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Op-Ed: Why Arabs are so Easily Offended
Arutz Sheva ^ | 30/9/12 | Ron Jager

Posted on 10/01/2012 1:15:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

“Call me Ishmael”, is the opening sentence that opens the novel “Moby Dick” authored by Herman Melville. Ishmael, who is telling the story of Moby Dick, recounts that he is sailing to sea out of a sense of alienation and cultural inadequacy.

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Ever since the days of Napoleon's landing upon the shores of Egypt at the very end of the 18th Century and bringing with him the modern era to the Middle East, Islam has been unable to free itself from the shackles of inferiority and self-destructive primal rage that typifies the hatred of modern day Islamic radicalism against Western civilization.

In recent years, despite Israel being at the foci of much of what has been termed the "war of civilizations" between the Western world and Islam, Europe is undergoing a rapid demographic transition that will lead to a large Muslim population harboring an unchanging, hostile attitude toward their national communities.

Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist who has had extensive experience with treating Muslim youths has identified four main differences that are important in order to understand the behavior of Muslims and how they interact with Western influences. Without dismissing the intrinsic value of multiculturalism or the need to identify with ones cultural roots Sennels has identified four main differences that are important in order to understand the behavior of Muslims. They concern anger, self-confidence, the so-called "locus of control" and identity.

Westerners are brought up to think of anger as a sign of weakness, powerlessness and lack of self-control.

In Muslim culture, anger is seen as a sign of strength. ....

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: araboffense; arabs; honor; islam; jihad; muslim; muslimoffense; offended; sharia; violence
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To: EggsAckley
Sennels says that “the ability to enjoy and produce knowledge and abstract thinking is simply lower in the Islamic world.” He points out that the Arab world translates just 330 books every year, about 20% of what Greece alone does.

In the last 1,200 years years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year. Seven out of 10 Turks have never even read a book.

Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to succeed in the West. “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our high-tech knowledge societies.”

Only nine Muslims have every won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the “Peace Prize.” According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research (measured by articles per million inhabitants).

In Denmark, Sennels’ native country, Muslim children are grossly overrepresented among children with special needs. One-third of the budget for Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to 70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an immigrant background.

Learning ability is severely affected as well. Studies indicated that 64% of school children with Arabic parents are still illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The immigrant drop-out rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.

Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of schizophrenic illness. The increased risk of insanity may explain why more than 40% of the patients in Denmark’s biggest ward for clinically insane criminals have an immigrant background.

According to Sennels, “One study based on 300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA have a lower income, are less educated, and have worse jobs than the population as a whole.”

81 posted on 10/02/2012 5:43:11 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: 353FMG
Please make a distinction between Arabs and muslims. Christian Arabs are being persecuted by muslim Arabs as you read this.

Correct.

82 posted on 10/02/2012 5:43:48 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: muawiyah

well, not quite — the Abbasid Arabs continued in Morocco and Spain.


83 posted on 10/02/2012 5:45:11 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

They had the economic might of Spain behind them ~


84 posted on 10/02/2012 6:02:41 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Eleutheria5
The Brits came to North America because the King of Spain carved the place up and gave it away to his relatives ~ except for one relatively small part between what is now North Carolina and New York. it was particularly pitiful ~and the Brits came there ~ and started up what would eventually turn into the world's most powerful and greatest nation.

But in the beginning the Brits were barely able to defend their own stuff in England, and the battle to the top took centuries.

By 1700 the King of England was using it as a place to send refugees to England or Quakers ~ still, earlier, the Swedes had pretty much dispatched most of the Eastern Sa'ami tribes to cut down pine trees for shipping, and the Dutch had worked out some of their problems and had a piece of the fur business there in manhattan island.

We all know the story ~ don't we.

85 posted on 10/02/2012 6:09:42 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

The pope had granted most of North and South America to Spain, and the rest of it to Portugal. England was protestant, so didn’t have to listen to the Pope. Spain, anyway, was in decline, so couldn’t really exploit its empire. The Protestant countries started sending privateers to prey off their shipping, and then outright colonized. The Dutch were originally part of Spain, then gained independence, which is why they felt free to go after the pine trees, since they were also Protestant, I think. So if King Henry VIII hadn’t been randy for Ann Bolin, America would never have happened, or everyone would be speaking Spanish or Dutch, or something.


86 posted on 10/02/2012 8:07:55 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I’ve seen the results on buses in Jerusalem, vacant retarded faces on top of giant bodies.


87 posted on 10/02/2012 8:10:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Possibly. Coligny and Ribault conspired together to start a colony in Carolina ~ which probably wasn't as outrageous as historians imagine since the rural Bretons at the time were just fine with King Philippe.

The deal was France and Spain had a treaty of commerce and amity that allowed even French protestants to participate in the Atlantic trade with Spanish ports.

The specific Swedes who came to America to cut pine trees ALSO had close ties to the same rural Protestant Breton nobility who were trying to get Spain to take over Brittany!

May have been the Swedes simply went to the same place Coligny was offered ~ which would be today's Pennsylvania.

When the Spanish began surveying the lines specified in the Treaty of London (1604) Greater NY CITY are as we know it was South of the line surveyed between Acadia (Owned by Scotland) AND Virginia (Owned by no one in particular ~ all European Protestants could go there apparently)

Ribault's failed colony was South of the Virginia/North Carolina line so it was out of bound and well within what Spain considered La Florida.

