SCANDAL BOTHERS LIBERALS MORE THAN IT BOTHERS MANY ARABS

New York Post ^ | 5/11/04 | STEVE DUNLEAVY

[kattracks]

May 11, 2004 -- I WISH my English were as articulate as his, but a slight accent whispers that he is from the Middle East. His name is Mouafac Harb, one of the two Arab TV reporters who interviewed President Bush over the scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison.

[Texasforever]

Dang am I good or what? LOL

To: Howlin

Does anyone notice something missing here? Where is the 'Arab street" Where are the mass demonstrations. Where are the pictures of thousands of Iraqis in the streets of Baghdad protesting this "outrage", Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran ? Surely Al Jezzera would be showing them. Where are the British Muslims in their thousands or the Detroit Muslims? In France their Muslims hit the streets in the thousands because of a headscarf ban where are they now? Why is the "outrage" limited to the lily-white media in the US and Europe?

24 posted on 05/11/2004 2:07:46 AM CDT by Texasforever (The French love John Kerry. He is their new Jerry Lewis)

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[Texasforever]

Does anyone notice something missing here? Where is the 'Arab street" Where are the mass demonstrations. Where are the pictures of thousands of Iraqis in the streets of Baghdad protesting this "outrage", Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran ? Surely Al Jezzera would be showing them. Where are the British Muslims in their thousands or the Detroit Muslims? In France their Muslims hit the streets in the thousands because of a headscarf ban where are they now? Why is the "outrage" limited to the lily-white media in the US and Europe?

[The Scourge of Yazid]

This is classic Dunleavy. Usually, I feel that the guy should just be given a gold watch and sent to a nice retirement cottage in County Mayo.

However, this is a brilliant piece. I can't believe the hypocrisy-isn't that a cardinal sin according to liberalism(?) of some of these arab journalists!As if Bari abdel-Atwan-a mouthpiece for OBL in England-knows the first thing about humanity. It makes me want to wretch.

[texasflower]

As I was reading this article, I thought about your post and was going to ping you to this!

This guy was interviewed on Fox the day after Bush's address to the Arab world.

He was talking about this during that interview.

[Texasforever]

I think even the 'Arab Street" has enough intellectual honesty to see how hypocritical they would be to equate this to "torture". It is too bad our own "media and democrats" don't share that same sense of proportion.

[texasflower]

No kidding.

[kattracks]

It is too bad our own "media and democrats" don't share that same sense of proportion.

Their sense of proportion has nothing to do with why they are frothing at the mouth over this. They will attempt to do as much damage to President Bush as they possibly can. The fact that they are also doing damage to the country and our troops means nothing to them, as long as they perceive a benefit for their agenda.

[PROUDAMREP]

I'm wondering if the liberal media and dims would have still defended Clinton if they had had pictures. Maybe they have a reading comprehension problem and had to have pictures to really understand the problem.

[Caipirabob]

It's disturbing how a small group of US soldiers playing sex games the rats are probably familiar with on a daily basis concerns them more than the group of 911 hijackers and their results.

[Trinity_Tx]

Great article.

Everyone is "Fronting". I think the reactions to this, even from most of us, is more (not all) a matter of how the chosen reaction will be perceived politically than how terrible we really think the treatment of these prisoners was.

[Waco]

Have the chicom $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ arrived yet? Taresa needs to know rght away.

[wingman1]

"The fact that they are also doing damage to the country and our troops means nothing to them, as long as they perceive a benefit for their agenda."

The great thing is that the American people recognize these attributes in the words of "Sheets" and "The Lifeguard".

[mtbopfuyn]

Mouafac sees some American journalists and politicians as naive and self-destructive.

And there you have it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

SCANDAL BOTHERS LIBERALS MORE THAN IT BOTHERS MANY ARABS

I think not, this is like Christmas (Yuletide, Winterfest, whatever) for them.

[aruanan]

SCANDAL BOTHERS LIBERALS MORE THAN IT BOTHERS MANY ARABS

The reason for this is that liberals are primarily naive emotionalists. They believe that whatever they feel or perceive is a direct reflection of reality rather than a description of themselves. Because of this, anything that threatens the feeler's idea that his percepts are reality is evil and anything that humiliates the feeler is the ultimate evil. This is why it appears that for them the humiliation of bad people in Iraq is so much worse than the bad things these people have done because if we could only have understood things from their points of view we would be able to understand why they did them. But to humiliate them is to be acting the same way as they did and shows we're no better than they are (I've actually heard someone say this)--as though that makes any kind of sense.

[macrahanish #1]

Many liberals are deeply saddened by the fact that they were not invited to be part of the prisoner pyramid.

[AMNZ]

Wrong word, "Bothers" liberals.

Clearly it should have been "Delites".

The scum liberals can't see enough of this stuff and are reveling in using it in there effort to unseat Rumsfeld as they try to get back the Presidency.

For them, it's OK for a president to do this with an intern, but not for a troop to do it to an enemy. Where was I reading that Clinton was one of our most "successful" Presidents?

[smiley]

.....an fine example of "don't ask, don't tell"....??

[Caipirabob]

You nailed it. Bill Clinton's social experiment with the army finally yields a payoff... for rat propaganda.

[sheik yerbouty]

They want an engraved invitation.