[kupia_kummi]

This is something the MSM in the US won't publish.

[atari]

a liberal teaching in Syria?

frightening

[servantoftheservant]

Magnificent post. Thanks for finding it. This confirms something I have found in my travels to India and Singapore...that religious and intelligent people all over the world who understand the issues facing America, are admirers of GWB.

[VOA]

"Since I began teaching in Damascus six months ago, I have been continually surprised
to find support and even admiration for Bush in that city"

You've got to give Osama credit for this...he was right when he said that "people prefer the
the stronger horse".

[VOA]

Like the winning margin of American voters this year, these Middle Easterners
related to Bush's sense of religious conviction and his confident steering of a
nation and culture they admired.

Amazing that Damascus had a better idea of which candidate was "Unfit To Command"...
than most voters in Boston, NYC, Chi-town, Seattle, Portland, SF and Los Angeles...

[DrDeb]

EXCELLENT insights, and from a (typically) leftist academician no less!

On Monday, I will share this article with my university colleagues . . . it will absolutely ruin their day!!

[counterpunch]

Only dictators and their supporters and apologists don't support President Bush.
The people who actually live under tyranny support him and what he is doing to bring them freedom.

[cripplecreek]

While liberals seem to think that muslim hatred for America is a direct result of conservative ideals, it appears to me that muslims have greater problems with some pretty basic liberal ideologies.

However these students don't appear to be the typical extremist types. They type that follows the bin ladens of the world probably aren't attending this school. They likely attend a madrassa that teaches extremist hatred.

Valuable info in any case.

[Treasa]

An ecstatic ping! Nice to know people *all over* get GWB. :)

[Buckhead]

George W. Bush: in your heart, you know he's right.

[Bob J]

Typical liberal elitest academic. He refuses to even try understanding the attitudes and positions of average americans in fly over country, but let the same words slip from by the lips of those he would consider our enemy, and an epiphany results.

Even more stunning is this dimwit doesn't remotely smell the irony.

[Niks]

Great post! Really fascinating. It's the "values" thing again. The reason they prefer Bush is his conservative values and it's also the reason the Europeans prefer Kerry.

[Servant of the 9]

"The students were, almost without exception, from the upper echelons of Damascene society: well educated, financially comfortable, with many hailing from important Syrian families involved in high-level economic and governmental decision-making."

"I pressed them further for a few minutes, asking individual students why they liked Bush. The same ideas came up again and again: he is a strong leader, an honest man, and, most of all, a believer. Like the winning margin of American voters this year, these Middle Easterners related to Bush's sense of religious conviction and his confident steering of a nation and culture they admired."

[sully777]

The teacher lived in the christian quarter, and the viewpoint is narrowed. But all in all, M.E. nations and people respect power. Bush 41 and 43 are respected for their use of power.

[tkathy]

Real people recognize a leader when they see one.

[M Kehoe]

I hope Assad does a Qaddafi so I can visit Damascus one day. Beirut too.

5.56mm

[bill1952]

And thus I came to realize something that the Democrats could never admit:

that there exists a support base for both the Republicans' domestic and foreign agenda among the very people we thought most opposed current U.S. policy. The cultural background and value systems which inform many of these young Arabs' outlook on the world mean they will always favor men like Bush over men like Kerry.

The tenets of faith, family and, yes, "moral issues" determine the overall political leanings of a considerable number of the Middle East's future leaders, in rejection of Democratic stump issues like increased liberalism, internationalism and scientific progress...."

And this is a surprise to the intellectual elite of this country?
Shows how far the meaning of "educated" has fallen.
Totally decadent.

We need to take a type of "control" back over our system, but it doesn't look easy.

[Allegra]

The Iraqis supported Bush overwhelmingly, too. Every single Iraqi I interact with gushes about "President Boosh." They were delighted when he won.

We were just shocked that the U.S. media never seemed to make any mention of that. < /sarcasm >

[mewzilla]

I just loved this bit. From the link:

"But doesn't he scare you?" I asked finally, unable to contain my personal feelings and throwing the lesson plan out the window. "Because of Bush's ideas many people in my country think that all of you are terrorists." Rahaf and most of the others just shrugged. Maybe that was all true, they said, but he was still a good president.

[Reader of news]

President Bush will be remembered as the liberator of the Arab world.

[Reader of news]

A good web page to see:
http://www.muslimsforbush.com/