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Originally Posted by zaidshaban
HansTWN - i think you have a wrong idea and info about the arab world, and this is not the islam world we are talking about Middle east is arab world, and we have people from both religions islam or christian god bless them both, maaan we read, party, movie and we deal with banks :-) and you are talking about a few people who is religioned from both parties who would not take an finance or intrest on finance, we are more than 250 million and we do every thing ;-)
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Actually, muslims in Indonesia, Malaysia, and India far outnumber you! And Iran, Turkey, and the countries in Central Asia are not Arabs.
I was talking about governments and certain sections of society that do try to influence what the rest is supposed to be doing. Just like the radical Christians in the US which have made sure that network TV, beach wear, famous personalities behavior and other things are strictly controlled. And something so harmless as "baywatch" is considered racy.
I was not suggesting that this is restricted to Muslims. But in general religion has a much greater influence in the Muslim world than for Christians and Buddhists. You will agree with me on that (in Europe probably 90% of the people go to church not more than once a year -- on Christmas, if then). I have been to Egypt, Jordan, Tunesia, and Algeria. I am not quite the "babe in the woods" you imagine me to be. Well, give it to me straight, what percentage of Muslims would find "Lady Chatterly's lover" acceptable? What do you think? Wouldn't they have to cut out a significant portion of their offerings?
I was just suggesting that it also maybe actually a matter of Amazon's cultural sensitivity that they opt not to sell. I don't see this as a criticism of the Muslim world, to each his own. If the AT&T argument was the only problem, why don't they sell in Singapore? Government's attitudes will definitely play a big role. And the question of why they have no agent in the Middle East still remains, there is a reason they decided not to. Which comes back to our original discussion.