Remember Amir Khan being told not to wear a Union flag on his shorts? Or actors being told not to portray certain characters (some kid out of shameless) ?
Wonga is presumably switching it's shirt advertising from Blackpool to Newcastle, a bigger more prestigious club. £24 million is a lot of money and that money has been made from charging usurious rates of interest on loans. Perhaps the muslim council can tolerate sponsorship from banks and financial institutions that charge 'reasonable' interest rates, but Wonga is just too much to tolerate. I am no lover of nor apologist for sharia law or many of the more extravagent muslim edicts. However they have a right to point out that in their opinion, Wonga is a company with which no muslim should contemplate doing business. The co-op bank for example has an ethical investment policy. This edict sounds little different from that. I doubt very much if a fatwa will be declared on the Newcastle footballing muslims if they ignore the edict
Out of interest, can anyone that says they are a muslim, use these muslim banks and take advantage of the 0% rates that muslims get?
I'm pretty sure that anyone can take advantage of Sharia compliant banking services. It's not just interest-free accounts, there are Sharia compliant leases etc. as well as business banking and multi-million pounds deals covered by Sharia services.
Out of interest, can anyone that says they are a muslim, use these muslim banks and take advantage of the 0% rates that muslims get?
I'm pretty sure that anyone can take advantage of Sharia compliant banking services. It's not just interest-free accounts, there are Sharia compliant leases etc. as well as business banking and multi-million pounds deals covered by Sharia services.
I can't see what Sharia Law has got to do with it as it only applies in Islamic States, the last time I checked GB wasn't an Islamic State!
I am pertty sure that instead of charging the interest visibly they chuck it on top before and pretend it isnt and then pay the same as we do. If you sctatch the surface of any religion its bollocks.
One muslim I worked with i used to ask things all the time. Things such as - when does ramadam end - and he'd say some shit about seeing the moon at a certain time and you knew that was it. but it was late that year cos the imam hadnt seen it or whatever. i am sure it worked years ago in the desert but you live in smoggy london i pointed out to him.
Same as alot of holy text shit - if you truly believe whatever holy book it is you should stick to it but if you do it doenst fit now , but if you move with the times then it looks like the shit it is. IMHO.
Out of interest, can anyone that says they are a muslim, use these muslim banks and take advantage of the 0% rates that muslims get?
I'm pretty sure that anyone can take advantage of Sharia compliant banking services. It's not just interest-free accounts, there are Sharia compliant leases etc. as well as business banking and multi-million pounds deals covered by Sharia services.
I can't see what Sharia Law has got to do with it as it only applies in Islamic States, the last time I checked GB wasn't an Islamic State!
yes a few of the kent muslim players dont have the alchol sponser on their shirt as alchol is a sin.
fair play to them.
Looks like they do have it but just tape it over so others can't see it. - kind of defeats the object.
Not really since they aren't giving the advertiser any publicity.
No idea of the figures involved.so what I'm about to say may not be relevant in reality.
However hypothetically speaking , taking Kent and Azhar as an example, if Sheps effectively cover his wages via their sponsorship is it wrong for him to be paid by a brewery since it is apparently wrong for him to advertise it?
It's not as if the Islamic lending is free, incidentally - the interest is replaced with a lending fee.
I was once involved with setting up an islamic-friendly mortgage product. Essentially the fees were pretty much the same as the interest would have been with a traditional product. Seemed like a very easy way of getting around rules that had apparently been set out by an omnipotent being.
Anyway, the whole thing is a complete non-story. It's a convergence of two of the low-brow media's favourite topics, overpaid footballers and crazy muslim rules. If you could have got the EU into the mix the Daily Mail would have pulled their collective balls off with excitement.
It's not as if the Islamic lending is free, incidentally - the interest is replaced with a lending fee.
I was once involved with setting up an islamic-friendly mortgage product. Essentially the fees were pretty much the same as the interest would have been with a traditional product. Seemed like a very easy way of getting around rules that had apparently been set out by an omnipotent being.
Anyway, the whole thing is a complete non-story. It's a convergence of two of the low-brow media's favourite topics, overpaid footballers and crazy muslim rules. If you could have got the EU into the mix the Daily Mail would have pulled their collective balls off with excitement.
...even more so if it had also transpired that Lady Di had been refused a loan by wonga's Romanian staffed call centre in Bradford.
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I am no lover of nor apologist for sharia law or many of the more extravagent muslim edicts. However they have a right to point out that in their opinion, Wonga is a company with which no muslim should contemplate doing business.
The co-op bank for example has an ethical investment policy. This edict sounds little different from that. I doubt very much if a fatwa will be declared on the Newcastle footballing muslims if they ignore the edict
One muslim I worked with i used to ask things all the time. Things such as - when does ramadam end - and he'd say some shit about seeing the moon at a certain time and you knew that was it. but it was late that year cos the imam hadnt seen it or whatever. i am sure it worked years ago in the desert but you live in smoggy london i pointed out to him.
Same as alot of holy text shit - if you truly believe whatever holy book it is you should stick to it but if you do it doenst fit now , but if you move with the times then it looks like the shit it is. IMHO.
An explanation of Islamic - or Sharia compliant - banking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking
However hypothetically speaking , taking Kent and Azhar as an example, if Sheps effectively cover his wages via their sponsorship is it wrong for him to be paid by a brewery since it is apparently wrong for him to advertise it?
Anyway, the whole thing is a complete non-story. It's a convergence of two of the low-brow media's favourite topics, overpaid footballers and crazy muslim rules. If you could have got the EU into the mix the Daily Mail would have pulled their collective balls off with excitement.