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Related: About this forumIt’s time for Islamophobic evangelicals to choose
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/15/my-take-its-time-for-islamophobic-evangelicals-to-choose/comment-page-5/September 15th, 2012
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By Brian McLaren, Special to CNN
I was raised as an evangelical Christian in America, and any discussion of Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations around the world must include the phenomenon of American Islamophobia, for which large sectors of evangelical Christianity in America serve as a greenhouse.
At a time when U.S. embassies are being attacked and when people are getting killed over an offensive, adolescent and puerile film targeting Islam - beyond pathetic in its tawdriness we must begin to own up to the reality of evangelical Islamaphobia.
Many of my own relatives receive and forward pious-sounding and alarm-bell-ringing e-mails that trumpet (IN LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS!) the evils of Islam, that call their fellow evangelicals and charismatics to prayer and spiritual warfare against those alleged evils, and that often - truth be told - contain lots of downright lies.
For example, one recent e-mail claimed Egyptian Christians in Grave Danger as Muslim Brotherhood Crucifies Opponents." Of course, that claim has been thoroughly debunked, but the senders website still (as of Friday) claims that the Muslim Brotherhood has crucified those opposing" Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy "naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others.
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jody
(26,624 posts)My apologies to Muslims if I have misstated the above.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)If so, Jews and Christians have been ignoring it for a long time.
jody
(26,624 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)"Islamic banking has the same purpose as conventional banking: to make money for the banking institute by lending out capital. But that is not the sole purpose either. Adherence to Islamic law and ensuring fair play is also at the core of Islamic banking. Because Islam forbids simply lending out money at interest (see riba), Islamic rules on transactions (known as Fiqh al-Muamalat) have been created to prevent this evil. The basic principle of Islamic banking is based on risk-sharing which is a component of trade rather than risk-transfer which we see in the conventional banking. Islamic banking introduces concepts such as profit sharing (Mudharabah), safekeeping (Wadiah), joint venture (Musharakah), cost plus (Murabahah), and leasing (Ijar)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking