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Why is the Arab world so easily offended? (Fouad Ajami)
Washington Post ^ | September 14, 2012 | Fouad Ajami

Posted on 09/15/2012 2:24:20 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 09/15/2012 2:24:22 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

...because they are so easily lead


2 posted on 09/15/2012 2:26:14 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: neverdem

Pretty decent article actually.


3 posted on 09/15/2012 2:31:33 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: neverdem
Modernity requires the willingness to be offended

Mohammad says Sorry if we offend you Jews and Christians but its the times we live in


4 posted on 09/15/2012 2:32:58 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: neverdem
INBREEDING. Darn it, it just has to be said at some time!!

Fully half of all registered marriages in Pakistan are between FIRST COUSINS. Men marrying their nieces is not at all unusual!

This has been going on with the Sunnies for hundreds of years. Not quite so much with the Shia, closer to a quarter of the marriages are between first cousins.

Think about it. Your wife and you share grandparents. Think about that. Now, consider that those grandparents also share grandparents!!

Family trees like telephone poles. Generation upon generation, all the way to Esau and Ishmael.

Why do we wonder that they are so easily led into madness?

5 posted on 09/15/2012 2:33:44 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Longbow1969

i didn’t read the full article.
but i was going to say,
that even for the Washington Post,
i have rarely seen 2 paragraphs
so completely full of factual errors.


6 posted on 09/15/2012 2:33:49 PM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: neverdem

Because they have nothing about which to be proud.


7 posted on 09/15/2012 2:34:25 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: neverdem

bookmark


8 posted on 09/15/2012 2:34:38 PM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: neverdem

Because offense-taking is such a useful political tool in a postmodern victimocracy?


9 posted on 09/15/2012 2:35:50 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (Life, liberty, property, and the means to defend them.)
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To: neverdem
Remember take away oil and the entire Islamic world produces less then Finland! This no knock on the Finns, there just aren't a lot of Finns! But there are a lot of Muzzies!
10 posted on 09/15/2012 2:38:06 PM PDT by Reily (l)
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To: neverdem
OK, there was this Shi'ite muslim with a peg-leg and a Sunni with a wooden eye. Hey, stop me if you heard this one! So they hate each other. Of course. They're muslims! But one day they run into each other at a fermented camel-milk bar. They're pounding back the hump juice and one thing leads to another, the Sunni says, `Why do we have to hate each another when they're are so many infidels in the world?' And the Shi'ite says, `Yeah you're right, let's stop all the name-calling and finger-pointing,' and so the next thing you know they're best friends. The Sunni says, `Hey, would you like to come home and meet the family and my wives?' And the Shi'te replies, `Wouldn't I!' And the Sunni fires back "Peg leg!" Hey whoa, ha, whoops! Yeah baby ...
11 posted on 09/15/2012 2:41:59 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: neverdem; Longbow1969

and there they fashioned a brilliant civilization that stood as a rebuke to the intolerance of the European states to the north. Cordoba and Granada were adorned and exalted in the Arab imagination. Andalusia
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the backwards Arabs, were stunned by the brilliant civilization, that already existed in Persian.
(and large amounts of tolerant Zoastrians).
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they never built ANYTHING. their Golden age,
was simply an age of plunder.
built for stealing from Persian, the Christian middle east,
India, and the backs of millions of black slaves.
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Spain (Andalusia), was always majority Christian. So the Muslims were slightly more tolerant, to avoid revolt.
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“Little remained of their philosophy and literature, “
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their seats of power, were never conquered. so why did the Arab philosophy and literature disappear ? ludicrous. especially when much still remains of the REAL brilliant civilizations, literature, etc., of Greeks, Indians, Persians, etc., from centuries earlier.
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those 2 sentences alone, are not just factually incorrect,
they also fail any test of logic, in the study of history, anthropology, etc.


12 posted on 09/15/2012 2:44:25 PM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: neverdem
The people with no sense of self-worth are the first people to say "You are disrespecting me! My self-esteem suffers from your lack of respect!"

