On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:48:35PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > Assuming that this opinion of Islam is based on news from the Middle > East, could it not be that the region's rulers like to keep Islam > that way to maintain their stranglehold on oil resources?
Maintaining a stranglehold on oil-resources is similiarly shortsighted as investing into whalehunting ships, to corner the whale oil market. > Islam is a fairly widespread religion after all. Perhaps we don't > hear of it elsewhere (in the same vein) precisely because those > settlements do nothing unusual to call attention to themselves? Islam is just one label. In itself insufficient to screen immigrants for. It does correlate with some traits, but it's idiotic trying keep out highly desirable immigrants just because they're Muslims. Otoh, the brain drain is coming to an end, if it hasn't already. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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