Studying Islamic Finance

السلام والازدهار العدالة المجتمعي
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Thousands of Muslims Protest Google

Google headquarters in London is being picketed by thousands of Muslims who hope to make common cause with Catholics and others to protest a risible film that insults the Prophet and Muslims.

In a free market there is freedom of speech.  The problem is we do not have a free market.  We have a highly leveraged market, with companies like Google depending heavily on receiving and paying usury.  This distorts markets, and makes for venues that otherwise would not exist.  It is hardly a matter of "free speech" when someone with excess wealth finance a criminal to create and distribute a deeply offensive video which is then hosted on a highly subsidized and usury financed venue.  What has any of that to do with free speech?

Perhaps the Muslims, with their Catholic partners, ought to reflect on the pass usurers get in our respective societies, instead of fighting a battles we cannot win, a battle in which usury is ignored and we only object to the results of usury.

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