[upchuck]

"Thinking like an Arab." Is that sorta like, "Walking like an Egyptian?"

[Aggie Mama]

Agree with you completely.

[lainde]

Things that make you go hmmmmmmm....

[FITZ]

You know what really makes me think you're right on this was that story out at the beginning of this war --- when the American tanks first rolled through Iraq and they had loudspeakers shouting that Arab men have little members and the Arab men came running out from their hiding places all angry and mad at being so insulted.

[Quix]

I think and hope

there's a very significant chunk of truth to what you say.

[tertiary01]

I'll bet we could release all these captives today to their little villages and they would all be killed by their kinfolk by next week for bringing shame to their families.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The Real Humiliation?

If being naked and masturbating in public is to an Arab "worse" than taking a beating or being killed, why didn't the prisoners do the honorable thing, refuse and risk the beating? HMMM???

Seems this claim of Arab sensitivities may be a bit disengenuous. Or they were really humiliated because, as usual, they gave in too easily?

For a Christian, denial of Christ is spiritual death. But Muhammad recognized this weakness in his Arab followers and when his friend, Ammar bin Yasir, admitted to denying Islam as his parents were being killed, Muhammad forgave him. Then he "received a revelation", Qur'an 16:106 which permitted denial of Islam under duress. This practice, known as Taqiyyah or lying for the faith, has gotten easier and easier ever since. Taqiyyah is fundamental to the Shi'a and even the Sunni, which many Shi'a consider kufr, do not trust them.

[DeaconRed]

Damn
If only they had used PIGS
The fighting would be over.

[Toskrin]

This hit the Arabs right where it hurts, especially the Islamists. It touches on all their fears of the West: humiliation, sexual depravity, lack of subjugation of women, homosexuality, etc.

I don't condone using Iraqi prisoners to satisfy some freak's gay porn fetish. But we have been subjected to nasty underside of the Arab world over and over again - suicide bombers, September 11th, Daniel Pearl, Fallujah. It's time they get a taste of the worst America has to offer, and reflect upon it.

[ColdSteelTalon]

So what this means is that a Arab world is afraid of being photographed being dominated by women.

Hmmmmm fear of S&M bondage and being openly humiliated. Sounds like a new war tactic.

[tm22721]

If I were a Saudi royal I would have my plane warming up on the runway.

BUMP

[aculeus]

You got linked by this blogger. Scroll down to "Arab Street".

Congrats!

http://merdeinfrance.blogspot.com/

[Loyola]

"Arab societies base everything on power and perceptions of power." Same for Southern Europe: It is part of the dichotomy between superiority complex (used to be an Empire) and inferiority complex (all their "Empires" are gone."
Loved your post.