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Egyptian Progressive:'Why Can't We [Arabs] See Things as the Rest of the World Sees Them?'
The Middle East Media Research Institute ^
| November 19, 2004
| Dr. Amr Isma'il
Posted on 11/21/2004 8:26:03 AM PST by RepCath
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An excellent article. The progressive Egyptian intellectual Dr. Amr Isma'il whose articles are regularly published on the secular Arab website www.rezgar.com, wrote an article condemning the Arabs' lack of self-criticism and the Islamists' abuse of the term "democracy." The following are excerpts from the article, which appeared on the progressive Arabic website www.elaph.com: [1]
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:26:04 AM PST
by
RepCath
To: RepCath
Great article....so when does he get assasinated by the radical mullahs?
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:30:24 AM PST
by
glennherman
(Just another evil right wing extremist!)
To: RepCath
Why are we not able to criticize ourselves and [why do] we view anyone who tries to do so as an enemy of the nation and of its principles, and other things of this kind that make some people afraid to think? Excellent and honest question...rare in that part of the world.
The answer is most likely that your culture isn't self-examining because it is based on Islam and any critical examination of Islam is blasphemy.
If the thing at the center of one's heart cannot be examined, examination tends to extend only outward...ergo the paranoid projections so prevalent in the Islamic world and the reason Muslims always blame others for their problems.
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:35:10 AM PST
by
weenie
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
To: glennherman
Unfortunately, if the arab world sees things like the leftist scum in europe and elsewhere, they will be in a worse hole than they are in now.
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:35:13 AM PST
by
pissant
To: RepCath
Dr. Amr Isma'il is a very brave man, an honest, insightful man worthy of our admiration and respect.
Such men are routinely assassinated by "devout" muslims.
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:35:41 AM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
To: RepCath
"Why can't we see things as the rest of the world sees them? Who added the word Arab? "Why Can't We [Arabs] See Things as the Rest of the World Sees Them?"
When did Egyptians become Arabs?
To: RepCath
Uh... you follow a violent, archaic, homicidal faith?
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:37:24 AM PST
by
pabianice
To: MosesKnows
When they were invaded by Arabs militarily and culturally in the 7th century. Arabic is the national language, and Islam is the prevalent religion (96%).
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:45:08 AM PST
by
Renderofveils
(8th Engineer Bn, 1 Cav. "Cannibals!")
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To: RepCath
He'll probably have his throat slit for this article.
To: weenie
The answer is most likely that your culture isn't self-examining because it is based on Islam and any critical examination of Islam is blasphemy. No different than a few of the "Christians" out there in the Creationism threads. They have their interpretation of the first two chapters in Genesis, and they let it set their entire view of the world. Won't listen even to another Christian that disagrees.
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posted on
11/21/2004 9:04:08 AM PST
by
narby
To: bullseye876
and ate peyote buttons every 28 daysSome traditions might be worth saving...
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posted on
11/21/2004 9:04:44 AM PST
by
weenie
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
To: bullseye876
As if we in North America reverted back to pueblo style dwelling complexes, worshipped the coyote spirit in dug out circles with stone seats, wore animal skin plus fours and eagle feathers in our hair, and ate peyote buttons every 28 days. Sounds like business-as-usual in some areas around Santa Fe, NM. Where the 60's hippies merged with the local Indian culture.
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posted on
11/21/2004 9:05:58 AM PST
by
narby
To: bullseye876
"As if we in North America reverted back to pueblo style dwelling complexes, worshipped the coyote spirit in dug out circles with stone seats, wore animal skin plus fours and eagle feathers in our hair, and ate peyote buttons every 28 days."Ahhh... brings back memories of the sixties in California....
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posted on
11/21/2004 9:07:20 AM PST
by
WarPaint
(Nuke mecca. Be done with it.)
To: MosesKnows
Many Muslim Egyptians consider themselves Arabs (and usually have some small descent from the Arab conquerors), Christian Egyptians don't, and some Muslim Egyptians don't. Secular Egyptian nationalism after the manner of Nassar considered itself part of Arab nationalism.
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posted on
11/21/2004 9:07:27 AM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
To: narby
But Christianity in its foundation is a religion of personal and religious examination...
Islam is a religion of blaming other religions, other cultures, other people...blame anyone else but don't look inward or you might discover the truth about Islam.
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11/21/2004 9:07:28 AM PST
by
weenie
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: weenie
Well said. I like the Churchill quote on your homepage: prescient!
To: narby
"No different than a few of the "Christians" out there in the Creationism threads. "
Aw Bullsh&t! How many creationists go around cutting unbelievers' throats? Grow up, geek.
To: RepCath
Before you all start offering to have this guy's children, you might have missed this:
when a terrorist country like Israel does so, it does not say it is killing in the name of the Lord
Well, like Murray said in the last eposiode of MTM, when a donkey flies you can't be upset if he doesn't stay up very long.
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posted on
11/21/2004 9:18:31 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Democrat credo: If we win, we win: if we lose it is theft!)
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