Islamic banking hits the high streets across the nation
Photo courtesy of the BBC
Lloyds TSB is to offer current accounts and mortgages which comply with Islamic law through its 2,000 strong branch network from Wednesday.
The bank has offered such accounts since 2005 but only in a few branches.
The bank will concentrate its main marketing push in about 100 branches in areas with a large Muslim population.
An Islamic scholar advising the bank told BBC News that access to such services would ultimately mean "less exclusion and less extremism."
Traditionally, many Muslims have shunned mainstream financial services and High Street banks because their products do not comply with Sharia law.
Under Sharia Islamic law, making money from money, such as charging interest, is usury and therefore not permitted.
Wealth should be generated only through legitimate trade and investment in assets.
Investment in companies involved with alcohol, gambling, tobacco and pornography is strictly off-limits. Islamic banaking goes nationwide by Julian Knight
Mark Alexander
20 comments:
Left:
Clearly, you don't understand what's going on here. You have NO idea of the danger Islam poses to YOUR freedom.
I should start reading, if I were you. You might want to start with my own book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, and then follow it by reading the Qur'an.
They'll be eye openers for you. They'll shake you out of your reveries!
left I am sorry for you. You will be one of the first to go under Islamic rule..
"There's 2 sides to every story, shouldn't we be trying to sort it out rather than standing on our soap boxes and ranting that the other side are wrong?" - left
In essense you are quite right, they probably are looking at us, saying much as we, in fact there is no probably about it. Conflict is made up of two sides both of whom think that they are in the right. Left - that is the root cause of war, and always has been. That we assign blame and apportion approprium to participants in a conflict after the fact; as in the Nazis were bad, dirty rotten monsters, after the shooting has died down, does not change the simple fact that up to and during the war, both sides claimed and felt that they were in the right. Try asking a German, without demeaning him with condign ridicule beforehand, as to his hopes and asperations, prior to or during the first part of the war, and I can assure you, you will not hear a tale of "Oh we were so bad, Hitler lied to us".
Sorry, the world doesn't revolve around your superior compassion, but there are forces afoot, that are determined to try their hand at a grab for power. You sound like you would wish it all away. Isn't that a little like Peter Pan, calling out from the lost recessess of your mind.
Jacob Bronowski once said that "War was a collective form of theft", he was quite right, though that statement grossly simplifies a highly complex issue.For war is the imposition of one party's agenda upon the actions of the other. Radical Islam is on the march, and all your wishing is not going to change that one little bit. If you choose to side with those that would ultimately enslave you, do not be surprised when you end up being ostrasized by those who you condemn for having more foresight, more resolution, and a deal more knowledge, especially from an historical perspective, than you.
I'm sure I am boring the regulars here, but Machiavelli nails it -
"The distance is so great between how we live and how we ought to live that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation; because a man who wants to make a profession of goodness in everything is bound to come to ruin among so many who are not good".
In spite of what the BBc says, America is not the big bad wolf. The world simply does not work the way the academic crowd says it should, they are after all, sheltered in the arms of a strong tolerant society; you want to know what happens when that strength evaporates, because society could not find enough resolute souls to defend it? Keep pushing your wishful hopes 'left', you'll find out soon enough.
Hi bld Great minds think alike, I just finished dinner.
I would be interested to know whether 'left' is just a passing fancy in denial or a real hard core pacifist, not that I want to beat up on him / her, just that I would like to try and understand just where they are coming from.
well left, you are probably a good person but reading your post reinforces my belief that parts of Britain and Europe will be living under Sharia law sooner rather than later. it won't be long before loudspeakers are wailing five times a day in some British towns if they aren't already, when this happens, go and live there and see how you like it, who knows maybe you will.
Shortly after 9/11, one of the Middle Eastern banks here in the D.C. area was closed for money-laundering to Hamas and Hezbollah. Also, quite recently the Muslim-funded charity organization for the day-laborer center in Herndon had its funds seized for a large amount of money the source of which had to be investigated by the feds.
Left:
I see that you're a nasty, closed-minded, unreasonable type. One who thinks that all people must think the same nonsense as you do.
In years gone by, especially during the Forties in the UK and the US, people like you would have been locked up for sympathizing with the enemy. Alas, times have changed.
Better would it be if people like you were locked up, since you are danger to all free-thinking, liberty-loving folk who feel threatened by the growth of Islam in the West.
If you have any intellectual capacity at all, stay and fight your corner. If you do not, then I believe we can safely conclude that you are an intellectual lightweight. If that's the case, then there is no hope for you and your type anyway.
