Tuesday, September 9, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Asharq Al-Awsat: Saudi Arabia: Conflicting Fatwas Confusing Investors - '...The varying mechanisms of purification may also open the door for manipulation by financial institutions that may include "purified" sums in their disposable profits. In addition to weak internal oversight, as most of these financial institutions joined the Islamic banking sector recently; they do not have competent monitoring jurisprudence bodies, and even when they do, they are not well established.'