[JoeA]

Outside out of my normal topics, but too important to ignore.

[TribalPrincess2U]

My you held your rage very nicely. I don’t know that i could have done the same.

I returned my new Foley’s CC because they sent all info in Spanish and I’m afraid I wasn’t very nice about it.

[I still care]

The reason they have special sharia loan companies is because Moslems are not allowed to enter into traditional Western style financial arrangements. It's one of the reason people are poverty striken in Muslim countries)unless they get oil money.

For instance: (From a muslim website)

Central to Islamic finance is the fact that money itself has no intrinsic value, it is simply a medium of exchange. Each unit is 100% equal in value to another unit of the same denomination and you are not allowed to make a profit by exchanging cash with another person. A Muslim is not allowed to benefit from lending money or receiving money from someone.

This means that earning interest (riba) is not allowed. To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts or applied to Islamic mortgages.

This is one reason Muslims work with communists. I'm also pretty sure they can't buy insurance, it's considered gambling. So a woman (unless they do the Islamic creative financing thing) is out of luck if her husband dies. She's dependent on alms and the male members of her family.