Will this drastically affect their tourist trade?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....theyre-offensive.html

With Islam threatening to impose certain restrictions which could put an end to Egypt's tourist trade, and now taking similar action in the Maldives, will this ruin these two tourist's locations and turn them into third world countries?

[tommy-h]

Hope so.

[emmie]

couldn't care less, doubt will ever visit either place, and as we seem to have any number of home grown loons, suggest that if it happens here, get your coat, because it would be time to leave.

[Craftypig]

Egypt is a third world country....

[jno]

they are third-world countries now, but decimating the tourist trade wouldn't help. Spas aren't the main reason people go to the Maldives (diving is) but they're a useful extra for people prepared to pay the sort of prices that getting there costs.

[Khandro]

All muslim dominated states will always remain 'Third World Countries', as long as their education systems remain as they are. China has just published a list of what it considers the top 500 universities in the world, and not one of them was in a muslim country.

[tommy-h]

Muslim countries were in the forefront when it came to science and arts.Just a pity we had to awaken the religious zealots in the middle ages or the whole world could be more advanced.

[anotheoldgit]

em10

/// suggest that if it happens here, get your coat, because it would be time to leave. ///

It's already happening:

http://www.dailymail....-blacked-windows.html

[mushroom25]

egypt's muslim brotherhood is correct in saying that tourists could manage without alcohol, and since many western tourists go to egypt for the cultural and historical aspects of the country, a ban on revealing beachware need not affect that market. additionally, segregated beaches may well open egypt to new markets in tourism from other muslim states.

so any changes wrought by religious considerations won't necessarily have a negative effect overall on tourism.

[tommy-h]

Whats new?Govanhill pool now closed restricted pool use for Muslims years ago.

[factor-fiction]

I think that covering up a few windows around a swimming pool, anotheroldgit, is a bit of a non-story (filled with the usual 'political correctness gone mad' nonsense) and is hardly something worth leaving the country for

[Gromit]

Khandro

// China has just published a list of what it considers the top 500 universities in the world, and not one of them was in a muslim country. //

Any list of the world's top Universities that does not include any of the following Universities, is deeply flawed:

Universiti Malaya - Malaysia
\King Saud University - Saudi Arabia
King Fahd University - Saudi Arabia
University of Indonesia - Indonesia
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Malaysia
American University of Beirut - Lebanon
United Arab Emirates University - United Arab Emirates
Universitas Gadjah Mada - Indonesia
King Abdul Aziz University - Saudi Arabia
Sultan Qaboos University - Oman
Bilkent University - Turkey
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University - Kazakhstan
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University - Kazakhstan
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) - Malaysia
Bandung Institute of Technology - Indonesia
International Islamic University Malaysia - Malaysia
King Khalid University - Saudi Arabia
Sabanci University - Turkey
Cairo University - Egypt
Hacettepe University - Turkey
Istanbul Technical University - Turkey
Istanbul University - Turkey
King Faisal University - Saudi Arabia
Koç University - Turkey
Middle East Technical University - Turkey

[tommy-h]

Many thanx khandro,-gromit just shows what bias some people have.

[Gromit]

Both these places have already been discussed before:

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1091185.html

// Turkish Baths are a very civilised and long standing tradition from the muslim world. I annually enjoy my visit to the hot springs and mud baths in that country.

The Maldives interpretation is at odds with what has been practiced for centuries throughout the old Ottoman Empire. It provably won't affect the tourist industry too much. I don't think many travel all that way for a bath.

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1085100.html

// Egypt brew some fine beers, Shakara, Luxor and Stella (Not the french one). It will be a multi million pound industry and the manufacturers of those products will resist such a move. It is possible to be a secular country and muslim as well. Turkey is a fine example. //

It depends who wins in the elections, but Egypt's population is young. They have just deposed one tyranny, they will not elect a new one. //

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// will this turn them into third world countries? //

They already are.

[tommy-h]

Gromit sounds like youve made your mind up about these countries already.

[Gromit]

Tommy-h

Maybe khandro can supply a link to the Chinese list. Cairo University seems to be a major omission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_University

[mushroom25]

the Academic Ranking of World Universities is maintained by Shanghai Rankings Consultancy (rather than "China", per-se) and is shown here.
http://www.arwu.org/
their methods of rank rating have been criticised because they are biased toward natural sciences, and English language science journals.

[Gromit]

tommy-h
I have. I have been to Egypt several times but not to the Maldives. Both places rely on tourists and both countries make a great deal of money from tourists. If laws forbidding alcohol were introduced in those places, a lot of people would lose a lot of money. It won't happen.

When I have been in Egypt, I have seen many local Egyptians drinking alcohol, enjoying alcohol and selling alcohol. That is why I do not believe any such law would have a chance of being introduced in Egypt.

[Gromit]

muyshroom25/Khandro/Tommy-h

If that is the Chinese list, Istanbul University is at 301, the University of Cairo is on the list at 401

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2011.html

[tommy-h]

Been to Egypt Jordan and Israel many many times,snorkelling and vsightseeing.Never a problem getting alchohol if requested.These countries have as much chance of going to Sharia law as Scotland has of prohibition.

[Gromit]

Three cheers for Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

The Persian alchemist who discovered alcohol in the 9th century.