Re-educating the Vietnamese

[Clanger]

I dunno why this sprung to mind, but I had to tell you something about when I was travelling through Vietnam on my world trip...

When I was in Hanoi, each time I walked down the street - anywhere! I was harrassed, followed, and shouted at by the men on their mopeds - who's constant call of 'lay-dee laydee motorbike motorbike, cheap cheap' soon stopped me saying 'no thanks' and instead saying, 'no, it's not a motorbike, its a moped' or pointing at my feet 'free free'.

I was actually sick of hearing myself say 'no thanks' by then, several times a day, throughout both India and Vietnam!!!
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[The Artist]

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[MinhDinh]

[The View Askew]

We should start lining up at airports and harrassing immigrants.

You buy driving licence, you buy council house, you buy interest free islam credit that we give you to lick your stinking ringhole.

One day im going to get me an islam loan.

It's just the part when they ask me if I'm an islam, it's gonna take serious puckering up to emit an affirmative through teeth so tightly gritted my tongue has no space to make sounds into words.

Bah.
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[Adam.I]

[Robby]

Sharia law forbids earning interest off a loan - largely because it's what Jews do.

Interesting tidbit of history - a few hundred years ago, before banks etc came along, Christians were forbidden by the Bible from earning interest on loans, and also due the fuedal system of rents and tithing, they never had any money to lend anyway.
Along comes your local Jew, who can and will lend money at extortionate interest rates to the local peasants. The Jews tended to live in stone houses, not wooden huts. This wasn't for reasons of status or comfort, it was so that they could lock their doors and hide in a secure house when a gang from the village came to attempt to kill them for being money grabbing bastards.
Good to see attitudes towards Jews have changed so much throughout history.

Anyway, back onto the OPish. an islamic loan is a loan without interest, although I'm not sure how the rest of it works. I would assume that instead of charginf interest there's a large upfront admin fee or something. Otherwise it would be free money.

[MinhDinh]

[Robby]

So you do pay interest, it's just disguised under a different name.

People finding a way to get around the strict wording of their religious law and completely avoiding the spirit of it, whatever next.

[bootsbiker]

so r u going back then Clanger????
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[MinhDinh]

[D O G]

[sickpup]

Money lending by Jews pre-dates Christianity by a long time, after all it was Jewish money lenders who Jesus threw out of the Temple.

[Itchy]

[Robby]

Itchy, your posts are never particularly clear - are you complaining because you're buddies with allah, or just complaining in general there?

[Itchy]

[MinhDinh]

[thegubner]

[Itchy]

[skiberd123]

sort of unrelated but how was vietnam? thinking of going there this summer and buying a cheap bike and looping through cambodia. any tips?

[The View Askew]

Sorry, I'm not a London boy, round my ends no man tries to sell you shit, because he knows he is wasting his breath and time.

With the exception of the dvd China-man who is a legend and everyone loves him, even he doesn't shove it in your face, just walks along, and everyone knows what the score is anyway.

When I was in Israel, I experienced nothing but ENDLESS arabs trying to sell me things, taking my photo, trying to sell me the polaroid, selling bread, camel rides, radios, you name it.

So I slated another country, as I never experienced this in my own.

As for the religious types they are a worldwide problem, not just anywhere.

Jehova's witnesses piss me off the most, as THEY, are not ready for the return of christ, let alone telling me I'm not, the plebians.
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[MinhDinh]

[Tonka]

Clanger, it's one of the reasons I only managed to get as far as Sri Lanka, India was a step too far. I suffered a considerable amount of harassment, both verbal and physical. I was covered head to toe, so not obviously a Western tourist wandering everywhere in a bikini and I'm dark not blonde, which normally helps.

Funnily (actually not, but.....) I was in Sutton today and wandered down into the town and was approached several times by sales people - something for Amnesty, another for disabled people, then npower and of course the Big Issue seller. I gave the usual polite 'no thank you' with a smile and was met with a right crappy look and muttering from the npower man and the guy asking for donations for the disabled was decidedly ungracious.

TBH in this country I still don't like it, but tend to shrug it off however, overseas I always feel vulnerable and edgy, as I worry about not being able to look after myself in a foreign country.
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[ZRX61]

So if I call up my CC company (citi) I can tell them I've just converted to Islam & my religion now forbids me to pay interest so go fuck yourselves?

[Adam.I]

Obviously not.
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[Clanger]