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Terror war 'holding back Arab societies'
FT.com ^
| October 20 2003 18:54
| Gareth Smyth in Beirut
Posted on 10/20/2003 11:29:07 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: TaxPayer2000
A group of leading Arab intellectuals warned on Monday that the US-led "war on terror" was "giving ruling regimes in some Arab countries spurious justification for curbing freedom". Like they were so free and democratic prior to the war on terror. Give me a friggin' break.
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:30:34 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Cure Arnold of groping - throw him into a dark closet with Janet Reno and shut the door.)
To: TaxPayer2000
Last year's 168-page report was downloaded by more than 1m people from the UNDP website.Quick guess - this was mostly by well-informed westerners (like readers of this site) who wanted to know just how bad a shape the middle east was in.
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:33:16 AM PDT
by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: All
And why was the war on terror started?
Because of Islamofacists. If Arabs really wanted to end the war on terror, they could. They could denounce terrorism and put an end to the type of Islam that promotes terrorism. Until then, they will deal with the consequences of their fellow brother's actions.
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:34:20 AM PDT
by
mmandahl
To: TaxPayer2000
Could the arabs convert to a new religion? They one they have now is obviously not doing right by them, nor is it their own religion anymore. Most Muslims are not arab, a minority in their own country.
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:36:02 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: TaxPayer2000
"A group of leading Arab intellectuals..."
Never heard of them. Did the head idiot declare the rest intellectuals?
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:40:13 AM PDT
by
Roughneck
(9 out of 10 Terrorists prefer Democrats, the rest prefer Saddam Hussein)
To: TaxPayer2000
Yeah, we're holding them back from joining the 13th century. Hell, I'm all for sending them back to the stone age.
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:43:28 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: TaxPayer2000
Note to Arab "intellectuals":
If you let your terror groups exploit channels of communication that have valid uses like educational exchange, and then those channels of communication are restricted, why are you surprised? DUH!
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:47:13 AM PDT
by
etcetera
To: TaxPayer2000
"Terror war 'holding back Arab societies'"
Gosh, what isn't holding those societies back? Gee, those poor societies! Such victims!
Why, you don't think that the Arab societies themselves are responsible, do you?
Naaaaaaaaaaah!
To: TaxPayer2000
The report explicitly calls for the Iraqi people to be able to "exercise their basic rights in accordance with international law - [and] free themselves from occupation". Iraq is the only free, soon to be democratic county in the Arab world because of our occupation. The Iraqis know this, that's why they don't want us to leave anytime soon. If it was up to "Arab intellectuals" they would still be under Saddams bloody thumb. Their saying "restructuring" must come from "within" is an attempt to delegitimize any eventual democratic government in Iraq.
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posted on
10/20/2003 12:00:42 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: TaxPayer2000
What were their reasons prior to 9/11/01? Arab regimes have been holding back the aspirations of their people for 1600 years.
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posted on
10/20/2003 12:26:48 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(Well...there you go again.)
To: TaxPayer2000
Within the next year, look for a consensus to emerge from Islamic religious authorities and on the "Arab Street" that terrorism is a bad idea, and that it must be suppressed in order for Islam to make progress in the world. At this point, Islamic terrorism will be ruthlessly repressed in these societies, and will largely die out for the next 50 years or so.
This will be hailed by the anti-everything Left as proof that the WOT was wrong, but people who understand history will know otherwise. It will prove that force works to deter aggression, and that the way to secure temporary peace from Islam is to stuff the terrorist genie back into his bottle through brute force.
This is how the game of global Whack-A-Mole is played.
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posted on
10/20/2003 12:28:08 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(How many times must we go Muslim-Hun-Hoard, Muslim-Hun-Hoard, before we begin to see a pattern?)
To: dirtboy
Maybe it would be good for some of you Arab countries to speak out against terror Islam. I haven't hear anything yet...
To: TaxPayer2000
Arabs
NEVER blame themselves for their own problems.
It's always the fault of others (American, Israelis, Jews, Westerners, Capitalists).
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posted on
10/20/2003 12:33:29 PM PDT
by
Guillermo
( Proud Infidel)
To: TaxPayer2000
What a steaming load of camel dung!
To: PBRSTREETGANG
Terror war 'holding back Arab societies' .......from launching more suicide bombings......
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posted on
10/20/2003 12:44:28 PM PDT
by
IvanT
To: TaxPayer2000
Of course it "holds back" arab "societies.
Close down all those homicide vest factories and the actual explosives factories themselves, and all they got left to do is hang out on street corners, smoke and curse jews.
Or maybe hold mock funerals, shoot guns in the air and put on masks to improve their looks.
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posted on
10/20/2003 12:50:14 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: RightWhale
Could the arabs convert to a new religion?
No. iSLAM calls for the murder of any one who converts from iSLAM or who preaches for that conversion. That primitive death-cult keeps their benighted societies down in the gutter. Their only hope against the human civilizations they are trying to destroy is in nukes, which they are struggling to get.
And you can rest assured that they will get them and use them on us.
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:24:47 PM PDT
by
Thorondir
(iSLAM is a disease begging for a cure.)
To: TaxPayer2000
Arab intellectuals? The ultimate oxymoron?
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:38:59 PM PDT
by
tkathy
(The islamofascists and the democrats are trying to destroy this country)
To: Publius6961
Of course this report neglects to talk about Saudi Arabia dipping it's toe into democracy coming up soon...and our occupation of Iraq has no relation to that at all...and...oh yea, they hate Bush.
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:53:17 PM PDT
by
Keith
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