Someone gets screwed to cater for religious beliefs in order to "try" and account for market inflation etc. Said it before.
Perhaps i'm being dense, but i still have no idea what you're saying. Who gets screwed?
It being a religious need is not a problem, its only a problem if it actually is causing issues, aside from making some people feel uncomfortable.
Any form of religious reason is a pretty average reason at best. Why change what works and applying a religious need to everyone? With the associated financial issues it seems rediculous to even consider.
Religious reasons, or religious based needs, are not average, good or bad. It depends on what are those needs. In other words, religious needs can vary from human sacrifices to just food made in a certain way. So each one should be judged on its own. You're looking at religion in a very narrow and negative way, which for the most part is unjustified.
It annoys me that minorities make demands.
Not really sure how i can respond to this.
So, i'll just make sure i understand you correctly first. Do you mean to say, that you actually think that minorities should not feel so comfortable as to be making demands just like anybody else?
Do you mean to say minorities should be worried about the fact that they are a minority, and only very politely ask for their rights and hope that the majority would be so kind as to treat them like they treat themselves?
Or do you think they should have some manners and not even ask at all from the start?
Not that this isn't actually the case in may places today in the world, however you're not only okay with that, but you would be and are bothered whenever the opposite happens. When in a country, a minority is treated like everybody else and are allowed to make demands and calls etc...
Why are they in a position to make them.
Because they are citizens of that country, may be?
Could UK citizens make a demand that they take things the way they are?
Could or couldn't is one thing, should or shouldn't is another. If you're asking me the first, sure may be they can, not really positive. Though i don't think in the UK a lot of things like that could happen.
If the second, they shouldn't, because its none of their business. They take loans in a certain way, they supposedly like it. Others don't, and option is being called for to be made which ALSO will be made available to those other citizens which were supposedly already happy (which of course isn't actually necessarily the case, at least not with all people).
Why on earth would they have a right to say "No, we don't accept this. Force them Muslims to do things just like we do, in our own preferred way"?
They don't have a right to that, unless of course, if this was going to hurt them in some way.
If majorities catered for everyone we'd have a huge mess and thats the way it seems to be heading.
Quite the contrary, if majorities treated minorities fairly and catered for their needs when and if possible, the world be a much better place.
It will cause student loan chaos. How the hell would you go about explaining this sort of thing to non-muslims? What if non-muslims do not accept the terms? What if the market drops and because they have made a contract at a fixed addition for interest that would be accrued? Seems ever so problematic to me even if everyone can use it.
Lets make this really simple. If such consequences or others were bound or likely to happen, i'm sure the banks are already aware of that, and thus will not be able to provide the service based on this ground, which would be understandable.
Other than that, there are not really any other grounds to oppose this except because of bigotry and intolerance like i already said.
Complexity to facilitate religious needs isn't exactly sound logic.
Not sure what you mean.
I don't really have any less respect for muslims than i do for any other religion and I have absolutely no care in the world for their special needs. They are not my problem and should no be anyone elses. Thats what annoys me most other than fincances.
I know you don't have any less respect for Muslims, but your problem is with religion in general.
Not caring for the special needs is one thing (although i disagree with that) and opposing is another. You're not just not caring, you have a problem with Muslims making a call in the first place for their special needs to be met.
The poor people who have to reorganise and then sell student loans to accomodate a minority. In practice how the hell would this work? I've considered the finances all day and it seems that no matter what the people with their sharia beliefs are going to have issues so why even bother?
Like i said, if its going to cause damage, or if its not worth it, i'm sure banks won't bother with this. If you're trying to say they will due to pressure or something like that (which i don't think would happen), then they shouldn't. Assuming that there would actually be such damages.
I'd love to hear a reasonable reason for overcomplicating a student loan system to incorporate religious beliefs. The lunacy of the previous sentence cannot be emphasized enough.
Nobody is incorporating a religious belief, its catering for the needs of a certain group, pure and simple.
