Bahrain is the second country after Oman to publicly state that it won’t make it to the 2010 Gulf single currency target. The crown prince said in a comprehensive interview with McKenzie Quarterly (also reported in Arabic in Al-Waqt yesterday) that the main economic factors – inflation metrics, jobs, fiscal policies, transparency, etc – are …
Day: January 30, 2007
MP Ibrahim Busandal, the Asalah MP, wants to introduce mandatory Islamic taxation (zakat). Here are his justifications for doing so:
We have enough crazies in Islam already, we don’t need one more!
Z’haaaaaaaaayweeeeeeeeeeeee For an explanation of this extremely important word, please click here.