Othman Abu-Sahnun has set up a site seeking to expose the reality behind the Murabitun movement that places great emphasis on 'The Return of the Gold Dinar.' Kent Willis provides some interesting commentary as does Julian Dibbell*.
Some of the things that they advocate I find quite repulsive. See, for example, the latter part of this article**.
* Issue 10.01, Jan 2002, "In Gold We Trust"
** "Fatwa concerning the Islamic prohibition of using paper-money as a medium of exchange" - GRANADA, 18th of August of 1991.
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