I believe you are correct BUt if you look at Bahrain you will find the hypocracy of the Muslims. They go there and the ladies immediately take off their tents when they get off planes exposing miniskirts and they gamble and dance at nightclube AND they drink.
Soot of like the decadent west.
Marketing along with high prices hurt.
I also had a service company that delt with grocery stores and would ask wine merchants if they'd noticed a turndown in sales of french wines and to a one they all said definately after 9-11 and the Iraq invasion. To a one they all said quite a large percentage drop.
Exactly: Muslims drink as much as anybody else, just not usually in public.