The small Muslim states on the Persian Gulf and the coast of the Maghreb were supported by a unique economic model of piracy in which the ruler regularly plundered merchant ships and launched Razzias, raids, the coasts of non-Muslim lands as far off as Ireland and Iceland to capture slaves.

However, many remain suspicious of government as military rulers and politicians have plundered government budgets since independence from Britain in 1960.

The rulers who are self-made and who work the jungles of injustice, nepotism, uncountable to their embezzlements and wasting the entrust they have plundered.