Non-Muslims in the UK Turning to Islamic Banks

While conventional banks due to tangled problems of financial crisis, the Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB) instead flooded customers. According to IBB, since the financial crisis hit the banking industry, the number of IBB customers increased by five percent, including the customers who pembiyaan sector rose to 13 percent. Among the new customers, many non-Muslim customers.

Commercial Director of IBB, Sultan Choudhury said, people are now switching to Islamic banks because the banks have based Islamic better protection from the effects of the credit crunch affects conventional banks. IBB, Choudhury added, did not take the interest-based loans from other banks and has investments based on high-quality assets.

"That means, the bank concerned to avoid the possibility of instability as experienced by the big banks today," said Choudhury.

He added that the bank's customers are now looking for a financial institution security of their money and their choices now are banks Islamic based. No wonder the number of customers increased IBB lately, including customers of non-Muslims.

Customer non-Muslims turn to IBB, as conventional banks do not provide opportunities for housing loans for financing during a crisis occurs. And IBB will launch a loan scheme for purchase ruman based on the principles of Islamic pembiyaan.

In addition, said Choudhury, a non-Muslim customers believe that the banks offering Islamic-based business concepts are more ethical. "Investment-based businesses sharia, prohibits investment in sectors-business sektir was illegal. For example, investments in companies related to gambling, pornography, cigarettes and other commodities contrary to Islamic values," said Choudhury.