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To: Dayuhan who wrote (44048)	5/13/2004 3:48:23 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793670

Dubai, Bahrain, Brunei, and the UAE are not representative of the Muslim world because their populations are minuscule. GDP per capita of Iran per CIA factbook--$6.8k GDP per capita of Libya per CIA factbook--$6.2k GDP per capita of Algeria per CIA factbook--$5.4k GDP per capita of Egypt per CIA factbook--about $4k GDP of Azerbaijan and Syria per CIA factbook--$3.7k GDP of Iraq per CIA factbook--$3.2k GDP per capita of Pakistan per CIA factbook--about $2k GDP per capita of Yemen per CIA factbook--$.8k GDO per capita of Afghanistan per CIA factbook--$.7K GDP per capita of Somalia per CIA factbook--$.6k Fareed Zakaria in his wonderful book suggests that a minimum of $10k per capita is necessary for democracy to establish even a tenuous foothold. The Muslim countries, for all intents and purposes, don't even come close. They are political and economic basket cases.