![]() |
previous1next
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete (1947) |
| Edie Adams, Musician (1927) |
| Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1850) |
| Akon, Musician (1973) |
| Tom Allen, Politician (1945) |
| Ellen Barkin, Actress (1955) |
| Gina Carano, Actress (1982) |
| Peter Garrett, Musician (1953) |
| Lukas Haas, Actor (1976) |
| Lord Halifax, Politician (1881) |
| Fred Davis, Celebrity (1998) |
| Ralph Ellison, Author (1994) |
| Edna Ferber, Novelist (1968) |
| Yasunari Kawabata, Novelist (1972) |
| David Lean, Director (1991) |


