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2004-05-07 Arabia

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Posted by .com 2004-05-07 3:34:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hilarious commentary. *golf clap*

Posted by someone 2004-05-07 3:41:40 AM|| 2004-05-07 3:41:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Pakistani Jamaatud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was quoted
Pakistanis aren't Arabs

The Islamic Republic News Agency reported
Iranians aren't Arabs either

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-05-07 3:53:36 AM|| 2004-05-07 3:53:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Paul - ~~Touchy~~ Touche` lol!

Posted by .com 2004-05-07 4:06:07 AM|| 2004-05-07 4:06:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Final scorecard: The muslims are big fat zeroes.

Posted by ed 2004-05-07 4:14:35 AM|| 2004-05-07 4:14:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom. I can say that I am 95 percent sure of that." .. otherwise its those bastard Somoans.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-07 4:28:13 AM|| 2004-05-07 4:28:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay, it's pretty easy to laugh at this stuff - it's self-satirizing.

OTOH, we have a real problem here. We can say it's their problem, but clearly it has spilled over to affect us & it's going to take a generation to change this.

Take: a pride/shame culture
Add: the humiliation of being outside the Core (economic / political / social / intellectual influence)

Also add: the ability to leverage Western technology for destruction

Equals: a long 15-20 yrs during which we need to use all our assets - military, but also economic, diplomatic and intellectual - both to fight the terror and also to insist that these societies join the modern world. I don't care how they do it, so long as they do it peacefully and more or less democratically.

Arabs and other Muslims aren't, on average, any stupider than Americans. They are, however, stuck in ignorance (for many) and cognitive dissonance (pretty much all of them, so far as I can tell).

Arab culture once was cosmopolitan, diverse and tolerant -- apart from the bit about conquering all unbelievers etc etc. Seriously, it's worth remembering that they weren't always cut off from the world, from intellectual exploration etc. We need to get them back as productive members of the world.

In the meanwhile, I'll keep on educating future Army officers and doing research on techie stuff that helps homeland defense .....

Posted by rkb 2004-05-07 6:09:42 AM|| 2004-05-07 6:09:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Delusional thinking such as conspiracy theorizing and death cultism lead to extinction. They are anti-survival traits indicating that evolution has bypassed this species.

Posted by virginian 2004-05-07 7:15:17 AM|| 2004-05-07 7:15:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know about you guys, but I sure wouldn't have wanted to be named "Sheik-hole-slam" in high school.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-05-07 8:43:40 AM|| 2004-05-07 8:43:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Try to figure out the difference between this and what "Gentle" was peddling here last week. And Antisemite called the board "prejudiced." Gosh how I miss those days.

Posted by BMN 2004-05-07 8:45:50 AM|| 2004-05-07 8:45:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I read in Jim Dunnigan's book Dirty Little Secrets that the Soviet tanks used by Arab countries were not air-conditioned. As a result their tank crews were overcome with heat exhaustion in (summer) wars against Israel. This led to Arab theories about Zionist rays zapping the Arab soldiers! In the Arab mind effect has not met cause.

Posted by Spot 2004-05-07 9:23:24 AM|| 2004-05-07 9:23:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 You put 3 arabs in a russian designed tank in the summer and you tell me there's no death ray. It's inside the turrent.

Posted by abu t62 2004-05-07 11:05:36 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:05:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 This goes in the Classics.

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-05-07 11:30:23 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:30:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 incapable of discovering the hidden Zionist fingers

. . .piloting all those black helicopters over the West Bank and Gaza.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-07 11:45:45 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:45:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 What a baseball team -
The all-black-helicopter-all-stars

Starting Lineup :
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistan, SS
Lead Editorialist, Yemen Times, Yemen, 2B
Lead Reporter, Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran, CF
Professor Galal Amin, Egypt, RF
Adnan Zayid Al-Kazimi, Kuwait, LF
Said Al-Subki, Saudi Arabia, 3B
Abd Al-Wahhab Adas, Egypt, 1B
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanon (West Syria), C
Hossein Sheikholeslam, Iran, DH
Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, P, Team captain

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-07 11:54:42 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:54:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, announcer.

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-05-07 11:58:08 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:58:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 What a baseball team
Yep, the first to have a perfect season - 0-164. You can't teach someone the truth when they don't have a mind open enough to receive it. If their "religion" is perfect the way it was in the 7th century, then it cannot change - change would imdicate that there is something wrong with their religion. The Jewish faith is designed to grow and adapt as human culture grows and adapts. Islam is static. Christianity, which is a subset of Judiasm, went through its period of rigidity, known as the "dark ages". Islam is now entering its dark ages. At least during the Christian dark ages, the nutcases couldn't wipe out whole cities in a flash.

As the old Chinese curse says, we live in interesting times.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-05-07 1:07:24 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-05-07 1:07:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Islam is now entering its dark ages.

A quibble - Islam entered its dark ages centuries ago. Some of the bloody-mindedness and instability we're seeing could be response of reactionary (Salafist) elements to the start of their emergence from them. The challenge is to make sure the West supplies as few of the inevitable casualties of the process as possible.

Posted by VAMark 2004-05-07 1:19:39 PM|| 2004-05-07 1:19:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 It looks like we're still safe. They still don't know about the Stargate, the dial-home device, the reverse-engineered death gliders, or the Prometheus.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-05-07 1:20:58 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-05-07 1:20:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Hey, if the Americans had been involved in any of this, they would have taken pictures and emailed them to all their buddies in the States!

Posted by John Simmins 2004-05-07 1:26:26 PM|| 2004-05-07 1:26:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 sound like they been talking to my brother in law.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-05-07 1:49:10 PM|| [http://petaenespanol.com/cinco/] 2004-05-07 1:49:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Hey Muck4Doo -- that site looks like it has a pretty good flan recipe! Gracias!! ;)

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-05-07 2:35:06 PM|| 2004-05-07 2:35:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 14 & 15 LOL!

Posted by Korora 2004-05-07 2:46:58 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-05-07 2:46:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 "This goes in the Classics."

I agree. Fred, please file this in there.

Posted by Korora 2004-05-07 4:01:47 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-05-07 4:01:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Okay. It's a classic, as much for the bezbol lineup as for the content...

Now I have this vision of Baghdad Bob hollering "Holy cow!" as Hafiz Saeed belts a sputtering black bomb into the stands...

Posted by Fred 2004-05-07 4:51:02 PM|| 2004-05-07 4:51:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 "Holy Cow! Hafix Saeed did NOT just throw a bomb into the stands, and the bomb did NOT explode, killing dozens of spectators and baby ducks! It's all an American plot!"

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-05-07 5:26:40 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-05-07 5:26:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 argh! meant "Hafiz..."

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-05-07 5:31:55 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-05-07 5:31:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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