[Thinkin' Gal]

The Bedouin mediator says the Habashes have dishonoured his tribe by breaching the pledge that Faten would not be harmed. "The crime is not against the girl, the crime is against our family," said Mr Abu Dahouq. "Since they have broken their word, we have the right to retaliate. There will be a reaction for betraying their religion and betraying us."

"So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people — greedy, barbarous, and cruel."

[hunter112]

I've had another idea to make them a "little people". We need to develop a drug that practically insures only male babies are conceived. Get it out (subsidized, of course) on the black market in every society stuck in the 7th Century, and in a couple of generations, they will breed themselves out of existence.