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The title and article are using reglion as a context when it's not. As a consumer I am not converting to Sharia finance, I have just found a product which meets
by nextweek2 8y ago
The title and article are using reglion as a context when it's not. As a consumer I am not converting to Sharia finance, I have just found a product which meets my requirements.
The index fund I am invested in turns out to be mainly high tech stocks with a low fee, just because it has 'Islamic' in the fund name doesn't mean I'm a convert to the religious philosophy.
- akerl_ 8y agoWould you still be concerned if the title said "Why non-Muslims are converting to financial institutions which abide by sharia law"? They're a publication; the job of all headline is to convince people to read articles, and on the "clickbait" scale, this seems to be pretty solidly "not clickbait".
- ataturk 8y agoMind you we have been living under Jewish finance for generations and that hasn't been going that well! Usury was a sin in the Catholic Church, iirc. Which religion has stable, gold backed money and low taxes? I'd like to join that one. I was going to find out if the Lakota tribe would adopt me and allow me to live with them as part of a peaceful, sovereign nation within North America. Also, the Amish are definitely on to something with how they live mostly outside of the corrupt, warmongering, inflationary system the US has. I will say for the record that bankers being bankers, I doubt very much any type of financing will really ever be any different than any other. There's all these Type A guys out there with one thought in their brains--to shear the sheep as hard and as often as possible.
- dang 8y agoI think it's the Economist being cheeky with the title in their usual way. A bit baity, but maybe not so much that we need to change it.
- hbhakhra 8y agoOut of curiosity, which fund would that be?