MUSLIM SUCCESS STORY
Kosovo, with a predominantly ethnic Albanian Muslim population, has grabbed headlines by declaring its independence. Skeptics wonder if the new state can make it economically. But there's one Muslim country in the oft-tumultuous Balkans that's already doing things right: Albania. During the past two years Albania's government has enacted a number of exciting and eye-opening reforms, says Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.
On the economic front, Prime Minister Sali Berisha proudly points to Albania's now having the smallest government per capita in Europe:
It has enacted a 10 percent flat tax on both personal incomes and business profits.
This rate is lower than Albania's previously low maximum rates of 23 percent on individual incomes and 25 percent on profits.
Social security levies have been lowered by 31 percent.
Tariffs with European countries have been eliminated; government personnel have been cut by almost 30 percent, and the cost of procurement is down 20 percent.
Total revenues have surged from 22 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 27 percent.
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To make government more efficient, the prime minister initiated a program with Estonia -- a pioneer in this -- to bring high tech to tax collection and government contracts.
Foreign direct investment -- albeit from a low base -- is growing impressively, having tripled in 2006 and nearly doubling again in 2007.
The government has worked to make it easier to do business in Albania, instituting a "one-stop shop" for registering a business.
Education is also being emphasized, particularly by the private sector.
Since the fall of communism, Albania has been a stalwart U.S. ally, even supplying troops to help us in Iraq. Its economic and anticorruption successes are models for other Muslim nations, says Forbes.
Source: Steve Forbes, "Muslim Success Story," Forbes, April 7, 2008.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
March 31 2008, 2:30 PM
Link is required.
Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind us—immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 1 2008, 3:28 AM
THATS ANOTHER WARNING FOR YOU...
History of the Greek revolution By Thomas Gordon.
An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution By Samuel Gridley Howe
The decendants of the Albanians all Speak Albanian; though in Huydra and Spetzia there is probably not a man who doe not speak Greek, perfectly well, and who learned it from his boyhood,yet they speak Albanian with one another. And very many of the women DO NOT KNOW A WORD IN GREEK.
The Ottoman Power in Europe: Its Nature, Its Growth, and Its Decline - Page 177
by Edward Augustus Freeman - Eastern question (Balkan) - 1877 Such were the people of Souli, Christian Albanians who were never fully subdued till 1803.
This was not a conquest of christians by Turks. It was in truth a conquest of Albanians by Albanians.
The Baptist Missionary Magazine - Page 305
by Executive Committee, Baptist General Convention, American Baptist Missionary Union, Board of Managers - Baptists - 1837
The Mahometan Albanians joined the Turks, while the Christians especially the Klephts and Armatoles (in particular the Suliots)living in the SOuthern Mountains joined the Greeks...
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 1 2008, 4:49 AM
Albania's chief source of foreign revenue is organized crime. This is an example of a working Moslem economy in Europe?! Steve Forbes needs to get his head out of his ass.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 1 2008, 5:00 AM
The Albania-Kosovo-Sicilian-Washington-D.C. Heroin industry must have paid Forbes a good penny to put this bullsh.it in the mag. I mean hell, they got so much cash it's a fire hazard and if Mr. Forbes gets thrown a few mil, no biggie for them and he'll put into print almost any kind of idiocy that comes out of the spin-machine even if it does come from jihadist/mafiosi/heroin-central.........albo land. However, it will be interesting to see how that turns out in about 5 or 10 years from now, after the Serbian army has come back in and cleaned the remnants of the last KLA jihadist from the treads of their boots with a twig.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 5 2008, 6:57 PM
Oil only 8% of it's income, bullchit! The rest of it's income is investments made with oil money. Take away the oil and Islamic nations are camels and bedouins.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 7:39 AM
well foreign investment is still foreign investment , regardless if its made with oil money, gold, machinery or whatever source derived.
as for the 8% oil revenue bullsh!t or not this info can be easily proven if you bother to actually want to find out. rather than just bashing the UAE which btw is alot better than your country.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 10:08 AM
to all ignorants here...UAE just like most GCC countries will collapse in 1 week if india decides to take all the indians in the area back. westerners are the top managers and indians are doing all the other jobs. arabs do fvckall, they just sit home getting fatter and fatter being payed be the Emir for doing nothing.
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Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 12:30 PM
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EXPERT POSTER Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story April 5 2008, 6:57 PM
Oil only 8% of it's income, bullchit! The rest of it's income is investments made with oil money. Take away the oil and Islamic nations are camels and bedouins.
First you're talking out of your arse as a typical G@Y-REEK(ing of donkeysh!t) would do.
Second dont be jealous of UAE, their sheikhs can buy your trollop mothers and sisters oops greek cvnts for cheap euros, they're surely much richer than poor turkish subjects of europe, the gay-reek-ing of donkey sh!ts.
Third Christian countries are fanatic homosexual alcoholics who love to suck on pope's c0ck endlessly on every sunday or other days, in Mass...hahahah
Take away christian countries' colonial experiences, and europe was always a backwater, without looting and natural resouces, and association with it, NOT A SINGLE european country EVER rose to prominence...hahahhhahhha
homosexual oedipus complected gay-reeking-of-donkey-sh!t, shut up!
