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]
1 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?
2 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.
3 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: 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.
5 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?
7 posted on
11/21/2004 8:37:24 AM PST by
pabianice
To: RepCath
He'll probably have his throat slit for this article.
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.
20 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!)
To: RepCath
Thanks for posting this excellent article. I guess there still is some hope.
22 posted on
11/21/2004 9:39:50 AM PST by
GaryL
To: RepCath
Yes.. an excellent article.
A soothing balm of words ... when I was beginning to despair that believing in Allah somehow short-circuited the rational part of the brain.
This is the only way we are going to win the war on terror. The moderates must side with the non-muslim world. But I look at pictures like these...
http://tinyurl.com/4j6sd
... and I think we have a very long way to go.
To: RepCath
How refreshing, a voice of reason from the Arab world! I only hope he is not silenced. This unrest stems from a cultural fanaticism and denial of the obvious. Peace is only attained when plow shares are dropped and reason replaces rant.
25 posted on
11/21/2004 10:25:05 AM PST by
7thOF7th
(Hurtling along, oblivious to it all.........................................How did we get here?)
To: RepCath
don't feel like reprising this one, here's a pointer within another FR topic:
Reactions Escalate in Islam Debate
The Copenhagen Post ^ | October 13, 2004 | Unattributed
Posted on 11/11/2004 9:24:22 AM PST by quidnunc
21 posted on 11/11/2004 10:49:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1277485/posts?page=21#21
26 posted on
11/21/2004 11:43:26 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: RepCath
They see things different from the rest of the world because the rest of the world left the stone age a long time ago.
27 posted on
11/21/2004 11:52:57 AM PST by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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