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Re:How interest-free banking works: The case of JAK by aw3c2 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:22AM (#7737393)
It might be some fascist myth (and if so, I am sorry for spreading it, please educate me!) but wasn't one of the reasons for Jewism being condemned by many places that they took interest?
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Re:How interest-free banking works: The case of JAK by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @07:09AM (#7737508)
Jews were exploited by Christian rulers as financiers, in two ways:

* Jews were allowed to loan money to non-Jews, whom the Jewish legal system originally counted as "foreigners". (Please remember that these laws were written in a much more tribalistic and xenophobic age.)

* Laws were passed keeping Jews out of professions other than peddling and moneylending, thus ensuring a steady supply of Jewish lenders.

* If the ruling class didn't want to pay back a Jewish lender, they could just call him a Christ-killer, turn a mob against him, and run him out of town.

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Re:How interest-free banking works: The case of JAK by digitalengineer on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:11AM (#7737699)
Not just Jews. Friday the 13th comes to mind...
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