Emirati Writer: Instead Of Believing In Conspiracy Theories, Arabs Must Find Common Ground...

MEMRI ^ | 18/6/15

[Eleutheria5]

In a June 6, 2015 article for the English-language UAE daily Gulf News, writer Dr. Khalifa Rashid Al-Sha'ali decried the Arab fondness for conspiracy theories, which he said is shared by the elites, the masses, and the media. For example, he wrote, the Arabs once thought that the "Zionist entity" and the U.S. were their supreme enemies, only to discover one day that it is actually possible to cooperate with them. Such conspiratorial thinking, he said, was responsible for many of the Arabs' defeats and problems – including the loss of Palestine in 1948 – because conspiracy theories provide a convenient excuse for Arab governments to explain away their failures. In addition, conspiratorial thinking also renders the Arabs unable to compromise with their enemies in order to secure their supreme interests, as other nations are able to do – such as the U.S. and Iran, for example, in their current relations. Al-Sha'ali concluded that the Arabs must find common ground with those they believe are their foes, in order to "spare [their] societies the scourge of wars, destruction, and invasions."

[Eleutheria5]

Don't just believe in conspiracies, become one.

[CharlesOConnell]

It's their illiteracy: They see a shard of newspaper on the ground, they reverently preserve it in case it might be part of the Holy Koran. The modern world is daily thrust into their faces via Al Jazeera. Their brains don't process that it's their anti-intellectual heritage that makes their civilization inferior, their rejection of science and natural law that gives them strange affinity with western leftist progressive anti-intellectual elites.

[Cronos]

quote from Lawrence of Arabia “So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are”

[Eleutheria5]

Fighting tribe against tribe is the very least of their problems. In fact, that’s rather a nice solution to the rest of their problems.

[muir_redwoods]

Imagine you were a young father living in squalor. You are among the 20th or 30th generation living in squalor with no hope out. Into your worthless and unproductive land move a mass of educated, driven, energetic people possessed of the knowledge to make the desert bloom, deliver modern medical service, create jobs for you, educate your children and take your stagnant culture from centuries of ignorance into the modern world. You have the chance to partner with them, work with them and live in peace with them.

Instead, let’s declare hopeless war.

[Rumplemeyer]

Instead, let’s declare hopeless war...

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By allowing your “leaders” to blow smoke up your kilt, notice they always want YOU to fight to the death while they make margaritas at headquarters...

[tbw2]

It’s refreshing to see a Muslim stand up to the conspiracy theories that circle around Muslims victims but victorious, Jews evil.
Like the 9-11 done by Israel, but Osama Bin Laden is great for doing it.