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| Renowned Syrian Poet "Adonis": The Arabs are Extinct |
| 2006-03-25 |
| From our friends at MEMRI: please visit the link for the full interview on Dubai TV. Another frank Muslim speaks out. I've just included his final remarks. Worth the full read. Like the Sumerians, Greeks, and Pharaohs; If the Arabs are So Inept They Cannot Be Democratic, External Intervention Will Not Make Them So The poet Ali Ahmad Sa'id (b. 1930), known by his pseudonym "Adonis," a 2005 candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, left his native Syria for Lebanon in the 1950s following six months' imprisonment for political activity. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. from St. JosephUniversity in Beirut; in 1985, he settled in Paris, where he now works as a writer and literary critic. Among other occupations, he has edited the modernist magazine Mawaqif (Viewpoints), and translated some of the great French poets into Arabic. The following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian poet "Adonis," aired on Dubai TV on March 11, 2006. "The Muslims today - forgive me for saying this - with their accepted interpretation [of the religious text], are the first to destroy Islam, whereas those who criticize the Muslims - the non-believers, the infidels, as they call them - are the ones who perceive in Islam the vitality that could adapt it to life. These infidels serve Islam better than the believers." The scales are tippingÂ…. More cartoons, more condemned Christians, more ripping off the masks and revealing Islamism for what it is. WeÂ’ve got to keep the foaming nuts rampaging in the streets, in full media view, awhile longer yet. Keep forcing them to face the mirror. More and more muslim intellectuals like Adonis will hopefully help poke them along to sanity. |
| Posted by:Thinemp Whimble2412 |
| #6 That's a great strategery I agree, NS. lol |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-03-25 15:13 |
| #5 Anonymoose: Do you work with anyone with "Arabic" or Iranian origins? Many celebrate their abandonment of Islam. World Net Daily once reported over 300,000 converts to Christianity among the Iranian-American community. I don't trust WND, but that statistic could be accurate. |
| Posted by: Listen to Dogs 2006-03-25 15:07 |
| #4 All that is needed is a "safe country" in the region, where a community of ex-Moslem ex-pats can assemble and live in relative safety, away from the Moslem enforcers. A secular country, in a centralized location, with a variety of ethnic groups, large enough to absorb an influx of high value immigrants, under the protection of an out of region superpower. That's a great strategery. Let me think... |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-03-25 13:43 |
| #3 In the past few days, I've noted the flight of conversion away from Islam to mostly Christianity. However, I suspect that the Arabic intelligensia are starting to seriously consider departing en masse. All that is needed is a "safe country" in the region, where a community of ex-Moslem ex-pats can assemble and live in relative safety, away from the Moslem enforcers. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-25 13:37 |
| #2 LTD I agree, they really are supremicist. Interesting that the lowest of society wind up adopting that position. For example, I find it hard to believe that some uneducated, unemployed skinhead is, by any reasonable measure of a civilized society, in any way superior to me. Yet he firmly believes he is. Similarly, a society that has no significant cultural, medical or scientific accomplishments in the modern world, that does not question itself, that celebrates the death of others as some sort of victory (and even of other arabs) -- well, I find it hard to believe there is anything superior about that society. Yet they believe they are. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-03-25 12:33 |
| #1 English speaking Indians don't claim an English identity. So why would Arabic speaking Assyrians claim Arab status? Or Berbers? Or Phonecians? Or Egyptians? Or Sudanese? The answer is that Arabs are a supremacist race. The fact that they are near the bottom of the human pool, doesn't deter their arrogance. Objectivity dictates: those who identify themselves as Arabs contribute absolutely nothing to the philosophical-technological basis of global culture. The suicide-bomb belt is the only innovation, that an Arab has produced (even there, Sri Lankan Tamils claim first use).Every idea that an "Arab" claims as a heritage notion, is pilfered from the dynamic, non-plundering states. I would rather step in dog crap than visit any country run by the supremacist parasites who raise the "Arab" flag of shame. I would only enter one of those basket cases, as a harsh, kick-ass occupier with a hair triggered rifle and the will to use it pre-emptively. |
| Posted by: Listen to Dogs 2006-03-25 05:33 |