Shari’a finance, it would appear, is on a par with investing in the operating capital of the Mafia, or perhaps the drug cartels of Mexico and South America. There are large returns, to be sure, though none of it may be called “interest” as the Islamic interpretation of “interest” is the same as usury. But think of this as being venture capital for mosque construction, to be repaid by the receipts from the collection of Jizya, a poll-tax levied from those who did not accept Islam.
Spot on.