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Bhangees
Bhangees have the world's largest democracy, the world's largest number of poor people, largest number of illiterates, largest number of hungry, world leader in urine therapy, longest uninterrupted history of military defeats at hands of foreigners, being ruled by foreigners even today, most of its legal, education, military, scientific, technological, entertainment, sport and other fields of endeavour being shaped by its most recent master of 200 years - UK! India was the most loyal of britain's servants and had sent millions of 'volunteer' (servants) to serve her master Britain, and many thousand Indians died to please her master UK. This is nation of Gandhis that now wields million 'weak' armed forces and nukes, despite the above FACTS! World's largest democracy in action!
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 12:38 PM
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Hellenic Hoplites Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story April 6 2008, 10:08 AM
to all ignorants here...UAE just like most GCC countries will collapse in 1 week if india decides to take all the indians in the area back. westerners are the top managers and indians are doing all the other jobs. arabs do fvckall, they just sit home getting fatter and fatter being payed be the Emir for doing nothing.
oh shut up beggars of EU, stop beggin from European Union for a change. Name me just ONE thing that greece economy leads the world, there's dubai airport, emirates, and now etihad, gulf air etc. Emirates airline is world famous and rightly so.
beggars had better earn some money and shut their mouths, that'll improve greek economy somewhat (by a pittance of course, poor as most greeks are) hahaha
Dubai has world's tallest building, world's only 7 star hotel, The World islands, Palm, Dubai Marina is magnificent, world's largest hotel, world's largest shopping mall, wolrd's largest airport etc etc etc are being built....that's just a sample.
Greeks will be fvking their own mothers sisters or donkeys in the meanwhile....and svck pope's cock every other day....
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Bhangees
Bhangees have the world's largest democracy, the world's largest number of poor people, largest number of illiterates, largest number of hungry, world leader in urine therapy, longest uninterrupted history of military defeats at hands of foreigners, being ruled by foreigners even today, most of its legal, education, military, scientific, technological, entertainment, sport and other fields of endeavour being shaped by its most recent master of 200 years - UK! India was the most loyal of britain's servants and had sent millions of 'volunteer' (servants) to serve her master Britain, and many thousand Indians died to please her master UK. This is nation of Gandhis that now wields million 'weak' armed forces and nukes, despite the above FACTS! World's largest democracy in action!
beggar greeks economy = EU almsgiving; stop beggin EU for alms u freaking f@gs.
UAE has 300% of Greek gdp/capita, with less than half of population...without alms from EU.
go fvck your donkeys and svck pope's c0ck dry you h0mosexuals.
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Bhangees
Bhangees have the world's largest democracy, the world's largest number of poor people, largest number of illiterates, largest number of hungry, world leader in urine therapy, longest uninterrupted history of military defeats at hands of foreigners, being ruled by foreigners even today, most of its legal, education, military, scientific, technological, entertainment, sport and other fields of endeavour being shaped by its most recent master of 200 years - UK! India was the most loyal of britain's servants and had sent millions of 'volunteer' (servants) to serve her master Britain, and many thousand Indians died to please her master UK. This is nation of Gandhis that now wields million 'weak' armed forces and nukes, despite the above FACTS! World's largest democracy in action!
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 1:04 PM
Dear camel jockey
Dubai has all the above u mentioned because there are petrol money to fund them...developers bring in european and american companies (greek companies are make million in the gulf as we speak) to built all these impressive things. when they are build they put westerners to manage them because the locals are just lazy incapable peasants who get a monthly salary by the government and they dont care about anything. UAE population is 50% indians, 30% westerners and 20% local beduins who dont even get out of their homes. but there is a catch here..wtf will happen to all the developments?who's gonna occupy these building? for how long this will go on?
like i said before, leave UAE and basically ALL GCC countries to the locals and in 1 year u'll have the arabs there starving...they are absolutely useless...and u dont get me started with their sexual preferences...
sukran dudeki
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"It's a well known fact that most of the boys or girls living in south-eastern Turkey are losing their virginities to horses or dogs of their villages, so I don't think this will suprise any Turk in this forum; we are used to these kinda news..."
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 1:48 PM
i lolled at 30% westerners HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..............(there are 50k-150k westerners in a population of 4M)
i lolled at Westerners Holding "TOP JOBS" hHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA (actually arabs hold the top jobs , sorry to disapoint and if a westerner and an arab have the same job the arab is usually paid more,)
its true about the 50% indians and without this huge ( and cheap) labour force nothing can be built at the rate it is while maintaining the low costs.
but tell me, is nike chinese when all their shoes are being manufactured in china???? No , business is business you always try to cut costs.
as for the westerners (which is a very general term, there is a HUGE difference between North americans , west europeans and east europeans) are brought in for their expertise ofcourse , they are worked like mules and then when local talents can take their positions they are layed-off.
