Posted on 10/12/2008 8:37:56 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Muslims should take advantage of the global financial crisis to build an economic system compatible with Islamic principles, influential Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said on Sunday.
"The collapse of the capitalist system based on usury and paper and not on goods traded on the market is proof that it is in crisis and shows that Islamic economic philosophy is holding up," said the Egyptian-born, Qatar-based cleric.
"The Western system has collapsed and we have a complete economic philosophy as well as spiritual strength," he said at Sunday's opening of a conference on Jerusalem.
"All riches are ours... the Islamic nation has all or nearly all the oil and we have an economic philosophy that no one else has," Qaradawi said.
He urged Muslims to "profit from the crisis to bring about the triumph of the (Islamic) nation, which holds the spiritual and material resources for victory."
The sixth conference on Jerusalem is being attended by around 300 people representing political parties as well as Muslim and Christian NGOs, from various countries.
It is staged by Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Institution, which is dedicated to the conservation of the holy city and its sacred places.
Participants include Khaled Meshaal, exiled head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, and Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei.
The three-day conference will look at ways of protecting Jerusalem and its holy sites, which participants believe are threatened by Israel.
Wonder when Obama will make this guy his Secretary of the Treasury?
In the Muslim system, late payments will cost you and arm and a leg.
Wasn’t Mohammed a slave trader?
Yes, of course the Islamic system is superior! We can see it the super-advanced technological state of Muslim socieities across the world. How can we keep deluding ourselves with such overwhelming evidence?
Obamas’ father was descended from Muslim Arab slave traders.
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Don’t lose your head over this.
It’s time to get the money lenders out of the mosque.
“The collapse of the capitalist system based on usury and paper and not on goods traded on the market is proof that it is in crisis and shows that Islamic economic philosophy is holding up,” said the Egyptian-born, Qatar-based cleric.
“The Western system has collapsed and we have a complete economic philosophy as well as spiritual strength,” he said at Sunday’s opening of a conference on Jerusalem.
“All riches are ours... the Islamic nation has all or nearly all the oil and we have an economic philosophy that no one else has,” Qaradawi said.
Very interesting. The greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in the history of civilization has NOTHING going for it, other than being compatible with every other like-minded current (witness them) socialist collective and those throughout history.
Oh yeah, the Islamic economic system works SO great. ::sarc tag in case it is needed::
It would be a nice try. Unfortunately, you have to find the capitalism first in order to replace it.
Lotsa luck finding it, Mohammed.
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