From: "Phil Payne" 

> I think longer term it will be good for the Arabs to actually start
> putting their money where their mouth is & it may start the development
> of what everyone knows should happen which is in effect an Arab EU. I
> would call it the AU but the Africans already have dibs on that.

They will cast their net wider than the Arabs.  The main support is coming
from the Iranians, who aren't Arabs anyway.  The Q'uran defines some very
favourable interst rates.  And why turn your back on what the Phillipines
can do?  Muslims also have the bomb.

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