"Sherif Ali! So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."
Sharif was born Michel Demitri Chalhoub in Egypt1932, and was raised Catholic and converted to Islam1955.
Speaking from inside the culture, Omar Sharif may have a perspective that escapes most “reformers” that want to impose democracy on the Islamic states.
Islam, as it is now constituted, is one of the most anti-democratic, authoritarian cultural constructs on the planet, rivaling that of a pride of lions. At the center is the alpha male, surrounded and supported by a coterie of females, to whom the chores of procuring food and raising the young is delegated. The male has the singular duty of keeping the other males of his species away from his females, and for the most part, the young. Young males are much more aggressive than would be the case, and take great risks, partly to display their potential fitness to take over an existing harem, should one of the older alpha males fail to maintain his authority over the pride, and partly because they have an excess of testosterone and no place to discharge it otherwise. Think strapping on a bomb vest and walking into a herd of water buffalo.
The preachings of The Prophet are the ravings of a totally self-absorbed madman. There is no empathy, and no directive remotely like the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule.
Those are the things that make the consideration of something like “democracy” possible. Without empathy and a code of law that recognizes the rights of other, there is no dialogue.
What percentage of Egyptians have a passport Omar?
"Sherif Ali! So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."
Winning the battle for Iraq is one thing.
Bringing democracy to the Islamic world is a fallacy.
Only 10% of all Americans have a passport. In other words, 90% never left America,”
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Last time I checked, a diploma signifies intelligence rather than a passport.
No wonder these “arabs” are still living in the 7th century.
Yo Omar, there is one point I do disagree with Bush about;
I don’t agree that you folks are worth saving.
No matter what we do to you or for you, at the end of the day, we are still the infidel.
Ironically, our own CIA overthrew the first democracy in the region, in Iran.
Actor Omar Sharif Pleads No Contest to Misdemeanor Battery Charge
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Omar Sharif pleaded no contest Tuesday to misdemeanor battery and was ordered to take an anger management course for punching a parking valet who refused to accept his European currency.
Omar, the U.S. is there to prevent the 70% of the World's known oil reserves that are in the Persian Gulf region from falling under the military control of a nuclear armed hostile Baathist Iraq or a nulclear armed radical Islamist Iran.
The "Democracy" experiment is strictly optional.
If, in the end, it takes a pro-U.S. strongman that rules with an iron fist, then that is what will be done.
Put in your application and you might be considered for the job.
Why does it matter that someone doesn’t have a passport or has never left the country? The US is so big you and spend a lifetime exploring it and never see it all.
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Sharif don’t like it....
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I agree, to the extent that I don’t think Islam and freedom can co-exist. Islam, in many ways, is the denial and rejection of personal freedom and responsibility. Until Islam is eradicated billions of people will be enslaved to its dogma.
At any one time. That is not the same as only 10% have ever had a passport.
In the US, I've driven for hours at 70 and been in the same county. All day at 70 and still in the same state. Some exits out west are 50 miles apart. In Europe, you can drive a couple of hundred miles and have been in three or four nations. So, the increase in EU passport rates isn't so much a function of far flung travel, as much as tiny little countries.
Arabs produce not world class good or service.
The Arabs do not have one, single world class university.
600 million Arabs( Including Saudi Arabia, UAR, Bahrain,etc) have a combined GDP equal to Finland, or New York state.
So, factually, Arabs are lazy, unproductive, ignorant, poor and stupid.
Some Arabs become actors.
Omar is a racist. He should be caned by his local sheik.
How the hell did Sharif get an audience with President Bush?