Queen Sees greater Arab-American divide

AP ^

[KingPin]

NEW YORK - As long as fighting continues in Iraq, cultural divides between the United States and the Muslim world will continue to deepen, Jordan's Queen Noor says.

Muslims are seeing a very aggressive, confrontational side of American foreign policy that's not being balanced, in their minds, by a conviction that it is motivated by American principles, as opposed to economic issues," Noor said in an interview with The Associated Press.

She said it is important to involve the United Nations (news - web sites) in the reconstruction process in postwar Iraq, where America's military presence is viewed by many in the region as imperialism.

Noor was promoting her new best-selling memoir, "Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life," about her life as the American-born wife of King Hussein. The former Lisa Najeeb Halaby changed her name and converted to Islam when she married Hussein in 1978, four years after graduating from Princeton University. Hussein died in 1999.

"Leap of Faith," an engaging if slick mix of history, international politics and personal life, was to be published last November, but was rescheduled so it would not coincide with a war against Iraq. The date, ironically, was changed to March 18 — one day before the war began.

The book debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times list of best sellers

[KingPin]

I think 9/11 may have had something to do with this "divide" too. These clowns were dancing in the street when we got sucker punched in the gut. Payback is a bitch.

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[secret garden]

Lisa, Lisa, Lisa. Too much time at Princeton, listening to the wrong profs.

[azjatojarhd1ea]

"Muslims are seeing a very aggressive, confrontational side of American foreign policy that's not being balanced, in their minds, by a conviction that it is motivated by American principles, as opposed to economic issues,"

Two things:
1. Finally!! It's what they understand.
2. It doesn't matter the motivation. Anyone who lacks moral principles themselves is going to be unable to see them in others.

[isthisnickcool]

Muslims are seeing a very aggressive, confrontational side of American foreign policy ........

This is a good example of the mindset that says Muslims are not part of any "country", they are part of the combination of all that is Muslim control. Iraq, Iran, etc. are just states of this "muslim-World" they all see?

Radical Islam and likely just plain Islam is the opposite of a Free Republic like the United States. So it's just tough that Miss Queen Blondie does not like it when we get "very aggressive and confrontational" when a group thinks they can destroy what we are. She does not like it that we got in their faces. Good!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Queenie is right. As long as Arab leaders permit and promote a rift, it will get larger. But we have ways of filling those rifts in when necessary.

[PeterPrinciple]

"As long as fighting continues in Iraq, cultural divides between the United States and the Muslim world will continue to deepen, Jordan's Queen Noor says."

You find what you are looking for...........

[Grampa Dave]

The Queen should look at these pictures and visit the newly freed Iraqis.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/889446/posts

Pictures from "VB" Day

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/889446/posts

[goodnesswins]

"Muslims are seeing a very aggressive, confrontational side of American foreign policy that's not being balanced,..."

And, just what was it we saw of certain Muslims on 9-11 - a welcoming gesture?????? Poor Queenie.....picked the wrong country to marry into.

[HumanaeVitae]

Queen Sees greater Arab-American divide

After yesterday's liberation of Baghdad, Humanae Vitae sees the Arab world as a new species of Aramis Cologne-fragranced bum-barnacle attached squarely to Uncle Sam's posterior.

[Lady Heron]

Who cares? Arabs (Muslims) have always hated us. The feeling has finially become mutual after 9-11. You want our respect, fix your civilizations. Finnaly find something to be happy about instead of blamming all your woes on the U.S. and Israel, when you yourselves (and your religion) are really to blame.

[squarebarb]

When will people start challenging these people who pretend to speak for 'Muslims' or 'the Arab World' or 'Americans'? Noor can't possibly speak for the entire Muslim world.

[jnarcus]

Since when do we seek wisdom from Snow White and the Soverign Dwarf?

[Timesink]

Spoken like someone who fully realizes she'll be the second person up against the wall when the revolution comes, right after Rich Hubby. Enjoy the fun while you can, babe, because you're probably going to die at the hands of your Peons.

[Lost Highway]

At her age I am surprised the Queen can see anything.

[Grampa Dave]

The Queen should condemn the Fedayeen Soddomites and other brutal thugs of the Soddomite regime.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889972/posts

MSNBC's Bob Arnott: Iraqi Hospitals Filled Children with Gunshots - From Saddam's Fedeyeen
MSNBC | 4-10-2003


Posted on 04/10/2003 8:26 AM PDT by SHKMAN1212


Bob Arnott was just on MSNBC reporting that he had traveled to many of the hospitals in the area and assisted in the care for the many children in the facilities that have been struck by gunfire (he's also a doctor). He said he was unsure what the mood in the hospitals would be but found the doctors and patients to be "ecstatic" that Saddam was gone. He then said that the gunshots were all made by small caliber weapons that the U.S. Army does not have and, when he inquired further about the cause of the wounds, he was told by parents and hospital staff that the paramilitary forces were shooting kids on purpose to make it look like the U.S. forces were inflicting civilian casualties.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889972/posts

[Antoninus]

For the record, this is Queen Ig-Noor-ant.



She's a former Ms. New Jersey. Can you say "trophy bride"?

I had the misfortune of having her as our commencement speaker for our graduation at a large Catholic university. Her speech was a classic example of vapid socialism/globalism. Here we had a Middle Eastern Muslim beauty-queen trophy-bride monarch lecturing a bunch of American Catholic college grads about social justice. It was surreal.

[Churchillspirit]

I am curious.

Who is Rich Hubby?

[Nonstatist]

Rich hubby is the late, great, King Hussein of Jordan; presently deceased, but almost hardly ever forgotten.