Hands-Off Banking
In spite of the fact that I live in the US, I've found that it's useful to maintain a bank account in the UK for occasional transactions in local currency. It was almost impossible to get an account without a UK address, ostensibly because of regulations and policies introduced to prevent money movements by terrorists; nevertheless I do have an account, with one of the major high street banks.
Said bank chose to send me, presumably in ironic celebration of the anniversary of 9/11, an updated schedule of the charges for various bank accounts. (Everyone knows that since banks lost a shitload of money "lending" to penniless deadbeats with no possible means of repayment, they now have to fuck their regular, paying customers in the arse with a slew of increased charges in order to cover their deficits.)
I couldn't help noticing, in amongst the various fee-bearing accounts, that you can now get special FREE Islamic bank accounts:
"No interest paid or received (in accordance with Shariah law) and this means no planned overdraft possible. Money managed in a Shariah way."
I'm sorry? Did I read that right? Is this what we've now come to in the civilized world? Pandering to this miserable religion and giving out free banking to muslims so as not to offend their petty sensibilities? "No, I'm sorry Mr Christian Person. You're out of luck Ms Atheist. No special favors for you. Not until you start bombing people and marching in the street can you expect special accounts from our bank. Oh, and by the way, there'll be no eating by staff on the premises during the month of Ramadan, just in case the sight of it offends any of our more, shall we say, militant customers."
Can vegans now expect special accounts administered in a meatless environment? Can Buddhists have banks which guarantee to harm no living creatures in their offices? Where does it end?
And what the fuck does "managed in a Shariah way" mean? I don't claim to be any kind of authority on Shariah law but it does seem to involve an awful lot of disenfranchising women and wearing pyjamas during the day. Do you get a free prayer mat when you open an account? Does the woman behind the counter have to wear a veil? Whatever you do, don't be tempted to steal the pen from the counter at the bank - they'll probably cut your fucking hand off.
And all this on another day when "right wing" marchers in the UK, protesting the destruction of the nation by uncontrolled immigration, are attacked by thousands of muslims who care nothing for the history or culture of their "adopted" country, and proceed to attack the police for having the temerity to defend some tiny measure of free speech. (Notice how the left, in all its forms, is all in favor of protests, marches and demonstrations right up until the point where someone wants to express a view they don't agree with. Then they violently attack them.)
As Neville Chamberlain memorably demonstrated, appeasement doesn't get you anything. And this just smacks of the worst kind of tokenism in the face of a dangerous religious movement. Kind of like marking Hitler's invasion of Poland by offering special Nazi accounts for German immigrants "managed in an Arian way". I think not...
Copyright © 2009 Edward Bison
Said bank chose to send me, presumably in ironic celebration of the anniversary of 9/11, an updated schedule of the charges for various bank accounts. (Everyone knows that since banks lost a shitload of money "lending" to penniless deadbeats with no possible means of repayment, they now have to fuck their regular, paying customers in the arse with a slew of increased charges in order to cover their deficits.)
I couldn't help noticing, in amongst the various fee-bearing accounts, that you can now get special FREE Islamic bank accounts:
"No interest paid or received (in accordance with Shariah law) and this means no planned overdraft possible. Money managed in a Shariah way."
I'm sorry? Did I read that right? Is this what we've now come to in the civilized world? Pandering to this miserable religion and giving out free banking to muslims so as not to offend their petty sensibilities? "No, I'm sorry Mr Christian Person. You're out of luck Ms Atheist. No special favors for you. Not until you start bombing people and marching in the street can you expect special accounts from our bank. Oh, and by the way, there'll be no eating by staff on the premises during the month of Ramadan, just in case the sight of it offends any of our more, shall we say, militant customers."
Can vegans now expect special accounts administered in a meatless environment? Can Buddhists have banks which guarantee to harm no living creatures in their offices? Where does it end?
And what the fuck does "managed in a Shariah way" mean? I don't claim to be any kind of authority on Shariah law but it does seem to involve an awful lot of disenfranchising women and wearing pyjamas during the day. Do you get a free prayer mat when you open an account? Does the woman behind the counter have to wear a veil? Whatever you do, don't be tempted to steal the pen from the counter at the bank - they'll probably cut your fucking hand off.
And all this on another day when "right wing" marchers in the UK, protesting the destruction of the nation by uncontrolled immigration, are attacked by thousands of muslims who care nothing for the history or culture of their "adopted" country, and proceed to attack the police for having the temerity to defend some tiny measure of free speech. (Notice how the left, in all its forms, is all in favor of protests, marches and demonstrations right up until the point where someone wants to express a view they don't agree with. Then they violently attack them.)
As Neville Chamberlain memorably demonstrated, appeasement doesn't get you anything. And this just smacks of the worst kind of tokenism in the face of a dangerous religious movement. Kind of like marking Hitler's invasion of Poland by offering special Nazi accounts for German immigrants "managed in an Arian way". I think not...
Copyright © 2009 Edward Bison
posted by Mr Bison at
6:14 PM
2 Comments:
lol....fascist.
and whats the point in a bank account with no interest, you may as well just put all your money in a piggy bank
i actually like the idea of sharia banking. as i understood it you can still pay consideration to the banks but this is prearranged ie. you are not putting yourself at the mercy of some technocrat somewhere who decides your fate calling it "interest rates". i may be naive tho in this interpretation?
when all the minority terrorist hype is ignored who would you trust: a local panel of sharia arbitrators or a bunch of freemason (or analog [no luxurious analogue now that you are US] ...ney anal..log.. in your case! yacht owning, israel or monico visiting, public school educated elitocrats?
guessing that despite the hype of ceremony you have not yet really crossed over into this elite world i think personally you are in danger of "betraying" your working class methodist roots, did i get the methodist bit wrong well you know what i mean...
so glad you are back blogging
there is an irony, here is a man (you) who professes appreciation of the gun but espouses the beauty of the blog
mike
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