git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoNetanyahu Derides UK as 'Islamic Republic of Britain'clashreport.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down10
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minus-squarePKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 month agoForcing the banking industry to give up usury would do more for the working class than anything Labor has done in decades.
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoTBH, Islamic banking is still usury that pretends not to be.
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThe most obvious would be replacing interest with a lump sum for using loaned money… which is coincidentally calculated as a percent of principal. So, the same thing, but using a loophole in the formulation of the usury ban in islam.
minus-squareMaeve @lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWe humans are a real piece of work.
Forcing the banking industry to give up usury would do more for the working class than anything Labor has done in decades.
TBH, Islamic banking is still usury that pretends not to be.
Can you tell me more?
The most obvious would be replacing interest with a lump sum for using loaned money… which is coincidentally calculated as a percent of principal. So, the same thing, but using a loophole in the formulation of the usury ban in islam.
We humans are a real piece of work.