Very true. Just got done reading a great book from Bernard Lewis. In one chapter he goes into detail on how Arabs are not patriotic. They are only religious. There is no sense of nationalism. To them nationalism is denying God and a zionist trait.
>.There is no sense of nationalism
One of the reasons for that is some of the Arab states are jerryrigged cartographic colonial creations that the nationalistic ideal has not been strong enough to carry the populace.
Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria (the Maghreb) are exceptions.
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and even Saudi are pretty much creations of the English and the French.
As is plainly obvious in Iraq, even the sense of religion is fractious, to say the least. They're more akin to the primitive clan-like parts of Africa.
These people are just so far behind the times that adopting rabid nationalism would actually be a huge step forward.