Look at the Arabs.
Look at the ghetto culture.
Look at feminists.

It's all the same. They have no real sense of their own worthiness and so they attack others for insufficiently admiring their greatness.

13 posted on 09/15/2012 2:45:13 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: neverdem
Is Barack Obama the "promised warrior" coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?

snip

According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet's cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a "tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West." Commanding "the strongest army on earth," the new ruler in the West will carry "a clear sign" from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: "Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us." In a curious coincidence Obama's first and second names--Barack Hussein--mean "the blessing of Hussein" in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means "he is with us," the magic formula in Majlisi's tradition.

Not about being true....It's all about what they think is true.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/26/obama-iran-ahmadinejad-oped-cx_at_1026taheri.html

And this widely promoted video in Iran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiadYT-N9k

14 posted on 09/15/2012 2:46:33 PM PDT by Zeneta (Why are so many people searching for something that has already found us ?)
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To: neverdem

There was a great article featured here about a week ago. I can’t find it now. It talked about, well,,, basically the brain damage inflicted by a couple thousand years of inbreeding. Marrying your first cousin. One of the things talked about was anti-social behavior. Not to even mention other birth defects! Wish I could find that article,,,,,,,,,,, It explained a lot! And it wasn’t just talk, it was a medical study report.


15 posted on 09/15/2012 2:47:45 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Elendur

Try reading the whole thing - Prof. Ajami isn’t known for his “fatual errors”


16 posted on 09/15/2012 2:52:38 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: neverdem

Nice article.

A more focused approached with great detail and definition in terms of the Koran, the OIC, ALQaeda, CAIR, ISNA etc and the current Jihadist uprisings is to be found in the intricately detailed and simple to view and hear 5 videos of Maj. S. Coughlin, veteran analyst for the Pentagon and the Executive Branch and the Congress. The entire current game plan is exposed from his research into the Muslim world itself in current historical context.

Just as Rommel’s book was read and understood by Patton, Coughlin has read the Islamist playbook and details the findings allowing prediction of events, even as they occur now. Willful ignorance of the Islamist way, its agenda, milestones is our undoing on this matter. Coughlin shows how everything fits together. The WH relies on MuslimBrotherhood advisors. Coughlin makes the case for the Muslim Brotherhood abandoning reliance on Meccan Koranic scripture and adopting AlQaeda’s Medina scriptures as a basis for operations since 2010, and what this means. What it means is what we are witnessing now in N. Africa and the entire ME.

There is definition in the last video to the 10 year milestone plan ending in 2015, which is in progress right now and includes the relevance of Maj. Hasan in detail to the achievement of the milestones.

The link for Coughlin’s 5 videos: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p19087.xml


17 posted on 09/15/2012 2:56:24 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: neverdem

It’s not about money, possessions or material progress. It’s about faith. The font of Islamic radicalism for decades has been the Gulf kingdoms, the richest of the Islamic countries. It appears that religious devotion among Muslims increases along with wealth. Unfortunately, Muslim religious devotion means following in the footsteps of Muhammad, who exhorted his followers to conquer the world for Islam and kill all who refuse to convert, and set a personal example by conquering the Persian and Roman empires.


18 posted on 09/15/2012 2:59:17 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: neverdem

> The ruling caliphate, with its base in Baghdad, was torn asunder by a Mongol invasion in the 13th century.

God Bless you Genghis Hkan.
Contrary to what the schools teach about Genghis Khan, his primary goal was commerce. His mongul armies swept across Asia and parts of Europe conquering cities and states. He did not, however, wipe out the populace or change things. When a city was taken, it was converted to a mongul territory, if the leaders did not convert they were eliminated, but he allowed the people to keep their customs, religions and freedoms. There was one exception, Islam. The monguls had so many problems with the muslims that the Khan decided that the only way to deal with muslims was to slaughter them all and raze their cities to dust; and this he did.


19 posted on 09/15/2012 3:01:34 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (The First Amendment is a large caliber weapon. USE IT !!!)
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20 posted on 09/15/2012 3:02:54 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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