ABSTRACT
Excessive wealth in Muslim society on the one hand, and deprivation of power and privilege on the other, thwart the move to the ideal, we saw in the last chapter. Other contemporary problems which distract from the ideal are discussed in this chapter. The excess of wealth in society creates the need for redefinitions among Muslims, employer and employee, local and non-local, nourishing the concept of ethnicity. Risking a certain amount of repetition we deploy data from Arab society-this time the UAE-to analyse ethnicity. Also discussed will be the unsatisfactory situations of Muslim women-far removed from the ideal-and Afghan refugees.
