fun fact: usury (charging interest on a loan) used to be considered evil and sinful, but now it’s just taken as a given, because that’s what we’ve been raised from birth to believe
Fun fact: because usury was sinful for Chrisians, but it wasn’t forbidden for Jews, many Jews were pushed into the money business with usury by not allowing them to do much other jobs and then had to pay high rents and taxes. It’s where the stereotype of greedy money controlling Jew comes from.
fun fact: usury (charging interest on a loan) used to be considered evil and sinful, but now it’s just taken as a given, because that’s what we’ve been raised from birth to believe
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=ger
Fun fact: because usury was sinful for Chrisians, but it wasn’t forbidden for Jews, many Jews were pushed into the money business with usury by not allowing them to do much other jobs and then had to pay high rents and taxes. It’s where the stereotype of greedy money controlling Jew comes from.
And still is in Islam right?