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2003-05-14 Arabia

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-05-14 01:56 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, it's nice to see some of these Arab News articles. But I have to wonder. LGF, among others, has noted that the Arab language articles in the Arab press often take a completely different view than the English language ones that are supposed to be the translations. I'd be much happier if I knew that these articles read the same in Arabic.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-14 14:00:18|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-14 14:00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I think there's a mixture. There are Arabs, even in SA, who aren't raving lunatics, and there are apologists akin to our own Gollywood dullards, who're stupid but not drivers of terrorism. It's just that the proportions are different.

I'm wondering if the Soddies are going to rerun the Kobar Towers investigation and pretend nothing happened, it was all a momentary aberration, or if they actually are waking up, like the Indons did, if only briefly. We'll know in a month or so. Somehow I can't see them rounding up holy men and cutting their heads off, though, which is the only real cure for the disease.

On the bright side, I think the Soddies are slowly becoming aware that they're becoming an island of primitivism, surrounded by more liberal societies that haven't exploded or become Lutherans. Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Dubai are starting to contrast a little more glaringly with the Soddies and their even more primitive cousins in Yemen. Jordan doesn't have any oil and still has lots of Palestinians, so it's chock full of poor folks, but as far as openness of society goes it's got it all over SA. And now there's Iraq...

The Soddies aren't going to fold anytime soon, but they still have the choice of waking up and becoming a modern society. I actually see the biggest problem country in that part of the world - in the entire world, in fact - as Pakistan. The proportion of people there who're literally nutz is alarming.

Posted by Fred 2003-05-14 16:43:52|| 2003-05-14 16:43:52|| Front Page Top

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