That's a load of bologney. The enginers and architects that have built most of Dubai's modern architecture are in fact westerners... The muslims that do work on the contruction do the heavy lifting, operate cranes but did not do any the planing for most of what you see around that country today...
Do you even understand what you're saying? Westerners didnt wake up one day and say "Hey, lets go to Dubai and develop it, spending our own money."
Dubai Muslims fortified what was desert and worked hard to develop it. The Western people saw job opportunities in Dubai, an opportunity to make money and live in high standard, hence the immigration.
Muslims created the jobs that non-Muslims applied to take. Of course many Muslims also took those jobs.
This is an interesting article highlighting even further development projects in an already highly developed and technological city of Dubai:
Dubai construction boom powers ahead
Dubai has always been a building site, but there are more large projects under construction now than ever before. This is a city in transition to a bigger future.
The biggest trade show in Dubai this year will not be the huge Gitex computer exhibition, but the Index furniture and interior design show that opens this Wednesday.
For construction, and not IT, is the boom industry in the Middle East today. Index will occupy all eight halls of the, appropriately enough, just refurbished Dubai International Exhibition Centre, as well as two temporary halls and the Al Multaqa Ballroom.
'Furniture and interior products imported into the Gulf rose by six per cent last year and 10% in 2000,' said organizer Joe Berger of dmg Index Exhibtions. 'Within the past 10 years this exhibition has grown six fold.'
There are two factors explaining the current construction boom: high oil prices and demographics.
The increase in oil revenues in the GCC states, up from $61 billion in 1998 to a current level of $150 billion per annum explains where the money is coming from. From the demand side, one of the world's fastest growing and youngest populations is pushing construction forward.
At the present time, the centre of the construction boom is undoubtedly Dubai. In the hotel sector alone there are plans to build 150 more hotels over the next five to seven years, expanding the number of hotel rooms from 20,000 in 1990 to 55,000.
Other new projects underway in Dubai are the $2 billion Dubai International Financial Centre, a huge office complex rumored to include a major skyscraper; the $2.5 billion expansion of the Dubai International Airport; the $3 billion Palm Island project; $1.6 billion Dubai Marina leisure and residential development; $1.6 billion Festival City mixed-use development; further phases of the Dubai Internet City and Media City; and the new Convention Centre at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
In addition, Emaar Properties is developing the Emirates Hills/Emirates Lakes into a massive residential new town, and Majid Al Futtaim has a massive shopping mall and indoor ski resort under construction on a nearby site.
Around the Gulf region shopping malls are under construction all over the place. But for now the focus of building activity is Dubai, and all these new offices, homes and hotels will need furniture and interior design. No wonder Index will outshine Gitex this year in Dubai.
http://www.ameinfo.com/16488.html
And you seem to have forgotten Malaysia, a developed Muslim country, along with many ares of Pakistan. Pakistan was cited by Harvard researches as the model of economic growth in the 1960s, and in the financial year 2005, Pakistan's growth was the second highest among in the world, first being China. Pakistani Muslims are working hard to develop their country. One example is a project in the city of Lahore, Defense area phase 8, where construction is going to develop that area in highly technical housing, infastructure, sanitation, technologically advanced theme parks, very high standard of living, etc. All this is going throughout Pakistan and Insha'Allah Pakistan will be fully developed soon.
Theres other examples of similar development in Muslim countries, particularly in UAE and Indonesia. You need to drop the hate for Muslims and think logically.
Dude you must be living in another dimension because I know for a fact that just in the U.K most muslims live by leeching off wellfare... Are there some that do work for a living? Sure there are but are few by comparison. And where I live most do not work hard for a living at all. They are instead mantained by some foreign overseas interest which is probably the same who built their mosque just as they have built most mosques around the world nowadays Saudi Arabia...
Dude, I live in UK, you live in Purto Rico, you know wot for a fact? Do you know, UK and other Western countries offer scholarship schemes for international countries, where the top students in a foreign country get a scholarship to work and study in UK, EU or US. They skills of these top students are utilised in economic development, and many of those top students are Muslims. As for other foreign students, Muslim and non-Muslim, to study in UK they have to pay very big fees, which they work to earn money to pay, plus they need to pay for living expenses such as accommodation, bills, food etc. The University fees alone are between £8,000-£24,000 a year, a lot of money, convert them to your currency to see how much they are. And thats the fees alone, excluding any living expenses. Muslims work very hard to pay them and study as well. Plus more people=more potential customers for businesses, Muslims pay for services which go towards economic development and add to a wider multiplier effect, that is one reason why Western countries have immigration, which means more man power, work power, and consumer spending, plus attracting the top students from around the world.
As for your area, I dont know why they came, but ever thought that they need to pay for living expenses and food, paying local businesses for their services= more cash flow.
My advise to you is, approach them in a polite manner, dont make it seem like they're not welcome. Imagine if you move to a predominately white area and some local whites approach you with angry forwns and demand to know why you're here, what you're doing here.....not very pleasent. Ask them in a polite and fitting manner as to their motivations, although i dont see any hidden agenda for their presense.
I know what they are but in despite of it all it all looks like is intended to avoid the locals and other working inmigrant groups at all costs especially when in combination to the other facts I've brought to bear on this thread and you and just about all your fellow muslims here consistenly ignore...
We're not ignoring you, read my last paragraph and read Woodrow's post. They are not trying to avoid locals, they need time for people to get into the Mosque for Friday prayer. Prayers are held in a congregation, and Friday prayers usually attract a lot of people, because of the importance put i congregation prayer/praying in a group, in unity.
