[Billthedrill]

Taheri is absolutely right. However, there exists a strong, violent, and vociferous group of pan-Islamic radicals who do very much behave as if there were a monolithic Arab world united against the West. Many of these are still fighting a rear-guard terrorist campaign in Baghdad - the Iraqis term them "foreigners," which will tell you what their view of pan-Arabianism is. They have money, guns, and domination of the press of the Middle East. They populate al-Qaeda. They do exist, and exercise a power all out of proportion to their numbers.

[ggekko]

90% of the trouble caused in the Arab world originates from "Islamo-Facist" states of Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen. Islamo-Facism is a an authoritarian import from Europe by way of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. For reasons of imperial convenience this figure was installed in Jerusalem between WWI and WWII by the British.

The distorted vision of the Middle East has been greatly facilitated by a Western media mired in neo-marxist theories of imperialism. This distorted vision has until recently given observers of many dysfunctional Arab governments an inexhaustable excuse for the worst sort of human rights abuses and governmental incompetence.

The fall of Saddam's government has revealed a police state of shocking brutality and corruption. The idea that the governments of Iran, Syria, and Yemen would be better able to serve their people if only the "palestinian-Israeli problem" would be resolved is seen to be increasingly ridiculous.