Posted on 08/21/2019 5:21:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, August 20, Interfax - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has asked Russia to help train Russian language teachers for Syria, according to the State Duma's liaison with the Syrian parliament Dmitry Sablin.
"Al-Assad said at a meeting on Tuesday that broader studies of the Russian language in Syria will accomplish an important task of diverting Syrians from Western culture," Sablin told the press over the phone on Tuesday after he met with the Syrian chief of state.
"In the words of al-Assad, the problem of Arab countries is that half of them are influenced by extremist ideas, and the other half is drawn to Western culture," Sablin said.
"This means that some minds are controlled by Wahhabis and others by America. This is the Arab impasse that needs to be solved. The division makes people hate each other. Al-Assad thinks the Syrian government needs to create an alternative, which will distract people from both Western culture and Wahhabism," Sablin said.
"It was noted at the meeting that contacts between our peoples are growing stronger, and many Syrians want to learn Russian, but there is a problem with teachers," he said.
"There are not enough teachers, and it is impossible to expand the scale of Russian language teaching in Syria. Al-Assad has asked us to help solve this problem," Sablin said.
Al-Assad said he understands that "Russia cannot send teachers to every school in Syria, but it could still consider the opening of Russian language centers or courses for Syrians, who could be trained to teach children and students even with basic knowledge of the Russian language," Sablin said.
That’s quite a sandwich to be in: between Globo-Homo and Wahhabism. Tranny Story Hour or 7th Century death cult. Ugh.
He probably doesn’t realize that Russia is part of the dread West. Russian culture is Western, but like Spanish and Irish culture, it skipped certain parts of the English/Northern Continental experience. However, nobody should tell Russia it’s not part of the West.
There is something I find amusing about this. It is almost as if they want the country famous for its porn and crime to be a model to counteract the West...
Well, it will probably be better than Islam anyway.
ANYTHING is better than islam. What I don’t get is why many far Eastern countries like Japan can adapt Western tech and other ideas to it’s culture while the ME is so stuck in the past. I guess I’ll have to break out my Bernard Lewis books again...
Russia, today, is more in tune with Western Civilization than Western Europe is.
I read a great book "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
It talks about how the cultural side of japan really set it up to take advantage of having their clock cleaned by the Americans in WWII. A large portion of their population saw how utterly and completely defeated they were by America, and instead of harboring resentment (at a national level and some personal level) against America, they determined to do what they thought America did right.
Remarkable when contrasted with Islam. The scene Lewis described of Lepanto where a couple of Important and powerful muslims in the Ottoman Empire were examining the wreck of a Spanish vessel, which was so completely superior in every way to the muslim ships, but...they couldn't decide on how much (or even any0 of the obviously superior technology they saw in the wreck could be used by the Ottoman Empire in building new vessels. It was infidel technology, and therefore, tainted and unworthy. Compare that with Japan. Just wow.
It’s all BS. They get the Wahhabism no matter what, as they speak the same native language. Replacing English with Russian as a second language just limits them to mostly Russian propaganda, vs having access to virtually every viewpoint on earth, and deciding for one’s self. Dictators always want to limit access to viewpoints that don’t correlate with their own.
So what? If you’d look closely into Hillary’s and McCain’s Doctrine for the Middle East this move sounds very reasonable. It wasn’t the Russian propaganda which spawned ISIS and restarted Al-Qaeda but the opposite is true.
Simple answer - The Ottoman Empire.
Yep,and its worth considering that if you masree the russian alphabet and basic grammar you can pretty mu h muddle your way through it
If Russia can gradually wean itself from the Cyrillic alphabet, it’ll be easier to read and understand the words. (For what it is). Many words are easily revealed to English speakers.
Baby Eye Doc’s spectacles are fogging over
Russian is, in a practical sense, a useless language.
That country has an economy the size of Denmark’s.
And anyone doing business there has had to learn English in any case.
English, Mandarin, Spanish are the languages you need to know in the world these days.
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