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Posted by: AndygM 7 months ago

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Here's a new idea from the whole subprime mess (I say new but it's really thousands of years old!). Islamic law prevents devout Muslims from taking conventional mortgages and instead "Islamic Mortgages" mean that the banks share in the asset ownership and the risk taking. Someone should have suggested that...