I am all for finding the untapped niche and exploiting it, but putting avarice before common sense is never a good idea.

Almulla heads the Almulla Hospitality Sharia hotel chain, which intends to build 150 new Sharia hotels in the next five years, forty of which are planned in Europe.

The new hotels will not serve alcohol or pork products, and will have separate swimming pools, as well as prayer areas.

Mohmood Al Koffi, of the REEF investment firm in Dubai, says that just like there are people who don’t like hte smell of tobocco, there are those who don’t like the smell of alcohol. “Most hotels in the Middle East show the direction to Mecca, and European hotels are begining to do the same. When the Mariott hotels can have bibles in the room, Muslim hotels also have a Koran.” He thinks the sharia hotel market has a future, also in Europe.

Do we really want to be encouraging 6th century behavior in our modern countries? Remember, we’re not talking Medieval Times theme restaurants here - we are talking about enforced segregation of men and women and the adoption of a culture that has openly admitted to wanting to destroy us.

In the case of Sharia banking and now Sharia hotels, I can honestly say I am against this free market decision. It is putting profits ahead of safety and common sense. When your home is infested with vermin, you don’t leave food out for them - you call in an exterminator to gas them into oblivion.

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