[dufekin]

Medieval Islam was in many ways civilized and much freer than most Arab-world countries today, Israel excepted. In the medieval days, there actually was an Arab intellectual class that didn't find itself killed. Arab societies have taken several steps backward since their medieval splendor.

[TalBlack]

The Soviet Union also broadcast the documentary, with a view to embarrassing the Reagan administration.



See how out of touch the elites of Soviet Russia were with the people? How do you not see such a result coming?

This separation blindness is analogous to the SCOTUS in late times.