Honor killings and banking systems are the new pop culture.
University Islamic Financial has two types of financing, one called a marked-up installment sale and the other a lease-to-purchase sale. Fees in both cases are comparable to interest payments in traditional loans, bank officials say.
For example: A seller who bought a house for $100,000 could sell it for $120,000 or even $300,000, provided the buyer agrees it's a fair deal. The home could be sold on an installment plan negotiated by buyer and seller.
The bank is a subsidiary of Michigan-based University Bank, and its leaders say they have talked recently with executives from two national banks hoping to learn more about the business.
Islamic law says money cannot grow by itself, the way it does with compounding interest. Trade is acceptable as long as the equal amounts of money are traded or two different things are swapped with a fairly negotiated price.
So a dime for an apple would be considered "halal," or religiously acceptable, while one apple for two apples would be "harem," or unacceptable.
So if the Green Frog Market being a small town business needing to recoup the cost after Stone Cold and Booker trash the place, auctions a smashed apple on ebay and it wins with the price of more than two apples, Green Frog should be burned down and all employees, owners and their families executed.
What? Shariah has no provision for wrestling? Shades of Chris Benoit, what's better honor killing or wrestling?
Where are Christains allowed to have their own lives in this new world order? Ancient Egypt is reasserting itself. We'll be force-fed opium and raw grain by slavemasters, live as heckling, cackling servants in camps and building temples to Allah until Christ hears our pleas then decides to put an end to our suffering.
