Comments on: Open Thread + Interest-Free Student Loans

By: osman

osman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:06:25 +0000

good news the islamic team won!!! however, it just means that it goes to the final where I’m guessing its viewed as the weakest option since it had to be voted in. Still nice to see our brothers and sisters are actually trying and getting involved instead of the usual arm-chair accusations and whines.

By: Amad

Amad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:32:26 +0000

I read the link, and frankly the person who is making the “refutation” doesn’t even cede the the Dow Jones fatwa, a fatwa that was approved by a majority of islamic experts, incl. Taqi Uthmani. This person also claims that personalities/names don’t impress her. Well, that is her problem, not the team’s. If you don’t recognize scholars/scholarship in this field, then really there is little reason to argue because this shouldn’t be argued/discussed by laymen. The team did enough to get the approval of a credible authority in Islamic Finance field.

Its one thing to disagree with the concept of Islamic finance, but quite another to try to publicly argue this, because it may hurt an effort that other muslims have vested a lot of time and effort in, and have scholar approval.

By: Urdu poet

Urdu poet — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:38:05 +0000

Aslamu-alaikum,

There are concerns about this idea as it may be against Islamic code

http://campusinnovation.igloocommunities.com/forums/rbcinnovat/team1/team3

By: Ibnkhalil

Ibnkhalil — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:17:01 +0000

Assalam o alaykum. This is en eye opener

SubhanAllah! Look at this http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=6639088

By: ibnabeeomar

ibnabeeomar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:06:47 +0000

comments will be fixed soon inshallah.. its got to do w/ our theme needing an upgrade and the new version of wordpress

By: Gohar

Gohar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:02:24 +0000

I noticed that recent comments are being displayed twice on the front page, once at the bottom as usual, and then again on the right towards the top. I think it looked better how it was before.

By: IbnAbbas

IbnAbbas — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:47:01 +0000

I just noticed the “EDIT” function being added on the blog.. welldone! it was very much needed.

By: Al-Madrasi

Al-Madrasi — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:49:02 +0000

Alhamdhulillah, nice to see a good initiative on student loans, may Allah give them huge success and make ummah benefitted……

By: Al Iskandarani

Al Iskandarani — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:40:08 +0000

Alsalamualaikum, I realize that for a politician, outrightly (though justly) criticizing Israel (on any grounds) is career suicide. Fair enough - after all, it's not called ideale politique. But the sheer number of politicians falling over themselves to loudly and publicly support the Zionist state is sickening. Bloomberg and Patterson have, for the first time in a long time, made me ashamed to be a New Yorker.

By: Amad

Amad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:42:00 +0000

I dont think RICE university has anything to do with it :) They are in Canada, they probably don’t even know RICE from rice ;)