Wealth should be generated only through legitimate trade and investment in assets.
If this wasn`t so terribly hypocritical... I would real laugh! Can`t though, since it`s all too serious matter. Their hypocricy is as vast as their evilness. And still, we, the Western "3 monkeys" (not listening, not watching, not talking) are chewing our self-cooked meal, yet not realizing that it`s got poisonous ingredients.
Urghhhhh....
EK
Left:
What have i said to make you think i'm nasty? Disagreeing with your opinion?
Yes!
Wanting me locked up for not sharing your views? Do you wonder why i call you a facist..
No!
You think it's reasonable to lock people up for having different views???
Yes!
No point mentioning guantanamo then.
Forget it. It's an irrelevance.
You and your views frighten me.
They should!
Mark, everything you said in your last post rings true of what i think of you.
Do you want me to lose sleep tonight, or what?
I think i will get your book and see what you are saying, ...
Please do, and report back to us after you've read it. I'm sure you'll change your views after reading it (if you keep an open mind).
...it seems to me that everyone hear has bought into it hook line and sinker, but then again people bought into mein campf.
People who comment on my weblog are generally very intelligent. They are usually quite able to make up their own minds about such serious matters.
I presume you mean Mein Kampf - that horrendous book written by the infamous Herr Adolf Hitler.
That you should compare what I have written with that evil man's words is incredible, especially since you haven't yet read my book! Is this what liberal people do? Talk about things they know nothing about!
Oh dear! We right-thinking people really do have an uphill struggle ahead of us!
By the way, your screen-name is 'Left'. Does this mean that you are left-leaning, that your senses have left you, or both? I can't quite make up my mind.
European Kafir:
LEFT:
Do you think somewhere in the muslim world there is a parallel blog void that complains and worries about the influx of western policies, christianity, ways of life etc into they're society.
Please allow me to answer for Left. Not likely! It would be closed down. Pronto!
No, they don`t use blogs. They prefer to kill their opponents, kafirs, they tend to burn flags and attack embassies because of some cartoons.
I real wonder what`s worse... blogs? or their way?
Yes, EK, blogs are pretty inoccuous things when compared with killing kuffar, most usually by beheading them, attacking embassies, most usually burning them down, and all manner of other inhumane things done to infidels.
I think Left should start reassessing his ideas before it's too late.
The left will be the first to go when Islam takes over the reins of power. There won't be much left of the left then!
@ marc
Excellent reply to "lefts" comments!
Bi einisch meh beidruckt!!! (go figure what this means...;-))
:-)
EK
European Kafir:
Excellent reply to "lefts" comments!
Glad you liked it! :-)
Bi einisch meh beidruckt!!! (go figure what this means...;-))
Ich stelle mir vor: Ich bin einmal noch mehr beeindruckt worden. Oder wie man in Züritüütsch würde sage: Ich bin amaal no meh beidruckt! :-) Hani racht? :-)
Mark:
Your Swiss German is outstanding!
EK
Herzlichen Dank, European Kafir! Es freut mich sehr, das zu hören!
Mark
My pleasure.
I love to read your articles and just like "left" I am real interestend in reading your book.
EK
European Kafir:
I shall look forward to getting your opinions on it. Who knows? You might even wish to review it.
By the way, it's great to have you commenting here with us.
Mark:
I will order the book and then let you know what I think of it (not that this is of importance really, but I still will).
As for my comments: MY PLEASURE!!!
EK
Left:
You did not answer one single question... therefore I can`t take you for serious really.
Sort of .. just LEFT kindergarten???
EK
left wrote:
"i'm fighting the urge to view you all as skinhead combat-18 BNP voters (or american equivalent."
This is interesting as so many people think this way. They use moral equivalence to lump anyone who criticizes Islam into the same catagory.
They don't differenciate between the "right-wing-white-power-type-nutters" who want to transform the west back into a whites-only-non Jewish-zone, and ordinary folk, like those on sites like this who see a frightening threat and speak out.
All this seems obvious to me but still it needs to be said. There are many non-white non-European people who feel the same.
Recently on melaniephillips.co.uk an emailer of Jamacian descent wrote an excellent piece reiterating exactly the thoughts of this blog.
She was scared of losing the life of freedom she enjoyed in Britain.
Anyone from any country and any race can join western civilization and benefit. Look at the United States, a real mix of folk but sharing common western values.
Can Muslims join western civilzation? Only if they severely water down their beliefs, if that's possible.
bld, SPOT ON! BRAVO
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