So it was that SCF became known as "Ethical Investing" and Western and Muslim financiers began lecturing the world that the fraud and abuse of the financial markets, such as the Enron debacle and now the sub-prime securitization meltdown, were all driven by the desire for forbidden gain through interest and gambling.
Finally, money managers who cannot be relied upon to maintain the highest internal ethical standards should simply not be permitted to offer their services to the investing public.