[Brilliant]

I attended a seminar on Islamic finance about 8 years ago. It was designed to be different. Other than their abhorrence of interest their really wasn’t any principle about it. I remember thinking it was a scam. The whole purpose of it is to pay some Islamic holy man some money and then he will bless it.

[KarlInOhio]

When I heard about the hoops they jump through to avoid calling interest interest, I realized they believe that their god can be fooled by tricky accounting.