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To: JZelle

Funny I thought Muslims did not allow interest.


8 posted on 01/23/2006 11:58:46 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: funkywbr
Funny I thought Muslims did not allow interest.

I've heard about all the hoops they jump through to pretend that the financial arrangement they use to get money from a bank to buy a house isn't a mortgage with interest. I suppose that if it is complicated enough, Allah's accountants won't be able to figure it out and it isn't a sin. < /sarcasm>

9 posted on 01/23/2006 12:00:40 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Hey Fat Ted: Alito is the judge, Mojito is what you're drinking. Try to remember the difference.)
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To: funkywbr

They often get around it through wordplay; they'll pay interest but call it a "fee" or "rent", etc. That's how it works for some banks in Britain, anyway, which was the first Western country to really institute "Islamic" banking.


11 posted on 01/23/2006 12:01:32 PM PST by Lejes Rimul (I was right about Iraq all along. Told you so.)
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