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On 5/28/2024 3:43 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2024 14:41:38 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>> One major cause of anti-semitism was that both Christians and Muslims
>> considered usury, lending money at interest, to be sinful. So people
>> and kings had to borrow from Jews to finance their farms and
>> businesses and wars. It was then more convenient to have inquisitions
>> and pogroms and genocides than it was to pay them back.
> 
> Mostly correct.  Usury was charging excessive interest rates.  While
> in college in the 1960's, I was the local loan shark.  The college
> (Cal Poly, Pomona) had large number of foreign exchange students,
> mostly from Iran and Saudi Arabia.  They were all the son's (no
> daughters) of the rich upper classes in their countries.  All these
> students were granted very little pocket money by their parents on the
> assumption that if they lacked the funds to play around, they would
> spend their time studying.  It didn't work, but that was the plan. So,
> the students went to disreputable sources (like me) for borrowing
> money.  I had no trouble getting paid because I knew that the very
> last thing they wanted was for me to inform their parents of their
> son's activities.

They'd likely just sadly remark "I fell in with the wrong crowd" if 
caught (despite almost nobody ever meeting a self-declared member of 
"the wrong crowd")