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Is one allowed to open a bank account in a bank that follows Islamic customs and poses itself as Islamic banking? The card they offer would be not usable for purchases in stores that are designated for the sole purpose of using alcohol, gambling facilities, no interest, etc.

Would having their card be following their ways and assur?

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    – mbloch
    Commented Sep 12 at 15:21
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    Are Jewish people who live in islamic countries not using banks that follow sharia?
    – Y DJ
    Commented Sep 12 at 15:48
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    What "way" is one following? Not gambling or purchasing wine with a credit card?
    – Rabbi Kaii
    Commented Sep 12 at 16:18
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    I really can't see an issue here. Islam is not "avodah zarah"; the issue would maybe kinda sorta be "avoid the ways of the non-Jews", but I just don't see this as one of them. That's defined essentially as something you'd only be doing to try and fit in with the non-Jews. Look, for centuries of coexistence we did kosher slaughter with the animal facing the qibla (i.e. the direction of Mecca), if that's what the locals demanded. The meat's still kosher. And this banking thing sounds a lot more kosher than that.
    – Shalom
    Commented Sep 12 at 17:30
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    Funding terror or anti-semitism might be a bigger issue though...
    – Al Berko
    Commented Sep 13 at 12:58

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