England didn't come into a power position in the Americas until after the Glorious Restoration ~ by then economics and populations had changed enough they had the upper hand over Spain and France. By 1700 it was pretty Clear England and the Scandinavians were going to be dominating Europe's direction for a long time. I"m not sure the English in the 1700s drew any clear distinctions between themselves and the Scandinavians and the northern Germans.

88 posted on 10/02/2012 8:18:55 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

They duked it out with Scotland and booted the House of Stuart from the monarchy, and then established the German dynasty still ruling England today.


89 posted on 10/02/2012 8:27:37 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Cronos

THANK YOU!! So refreshing to have that information spelled out, instead of the predictable poster who claims that inbreeding didn’t hurt his/her family at all. That happens a lot.

Your posts are absolutely edifying.


90 posted on 10/02/2012 8:34:46 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!")
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To: FreedomPoster

I will, but just in case you know before I start reading for the answer-why do they keep doing it when they know the result? No matter how irrational they are on other matters, they must know continuing to force first-cousin marriages will continue to weaken their line.


91 posted on 10/02/2012 9:09:30 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Eleutheria5

Different animal? Yes and no. The Ottoman Turks were Oghuz Turks and they took over the collapsed Seljuk Khanate. The only reason they were in Anatolia in the first place was that the Seljuk Turks won (or at least Byzantine infighting lost) the Battle of Manzikert.


92 posted on 10/02/2012 11:52:50 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Cronos

“Only nine Muslims have every won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the “Peace Prize.” According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research (measured by articles per million inhabitants).”

This is because the Nobel family is part of a Zionist conspiracy to exclude Muslims. See how many Jooos! have these Nobel prizes? There! See!

“In Denmark, Sennels’ native country, Muslim children are grossly overrepresented among children with special needs. One-third of the budget for Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to 70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an immigrant background.

Learning ability is severely affected as well. Studies indicated that 64% of school children with Arabic parents are still illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The immigrant drop-out rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.

Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of schizophrenic illness. The increased risk of insanity may explain why more than 40% of the patients in Denmark’s biggest ward for clinically insane criminals have an immigrant background.”

And you say marrying first cousins is bad?! Crazy people fight Jihaad better than anyone! If they are suicidal, you can make them suicide bombers. If they are paranoid, you can make them believe conspiracy theories. If they are schizophrenic, you can make them pieceful one moment, homicidal the next! If they are bipolar, same thing, only with manic energy! And with learning disabilities, they do not question the Holy Quran. The only danger is if they hallucinate, and start thinking they are prophets, too. First cousin marriages are the bomb!


93 posted on 10/02/2012 12:00:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: rmlew

The Ottomans tried to expand into Europe and failed, then turned their attention towards Egypt and Syria. They conquered the Mamlukes in Egypt and conquered Syria and points East, defeating the Persians. But they never conquered Persia or Afghanistan and India, all of which were part of a separate empire ruled by the Mogol/Seljuk/Sunni Persian kings, until the British came at them in 1757. The Ottomans were the Turkic speakers that the Seljuks settled into Anatolia, and who evolved into the genocidal mother-f@#$ers who tried to eradicate the Armenians and Greeks in Anatolia, oppressed and overtaxed the Muslim peasants, and made the Middle East into the s@#$-pile in which Napoleon found it.

The Mogol empire to the east, by contrast, was usually much more tolerant and less serious about Sharia. They were even sometimes fair and just to Hindus, and one of the first Mogol rulers of Northern India was known to be a heavy drinker, forbidden under Sharia. These were the people who built the Taj Mahal (not the one in Atlantic City), wrote lots of Urdu and Pharsi poetry about romantic love. Twilight in Delhi by Ahmad Ali captures the culture, and it is not at all like that of the Turks of Turkey.


94 posted on 10/02/2012 12:20:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: mrsmel

I have no good answer to that.

Long established custom they cannot break free from? Too much inbred stupidity?

I dunno.


95 posted on 10/02/2012 1:01:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Eleutheria5
They’ll just disappear into the Hindi sub-continent and become mendicants.

"Hindi" is a language, "Hindu" is the religion. The sub-continent is called the Indian sub-continent

96 posted on 10/02/2012 5:39:12 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: lentulusgracchus

well, not all Hindu gods are blue-skinned. I think only Krishna, Vishnu and Shiva are depicted with blue skin.


97 posted on 10/02/2012 5:42:05 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Eleutheria5; muawiyah

Actualy the Mamluks were Turkic in origin and the Ilkhanate Empire ruling Persia was Mongolic-Turkic


98 posted on 10/02/2012 5:44:21 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: patriotsblood
Ishmael is truly only the ancestor of the Nejd Arabs (or "true" Arabs) - those from the area around Mecca and Medina

Egyptians are not truly these Arabs, nor are people from the Maghreb or Syria or Iraq. The Syrians and Iraqis are Semitic yes, but descendents of earlier Semitic incursions. The Maghreb people are a mix of Berber, Greek and other European and Arab.

99 posted on 10/02/2012 5:47:17 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

Yup ~ even today Sunni tribes in the part of Persia called Iraq look a lot like their turkic ancestors! Saddam Hussein certainly did!


100 posted on 10/02/2012 5:57:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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