I am yet to read any reason why we should abandon non-interest banking. The conventional banks charge as much as 22% on loans and motgage so why should I not patronize a bank that is not interested in milking me dry?

dustydee:

I am yet to read any reason why we should abandon non-interest banking. The conventional banks charge as much as 22% on loans and motgage so why should I not patronize a bank that is not interested in milking me dry?

thank you. Those making call against it are just being sentimental. Am very sure they will be the first to patronize it when it come to effect

me i know trust this northern nigeria muslims. Period!!!!! If they were like the southern muslims no problems but their fanatism has gotten to a dangerous extent. Olawale which of the muslims group do u belong to , north or south?

Finally, the first islamic banking licenced. Welcome JAIZ bank. If you like non interest banking, go there if you dont go to the conventional one. Period

olawaleb congratulations!!!! but when the "THING" start, i will remind you.

What is the THING that will start, when the benefit start rolling in you will be one of their customers.

Vatican offers Islamic finance system to Western Banks

The Vatican says Islamic finance system may help Western banks in crisis as alternative to capitalistm.

The Vatican offered Islamic finance principles to Western banks as a solution for worldwide economic crisis.

Daily Vatican newspaper, 'L'Osservatore Romano, reported that Islamic banking system may help to overcome global crisis, Turkish media reported.
The Vatican said banks should look at the ethical rules of Islamic finance to restore confidence amongst their clients at a time of global economic crisis.

"The ethical principles on which Islamic finance is based may bring banks closer to their clients and to the true spirit which should mark every financial service," the Vatican's official newspaper Osservatore Romano said in an article in its latest issue late yesterday.

Author Loretta Napoleoni and Abaxbank Spa fixed income strategist, Claudia Segre, say in the article that "Western banks could use tools such as the Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, as collateral". Sukuk may be used to fund the "'car industry or the next Olympic Games in London," they said.

They also said that profit share, gained from sukuk, may be an alternative to the interest. They underlined that sukuk system could help automotive sector and support investments in infrastructure area.

Islamic sukuk system is similar to bonos of capitalist system. But in sukuk, money is invested concrete projects and profit share is distributed to clients instead of interest earned.

Pope Benedict XVI in an Oct. 7 speech reflected on crashing financial markets saying that "money vanishes, it is nothing" and concluded that "the only solid reality is the word of God." The Vatican has been paying attention to the global financial meltdown and ran articles in its official newspaper that criticize the free-market model for having "grown too much and badly in the past two decades."

The Osservatore's editor, Giovanni Maria Vian, said that "the great religions have always had a common attention to the human dimension of the economy," Corriere della Sera reported today.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/index.php?aType=haberArchive&ArticleID=37814

The Cardinal is being naughty? He should tow the line of his superiors at the Vatican and stop being an alarmist and a selfish politician.

I may report him to the Pope for serious disciplinary action. How can you go against your principal? Is he more Catholic than the Pope?

jk