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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (276326)	2/24/2006 2:02:54 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1584598

Maybe if they represented a "potential growth market" like 1.2B Chinese do, they might be bumped up a few notches on our scale. Of course, China might like American "exports" a lot more than Muslims. And when I say "exports," I mean everything from goods to culture and everything else good and bad that the Western world has to offer. Youth strive to overcome cinema ban Reuters gulfnews.com Riyadh: Young Saudis, thirsty for cinema in a country with no big screens and just the bare bones of a movie industry, are determined to drag the kingdom into the celluloid world. "In Bahrain, cinema owners say that during holidays 80 to 90 per cent of their customers are Saudis. All the video stores in Riyadh have large memberships. The Saudi people want cinema." The authorities in Riyadh allowed public screenings of children's cartoons in November, the first time films have been shown in public since the 1970s when the kingdom's powerful religious establishment took a position against cinema. Now with a native population of around 18 million, 60 per cent of whom are under 21, interest in Saudi Arabia could be huge, directors say.