***triggers***, posted by Sigismund on July 8, 2009, at 15:40:13
> >the vast majority of Westerners can't articulate the fundamental difference in approaches to finance between the culture from which the attackers were recruited and that championed at the specific location and by the very businesses that were attacked.
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> This is getting interesting. You are talking about Sharia banking? (Allow me to just remark in passing on the difference of attention given to MJ as against the latest Afghan wedding party blown to bits. What are they doing walking around anyway?) Some largish percentage (10 or 15%?) of the world's banking is Sharia based. As I understand it they go in for joint ventures.
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>Okay, the rest of you give me some companionship and at least a notion of alternative ways of thinking, but Sigismund gets a point for giving me a reason to live another day. "Sharia banking." First time I've heard that term (or read it in response to a clue-prompt) since I learned about it.
And to top it off, you managed to do it without insulting the 10 to 15 percent of the world that embrace that particular economic morality. The usual is "yes, but they have a way to get around it." and "yes, but that's just to keep them in their place under rich sheiks" as if the vast majority of mortgage holders in Western countries aren't similarly beholden, many locked into jobs with which they have deep ethical concerns but which they cannot leave because of their debt burden.
Yes, Sharia banking. Where do I sign up? (hint -- Fanny Mae has Sharia-compliant instruments)
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