The “Ugly American” and the Arab Without a Nose

Asharq Al-Awsat ^ | 10/4/05 | Mona Eltahawy

[GOP_1900AD]

Well, she's now marked by the Jihadis. Good stuff.

[Kenton]

My message embodies the English saying “to cut off your nose to spite your face”, which means to perform an action – usually to prove a point - that makes you suffer the most. In the case of my cartoon, it means we will do anything to stand up to America and prove a point to America, forgetting in the meantime that ultimately we’re hurting ourselves the most.

Why stop at the nose? Cut off your whole head. That'll show us. Boy, I bet we'll pull right outta the middle east if you start doing that!

[Straight Vermonter]

I don't have any hard numbers but reports seem to show that suicide bombers have been predominantly non-Iraqi Arabs. Recently there has been an uptick in non-Arab Muslims especially from north Africa who have come to be martyrs.

The "foot soldier", so to speak, of the anti-coalition forces are predominantly Sunni Iraqis with the help of Syrians and Saudis as well.

The Syrians, for example, were the only ones defending Baghdad when the Americans arrived.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

And maybe the Arab will stop cutting off his nose



Or he can keep going and cut off his own head while video taping it and showing it on Al-Jazeera.

[Lady Jag]

Among many interfaith sins Mohammed
committed is pedophilia
It's a wonder he didn't eat pigs!

On the other hand,
IF there ever had been an Allah
he would have been the Pig!

But, THANK GOD, it's all a hallucination
by a bunch of heroin addicted
confused desert camel tribes.