"They have used drugs, they have used alcohol, they have used prostitution and all kinds of other methods which are all forbidden within Islam, " he went on.
Today, the debate is academic because there is broad consensus that interest of all kinds is forbidden by Shariah.
And finally, what could be more cool than knowing that, for westerners, only a short while ago, all this was forbidden territory?
Otherwise, all officials may be forbidden to talk to or communicate with him, rendering him commercially ineffective.
Check this out, in the ornate, marble lobby there is a sign that reads: Dear Guests: Wearing Bath Robes in All Public Areas is Forbidden.
And all photos of women are forbidden, as is accessing websites with content deemed inappropriate.
In all fairness, many are forbidden to do so as a matter of corporate policy.
And even if America pumped all the oil trapped in forbidden areas, it would not attain the volumes necessary to dictate world prices.
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.
At first, people kept phoning, to make sure that Nita was not too depressed, not too lonely, not eating too little or drinking too much. (She had been such a diligent wine drinker that many forgot that she was now forbidden to drink at all.) She held them off, without sounding nobly grief-stricken or unnaturally cheerful or absent-minded or confused.
But we all know there's one thing forbidden in public office: We must avoid a quid pro quo.
Under U.S. antidumping law, Dow Corning and all other consumers of silicon metal were forbidden from participating formally in the proceedings that lead to the imposition of the duties.
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"All the Easties finally wanted to see what this forbidden land had to offer, " Formanek said, explaining the tsunami of people who flooded to the wall, for years a grim strip of watchtowers, barbed wire and menacing East German border guards with shoot-to-kill orders.
"These cartels for cathode ray tubes are 'textbook cartels': they feature all the worst kinds of anticompetitive behaviour that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe, " said EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia.
Given the chance to try whale in Tokyo, I said okay, at the same time experiencing all the familiar feelings that go along with eating a forbidden thing: guilt, a little giddiness, a pinch of dread.
This in a city and at a time where all forms of violence or injury or hot-headedness are strictly forbidden.
With 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphic works and film clips, the exhibition traces three successive waves of artistic fascination with the twisted allure of the dark side: vampires, witches, demons, ghosts, ghouls, the forbidden, fantastic and occult the satanic in all its seductive, often erotic forms.
The 1956 sci-fi thriller Forbidden Planet was the first major motion picture to feature an all-electronic film score a soundtrack that predated synthesizers and samplers.
By 1838, when he returned to Britain, Macaulay's reforms had led to the setting up of 40 English medium schools in Bengal which were open to all, quite revolutionary in a society "where lower castes had been strictly forbidden to study".
He somehow managed to get some porno magazines, which the military had forbidden in those days, and later, during the World Cup, he gathered all his savings and bought a color TV, the first one in town.
All the right elements are in place: the lovable outlaw, the repugnant bad guy, the forbidden love affair.
The potentially negative consequences of the dam, including dramatically rising levels of water pollution, deadly landslides, loss of species and relocation of millions of Chinese, were all known to those involved in the planning of the dam for decades, yet open discussion was forbidden.
And those 11, 000 employees whose 401K funds were invested exclusively in Enron -- and who were forbidden by Enron's own rules from diversifying -- today have no retirement plan at all.
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