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War On Iran: – Short takes …
Some short takes …
1. On Wednesday President Trump gave Iran 48 hours to respond to some one page doodle of U.S. wishes for a temporary peace agreement. So far Iran has ignored it. I believe is right to do so. There is no hope yet that the U.S. will agree to even the smallest of Iranian demands, the lifting of sanctions, in exchange for the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
2. Despite the so called ceasefire the U.S. is attacking empty and loaded Iranian tankers. This is an attempt to diminish Iran’s capability to store oil. It is also causing environmental damage.
Iran must prevent a “ceasefire with Israeli characteristics” during which the U.S. continues to attack while Iran is sitting still.
Iran will need to escalate to achieve some movement with regards to point 1 and 2.
During the recent fight with three U.S. destroyers Iran had refrained from using its medium and long range anti-ship missiles (Chinese as well as newer Iranian ones). It may well be time to put these into action.
for the record, apparently christianity and islam do not support usury… judiasm does…. whether i have this wrong or not – others will surely let me know… and of course it is ironic or coincidental that so much of the focus at present revolves around the role israel has played in its short history, not to mention the concept of zionism and etc. etc. as well…. i am looking at the financial empire being the most important empire to understand and generally it is relegated to somewhere much further back.. who wants to understand the nature of banking?? or who will live to be told all the banks are privately owned and you are not allowed to know who owns them?? and, i am talking about the central banks of countries here specifically…
Posted by: james | May 9 2026 17:58 utc | 345
And you have it on record, dear MoA commenter james, for being utterly wrong.
The concept of usury is expressed in Islam by the word riba and it is expressed as ribbit in Judaism, and both religions don’t look upon it kindly. You would’ve known this if you’ve done even a cursory research on the topic.
Islamic banking was invented to work around riba, creating a situation where they technically don’t charge interest but in practice do.
New Label, Same Vintage? Reassessing Participatory Islamic Banking in Pakistan
Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) advocates relentlessly promote it as a more inclusive and less rapacious (i.e., “participatory”) alternative to conventional finance as it ostensibly eschews interest-based, collateralized debt in favor of Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS, or Islamic venture capitalism). The US$ three trillion global IBF industry, they argue, “invests” in a wide range of economically beneficial activities and expands the pool of eligible beneficiaries. IBF’s critics have long argued that it is “a distinction without a difference” that uses close analogues of conventional financial products (aka the “murabahah syndrome”), and equity participation (PLS) has an insignificant share of global IBF assets. However, between 2006–2020, Islamic banks in Pakistan (an IBF pioneer) seemingly shifted away from conventional debt-analogue products to PLS financing. A closer analysis of these “participatory” Pakistani IBF products confirms the Kuran Thesis—that IBF will invariably and continually emulate conventional banking due to unchangeable environmental factors—since the banks developed new PLS financial products that allowed them to avoid being seen as ribawi (usurious) banks without having to take on the risks associated with actual venture capitalism. IBF, therefore, continues to be a higher cost, murabahah syndrome, version of conventional banking.
Because Giyane the Pakistani hater (and Khomenei hater, Iranian hater, Saudi hater etc because British Giyane is the only true light of Islam) is around, I should mention that the observation above applies to all Islamic banking, not just those in Pakistan.
In medieval times, Christians got around the prohibition against usury by foisting the practice of usury onto non-Christians, namely Jews. While the Christians can avail themselves to the services of Jewish bankers, the Christians aren’t technically sinning because they’re not the ones charging interest—it’s the Jews. This is the Christian version of the Jewish concept of eruv, a symbolic enclosure that allows observant Jews to follow Sabbath to the letter but not in spirit.
Since Jews were ostracized from medieval society, they had no choice but to go against their own religious teachings so as to secure a livelihood. Jewish bankers gained a small measure of power as a result, but it came with increased prejudice, which is the West’s stereotype of Jews as greedy financiers conspiring to form a shadowy cabal to control the world. The irony here is that it was the Christian West who conspired to create such a cabal. The power acquired by the Christian West’s “enemy”, the Jews, was entirely bequeathed to (arguably, forced upon) them by the Christians themselves.
A parallel can be found in modern times where the West’s solution for the Marxist contradictions spawned by industrialization—pollution, wage disputes etc—is to offshore industries to China. Let China deal with the contradictions. China became the whipping boy of the world, constantly castigated for polluting the Earth and underpaying its legions of workers who toil under slave-like conditions. In the West’s sermons against China, they conveniently neglect to bring up the fact that the vast majority of those Chinese goods end up being exported to the West.
And now that China has become a productive nation leading in solar, wind, EV etc that is capable of challenging the West, China is suddenly blamed for “stealing” the West’s industries, just like how the Jews “stole” banking from Christians.
This situation is called “wanting to have your cake and eat it too,” I believe.
Having had to deal with Tichy recently, Americans confidently making pronouncements about issues they are completely ignorant about irks me more than the issue of religious people circumventing their own religious laws so that they adhere to it in letter by not in spirit.
The Americans go, “Let’s murder someone for some imagined slight. If I’m wrong, another person will come along to correct me.”
This is how we have hundreds of schoolchildren and Ali Khamenei dead.
Death to America
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | May 9 2026 21:00 utc | 19
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