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Sharia V. Capitalisim
---They Hate our freedom, but love their Sharia --- MWO

A thriving financial sector sounds like an oxymoron these days. Even Australia's banks - among the most profitable in the world - kept a fifth of this week's interest rate cut to cushion their margins. But there is one sector that has tongues wagging in the hubs of commerce: Islamic finance.

While the Western world's financial system has been imploding, this small but rapidly growing share of world capital has weathered the storm.
Posted by: mac w only 2008-10-15
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=252760