Ethics

Worldnutdaily's Anti-Muslim Hysteria

By Ed Brayton

You have to read this absolutely absurd article at the Worldnutdaily full of hysterical warnings about "Sharia-compliant insurance." They've got their panties all bunched up over a subsidiary of AIG marketing insurance to Muslims - and so soon after we bailed them out, which for some mysterious reason makes it even worse than they imagine it already is.

After American International Group Inc, or AIG, reached two major bailout agreements totaling $152.5 billion in taxpayer dollars, the company is stepping up its dealings with Islamic finance by offering Shariah-compliant homeowners insurance to the U.S. - outraging critics over AIG's support of a "discriminatory ideology, that is against equality, and that is against liberty."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).