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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (43941)	5/12/2004 3:38:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793649

If I said suggested that oil leads to Islamism, that would be foolish, indeed. My suggestion is that excluding Muslims and/or Arabs would be economic suicide. Norway is a big exporter of oil and gas, but it's nowhere to be found on BP's list of the world's proven oil reserves. Saudi Arabia - 25 percent - Muslim Arabs Iraq - 10.7 percent - Muslim Arabs, mostly (also Kurds) United Arab Emirates - 9.3 percent - Muslim Arabs Kuwait - 9.2 percent - Muslim Arabs Iran - 8.6 percent - Muslim Arabs Venezuela - 7.4 percent - not Muslim, not friendly to US Russia - 5.7 percent - Russia per se isn't Muslim, nor Arab United States - 2.9 percent - that's us Libya - 2.8 percent - Muslim Arabs Nigeria - 2.3 percent - partly Muslim, not Arab