Yeah but interest rates are also forbidden under Islamic law. So what?
That settles it. I guess I'll be giving up my dream of opening a casino in downtown Duabi.
Usury as it is called, is also forbidden by Christianity.
But most Christians are fake and hypocrites.
You are a fake and a hypocrite. There is no direct condemnation of interest-taking in the New Testament.
When and why did the Christian Church stop viewing usury as a sin? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk
Exodus 22:24 (25)—If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
Leviticus 25:36— Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Mark 11:15-17New International Version (NIV)
15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”