Growing Number Of Muslims On Wall Street Are Bridging Two Worlds

The New York Times:

NAIEL IQBAL’S co-workers couldn’t figure him out. Ms. Jukaku, a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, prayed in her Manhattan apartment. He’d just started at a Midtown Manhattan hedge fund — the kind of elite enclave where overachievers in button-downs go to make a few hundred grand before heading off to Harvard Business School. But Mr. Iqbal, 27, a graduate of the Wharton School, wasn’t acting like a typical finance guy. He didn’t introduce himself around the office. Nor did he grab lunch with the other traders.

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Comments

[JackieSmith890]

01:19 AM on 04/18/2012

muslims aren't bettering our financial industry. how would they do that? as if we need wonderful moral muslim values on wall street. great things like child marriage, polygamy, and wife-beating. as if the males that work there aren't amoral enough. and there should be absolutely NO sharia-compliant finances in american companies.

sharia-compliant finances have to be halal. that means no alcohol, no pork, no intoxicants of any kind. these are big american industries. i don't want sharia law imposed on americans through finances. this is called stealth jihad.

if these people want to waste time during the day by praying or want to avoid touching dirty, shameful women, they shouldn't work in america. move to saudi arabia and have a good life.

[rosiebag]

08:01 AM on 04/16/2012

Pork Bellies,anyone

[farmilyman]

02:57 AM on 04/16/2012

Diet drinks have apartame which causes a host of health problems but was pushed through the FDA by no other than Rumsfeld.........look it up!

[John Shuck]

01:29 AM on 04/16/2012

Diet Coke is bad for you. It has 60 calories per serving and contains artificial sweeteners that glow in the dark.

[Taylor Root]

07:34 AM on 04/16/2012

The acids in the drink also harm tooth enamel. I love diet Coke and Pepsi but have stopped drinking it due to the health effects.

I've read countless articles regarding artificial sweeteners and their effects on our metabolic processes.

More and more of them see to agree that they are harmful. Mostly recently a stud claimed that it simulates the effects of low blood sugar on appetite making the user more hungry and apt to overeat than usual.

[parrotfish]

09:42 PM on 04/15/2012

They maybe drinking diet coke but, like their alcohol drinking peers are running the same ponzi schemes, feeding the vampire squids and have no accountability so in the next financial crash they will be just more responsible than the previous one.

[BrockDock]

06:14 PM on 04/15/2012

"The consultant’s plea, under the subject line “Avoiding Alcohol and Opposite Gender Handshakes in the Corporate World,” received a vast range of responses..........
On the matter of handshaking, some urged the consultant to shake hands with women when prompted, but not to initiate handshakes himself. Others suggested adopting “a tactful technique to avoid” shaking hands, such as pretending to be sick or wearing gloves."

*FACEPALM*
Sigh @ this total bullshit. "Lie and pretend you're sick to avoid shaking a woman's hand". I can't emphasize enough how little respect I have for this religion.

[Stavo]

05:22 PM on 04/15/2012

One day.....after that poor mooslum has lost every penny he ever had.....he will show back up to the office....finally introduce himself, ask everyone how they are doing, then touch off the homicide vest he had secreted onto his body. Ever wonder why they stay away from the ones they have to work around....because one day they will end up killing them.....for Ollie Allah Alla.

[Janzee12000]

03:24 PM on 04/15/2012

An interesting article. My take, it would be quite ironic that the very religion that many feel is trying to destroy this country might provide insight to bettering our finance industry and produce long term benefits for our economy (and the world economy)...

[Malcontent21]

03:22 PM on 04/15/2012

The heads at fox news are going to explode I imagine their all out blitz coverage will be about how President Obama has a secret alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood and is allowing radical Islamist take over our financial institutions.

[sonny parker]

04:55 PM on 04/15/2012

probably true...Muslim=nobama

[sf1000000]

08:56 PM on 04/15/2012

Sonny, anyone tell you that you are paranoid?

[billyknows2]

03:04 PM on 04/15/2012

Probably Zimmermans fault!

[mj1247]

01:54 PM on 04/15/2012

how do republicans feel about this?

[Willie Qwit]

01:58 PM on 04/15/2012

Great question. I personally don't buy into the hate mongering Republicans peddle about Muslims, a religion of peace (except for the whacks but all religions have whackos).

I'm rather surprised Fox News hasn't jumped on this. Maybe they will now.

[SweetLemonPie]

07:00 PM on 04/15/2012

Who cares?

[E V]

11:43 AM on 04/15/2012

I really admire this about Muslims. They take their faith seriously and don't bend to social pressures or expectations to partake in things simply to "fit in". I admire any person who manages this really.

[French Toast]

12:18 PM on 04/15/2012

Know who else takes their faith seriously? Bombers. Muslim and Christian alike. You must respect those people a ton.

[BrockDock]

06:16 PM on 04/15/2012

Yeah because there's so many Christian bombers around, love how you had to add in "Christian alike" just to balance it out regardless of how little logic there is.....and no I'm not even Christian, I just find doing stuff like that to be spineless and pathetic.

Anyway, I agree that people who refuse to bend their religion to social pressures should be "respected". I do not respect people who follow laws (i.e. Sharia) that are based around fabricated 1300 year old superstitious documents.

[E V]

08:28 PM on 04/15/2012

Not sure what bombers have to do with anything. They would generally be called fanatics regardless of their belief system. But a person who has conviction in their beliefs is to be admired. It isn't easy to adhere to a belief system that puts who at odds with social norms.
It's much, much easier to cherry pick the parts of faith that are easy to follow and that apply to other people and practice those. I would argue that these bombers you want to talk about fall into this category. Ignoring one facet of their religion in favor of another that suits them.
The world would be a better place if more people were pious.

[mosuro]

05:22 PM on 04/15/2012

Not all muslims, only pious muslims like pious christians.