What’s Wrong with the Arab World? - Are the Arabs really this stupid?

National Review ^ | March 31, 2003 | Jonah Goldberg

[Grand Old Partisan]

France, Belgium, Italy, and many other European countries are Arabizing themselves. Jonah Goldberg may think Arabs are stupid, but they're conquering much of the world.

[OldFriend]

We ignore the axis of evil at our peril.

[Sabertooth]

Islam.

[Free the USA]

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[techcor]

I don't remember Einstein going back into Germany to fight for his fellow German- Adolf Hitler. 150,000 protest Americans freeing their "brother" muslims. Number of protestors against Saddam, zero. Yeah, sounds pretty stupid to me.

[OPS4]

Yes the Islams are really that stupid!
Ops4 God Bless America!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Finally getting some sense knocked into their heads.

Too little, too late?

We will see.

[bart99]

Terrific post. Thanks!!

[Anticommie]

Are the Arabs really this stupid?

YES.

[Asher]

"Terrific post. Thanks!!"

Thank Goldberg - he writes 'em; I just post 'em! :) And he's one hell of a writer. Nice to have him on our side.

[samtheman]

True, they are prolific and migratory. They can still be stupid.

And by stupid I mean cultural. Arab brains are exactly the same quality as any other human brains on the planet. All our DNA is virtually identical.

But Arabs are born into a diseased and rotten culture. thandicapped before they can develop normally.

Pity the poor Arabs their debilitating cultural disease.

[samtheman]

Correction:

Mentally handicapped before they can develop normally.

[bmwcyle]

The power of hate is stronger than thinking in many cases. Sin is a more powerful then even our own Libertarians will admit. After the fall of man in the garden he has been denying the power over him. It is not just the Arabs.

[houston_matt]

I would go easy on bashing "Arabs". It would seem that the Arab World is Anti-US, but then again, if you listen to the mainstream media, most of the US is anti US isn't it? NO, so I would guess that we only here about the Anti US Arabs simply because that's who the media wants us to hear about...

[samtheman]

You make a good point. And I agree with you. There are many Arabs out there who are thinking for themselves. But I believe they are doing so in direct opposition to the culture that is oppressing them.

I am not bashing Arab people. I am bashing the mental virus that is their culture. I'm sure many have cured themselves but are afraid to speak openly against the disease.

Hopefully, after this war, more will be willing to criticize the true source of all their woes.

[Pylot]

I think the author makes the mistake of assuming that all citizens of Arab nations are free, educated and a able to articulate their position.

The truth is that each nation is run by outright dictators or very corrupt leadership that has risen to power through brute force and pretty much stayed there through the oppression of their populations.

Its been called Saudia Arabia since about 42 when the Saud family brutally took power of the country and has held it since.

It is not in the interest of the leadership to see anything like modernization or a sophisticated society evolve.

So, it is wrong to class all "Arabs" as of one mind or "all stupid" and it is demeaning to the readers for the author to present an article that makes this assertion.

It is so common today to try to reduce a complex subject to an emotional sound bite. I get tired of it. What is more disturbing is the number of Americans who are willing to jump right in and take up the postion as if it were historical fact.

[prairiebreeze]

"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teaching of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing." --General George S. Patton

I post this quote frequently because I think Patton was right on target. And nothing has changed since Patton's day.

Prairie

[CaptainK]

14th century minds trapped in 21st century bodies.