DUBAI is a modern society it has many ethnic groups, but regardless all the projects are bought/run/managed using "arab" companies "usually" owned by the SHIEKH NOT THE FUK!N "EMIR" U RETARD.
anyways, if you cant see that then your racisim and hatred truly blinds you and i hope the rest of your country is not as ignorant.
the next step will be to allow the people who helped build my country citizenship but the road to that is a long way to go.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 2:01 PM
what local talents r u talking about? ppl in the earea are used to getting their allowance doing fvckall...there no talent, no potential nothing...local companies are owned by the royal/sheik/emir/whatever families and they are run by westerners...and btw the term westerner is self explanatory retard...and dont give me the bullshyte that arabs are better payed that westerners, arabs dont even have the qualifications to do the same job...companies are obliged by law to employ locals so they will be given extra visas to bring more expats. otherwise no company would employ them, they are unbelievably lazy...who's racist? i have colleagues who are among the very very few that actually work and they say the same things..
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Quoting a Turkish forumer:
"It's a well known fact that most of the boys or girls living in south-eastern Turkey are losing their virginities to horses or dogs of their villages, so I don't think this will suprise any Turk in this forum; we are used to these kinda news..."
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 2:12 PM
that may have been the case a decade or even a few years ago, but you should ask ur "colleages" about the term or program the government initiated called "localization" and let them tell you more about it.
the arabic term for it is "Tawteen".
i am not denying the fact that european expertise is being used, while you are denying the fact that as time goes by there are more and more arabs replacing the same jobs the europeans are doing.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 2:51 PM
@ sexiest_stud_in_world
their sheikhs can buy your trollop mothers and sisters
For involving a family insult towards Landos and also being a complete retard to boot, you are warned.
You need to stop talking about homosexuality and eroticism, you seem very much interested in the topics.
Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind us—immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 3:05 PM
its difficult to call a country a success story when 20-30% of its gdp is deprived by the spendings of the kfor soldiers salaries, not including the un financed administration.
if weren't for that kosovo average income annually would have been less than 700!!! dollars.
present nominal gdp average is 2.500 dollars.
Remittances from persons living abroad account for an estimated 13 percent of GDP, and foreign assistance for around 34 percent of GDP
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 4:49 PM
@Rzecz- can u or any mod by any chance remove tat nutcase frm the Indian group?
Specially for "sexiest stud", images of Arab
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Lachit Barphukan- The brave Ahom general that repelled the Mughal invaders and protected Assamese integrity.
Kanaklata- The brave soul, who was martyred at the age of 16, in the Indian freedom movement.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 6 2008, 5:23 PM
btw the last 2 pics are not of arabs, arabs dont wear burqa's thats an afghani/pakistani/bangali/indian thing arabs wouldnt be caught dead in it. they wear the "normal" hijab.
and that turban is also from the same area.
anyways i know these pictures are not intended literally but i hope the author is able to distinguish between the cultures he is trying to insult.
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 7 2008, 3:06 AM
Quote:btw the last 2 pics are not of arabs, arabs dont wear burqa's thats an afghani/pakistani/bangali/indian thing arabs wouldnt be caught dead in it. they wear the "normal" hijab.
The Saudis do, they have moral Police making sure it stays that way
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 7 2008, 7:32 AM
bhangees, cartoons i.e. fiction is what you can do best?
let me give you REAL pictures.
as if that were not enough, bhangees also have asia's largest slum in it's financial capital - Mumbai.
And this is bhangeeland's financial CAPITAL for crying out loud, it's main airport - gateway to the entire world! Bhangeeland doesn't need any cartoons, any fiction, any demeaning, it's best damned presentation is 'bad' enough as an insult.
@the g@y-reek(ing of donkey sh!t), listen monkey lover, greeks making millions in GCC is PITTANCE, they've TRILLIONS of Euros in investment there already, heck even bhangees send back bILLIONS of Euros back to bhangeeland every year from GCC. BEGGAR gay-reeks send a paltry million? hahahha
hahha
hahaha
when will gay-reeks stop begging? stop beggin EU? Stop begging the gulf? When will you do that? We know you're donkey economy will not stop, you can still ride donkeys all day and night long, and you'll still be dirt poor. Stop BEGGING G@y-reek(ing of donkey sh!t)
One interesting caveat dear (neutral) readers: G@y-reeks and bhangistanis have one thing in common: superlatives in 'democracy' one had the earliest form of it, the other has the largest one. Is it a coincidence that both are beggars? Both beg in the gulf for money? That's a topic we leave for another thread.
To add insult to injury, the following is also true.
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Bhangees
Bhangees have the world's largest democracy, the world's largest number of poor people, largest number of illiterates, largest number of hungry, world leader in urine therapy, longest uninterrupted history of military defeats at hands of foreigners, being ruled by foreigners even today, most of its legal, education, military, scientific, technological, entertainment, sport and other fields of endeavour being shaped by its most recent master of 200 years - UK! India was the most loyal of britain's servants and had sent millions of 'volunteer' (servants) to serve her master Britain, and many thousand Indians died to please her master UK. This is nation of Gandhis that now wields million 'weak' armed forces and nukes, despite the above FACTS! World's largest democracy in action!
Re: Forbes Issue for April 7: A success Muslim Story
April 7 2008, 7:45 AM
@ Free
Please refer to Sexiest Stud's thread.
Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind us—immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."
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