Liberty In Islam Is The Liberty To

Soaring Prices For Crude Oil, Falling Production Surpluses, Wild Speculation In Commodities, A Rush Into The Precious Metals, Turmoil In The Middle East, Assertive Oil Producers: It Is 1973-74 All Over Again, And At Dictation Speed.

Viewed From A Distance, Or Through The Eye Of The All-knowing Ceo Of The Universe, The Crash Of 2008 Followed The Usual Pattern. A Long-lived Boom Driven By Cheap Credit, Going Back As Far As 1982 (though Subject To Interruptions In The Mid-1980s And 1990s, And In 2001), Came To Grief Because Of A Rise In The Cost Of Borrowing Money.

Were There Peace And Justice In The Middle East, The Arabs Would No More Need Their Tinhorn Dictators Than They Would Their Corpulent Princes.

Osama Bin Laden, The Saudi-born Revolutionary Who Is Believed By Most Arab And Iranian Observers To Be The Inspiration Of The Attacks In New York And Washington, Is The Best Known Of The Islamic Militants To Have Emerged In The Past 20 Years And The Least Difficult To Fathom.

At The Heart Of Banking Is A Suicidal Strategy. Banks Take Money From The Public Or Each Other On Call, Skim It For Their Own Reward And Then Lock The Rest Up In Volatile, Insecure And Illiquid Loans That At Times They Cannot Redeem Without Public Aid.