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Originally Posted by Taf
The credit crunch has stopped, or vastly reduced, lines of credit for existing businesses or for those wishing to buy/start businesses by loans from "western" banks. But sharia law "loans" from Middle Eastern banks are apparently still very available for muslims.
And generally AFAIC halal meat is sold below what "western" butchers would consider a decent profitable price.
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There aren't many consumer/small business Muslim banks in France. You have to consider that these are often interest free loans so they are difficult to come by, even for Muslims. French itself doesn't have a big credit culture either.
If they are sold below a decent profitable price then how many the Halal butchers afford to keep going and not the 'Western' butchers anyway? They have to pay the same rent and presumably have a lower customer base than those who went out of business. What are they doing different?