| From Economic Times: With the global financial crisis putting the spotlight on "casino capitalism" of the West, leading scholars and experts from the Arab world on Thursday pitched for interest-free Islamic banking as a solution and its introduction in India, home to the world's largest Muslim minority.
Tracing the genesis of the global meltdown to "greed and unscrupulousness" of financiers and speculators in the West, Umar Chapra, adviser Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, said the crisis resulted from "excessive and imprudent lending."......................................Full Article: Source |