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...only Western bank in the Gulf that insists that all of its services adhere to the strict letter of Islamic law, known as Shari'a. Compliance is neither easy nor cheap. The law, which derives from the Koran, covers all areas of Islamic life, including management of financial affairs. Pious Muslims are not allowed to invest in industries that have ties to tobacco, alcohol, weapons, pornography or pork products. Since the law prohibits banks from charging or paying interest, Noriba and other Islamic Financial Institutions (ifis) instead make money by using a system based on the sharing of capital gains...
Singapore is called the "Nanny State" for many reasons, but high on the list is its ban on chewing gum. You won't see pious anti-mastication public service announcements, but anyone caught selling or manufacturing so much as a stick faces a fine of up to $5,600 and one year in jail. But last-second negotiations on a U.S.-Singapore Free Trade agreement could bring bubbles back. In a compromise, sugarless gum prescribed by doctors and dentists will be legal for sale by pharmacists?although to get your fix, you'll have to wait until the free trade...
...never once wished I’d gone to church as a kid, or that I’d read the Bible more. During high school, my lack of religion seemed to be more a blessing than a curse. So much of what I witnessed in my so-called pious peers struck me as, if not unabashedly sinful, surely hypocritical. In response to the first-hand accounts of religious conversions that we read during my seminar I had the overwhelming urge to roll my eyes. To this day, when people start to talk to me about their...
...actually more common for non-religious people to study religion, she assures me, because the kind of classes you take force you to stand back and judge different faiths. She relates something a girl in her tutorial said: “I chose to study religion because I am pious, but I’ve found that by studying religion I’ve become less...
...four-year affair in the 1980s with Edwina Currie, a boisterous former Health Minister - and tabloid reporters are on the hunt for other women who may have seen Major's blue underpants. This has revived memories of the Tories' bad old days of lurid scandals interspersed with pious calls for higher moral standards. Michael Ancram, the Tories' deputy leader, says his boss will focus on bread-and-butter issues like hospitals and crime where voters think Labour has overpromised. "We want to make a very careful case about how we can actually deliver services that will provide people the choice...