Actor Omar Sharif: "The Middle east Will Never Be Democratized"

FOX News, MEMRI-TV ^ | 6/9/08 | FOX News

[virgil]

He played the title role in a movie about St. Peter. I was wondering if he was christian (or was)

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I lived in America for a long time. Only 10% of all Americans have a passport. In other words, 90% never left America," said Sharif. "They don't know anything. Americans are ignorant."

Actually, Americans are just happy with America. It isn't a backward pest-hole like so many Muslim nations and therefore it's inhabitants don't celebrate the day of their adulthood by immediately applying for a passport out of their country like so many Muslims. Something many people in other countries don't understand is just how big the US is. In Europe, a 2 hr drive gets you from Munich to Paris, Amsterdam, maybe Zurich. Here, a 2 hr drive gets you to work. This is what many non-Americans mean by travel - scurrying from one tiny "nation" to another. And this prevents ignorance? Who knew

[infowarrior]

Keep in mind, also, that Arabs are not among the great civilizations of the past, Saladin notwithstanding.

Saladin, notwithstanding, or not, was actually a Kurd...

the infowarrior

[infowarrior]

I thought Iraqis were, as well. Babylon was a Persian city wasn’t it???

Originally/ No, it was Babylonian, although it was later conquered and absorbed into the Persian Empire. Were the Babylonians of yore Arab? Not really known...

the infowarrior