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Lying Is Cultural Trait Of Arabs, Says Barak
The Guardian (UK) ^
| 5-23-2002
| Brian Whitaker
Posted on 05/22/2002 8:24:29 PM PDT by blam
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To: spetznaz
I know what you mean. I worked with a man, an engineer, who had emigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria. He is a Christian and left because of the problems in his home country.
The problem as he saw it was that Islam strangles initiative by demanding conformance, killing anyone who is an independent thinker. Let them in and they will try to take over, subjugating everyone to their demands. In that they're just like fascists.
I never thought of Islam in terms of evil until recently. Any religion or nation that would pay families money for those families' children to commit suicide are, to me, truly evil. They have embraced despair and death over hope and life.
The pictures of the bombed embassy in Kenya was heartbreaking. I know it was cruelly done to try and turn Kenyans against Americans and to make us run back home. Well, we're not cowards and the colors red, white and blue don't run.
To: blam
In California our state recognizes that lying is what they do as part of their culture.
When my sister was divorcing an Iranian (Praise God) she was telling the government person of all the problems with the truth this guy had. He lied everywhere in order to serve his purpose as said in the story.
The government employee said, "Well, lying is part of their country. They rarely tell the truth"!
Our state knows that, my sister was surprised and her jaw dropped to the ground.
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posted on
05/22/2002 11:08:46 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
To: blam
"Truth is seen as an irrelevant category," he says."There is only that which serves your purpose and that which doesn't. They see themselves as emissaries of a national movement for whom everything is permissible. There is no such thing as 'the truth'." This explains why the Left loves them so.
To: keithtoo
They can lie to infidels(non Muslims)
To: Bernard
Why? Is Hillary his first cousin?
To: blam
There is an old joke, it goes like this: The Arabs will lie to please. The English/Americans will lie to get out of trouble. The Russians will lie by habit.
To: blam
There is an old joke, it goes like this: The Arabs will lie to please. The English/Americans will lie to get out of trouble. The Russians will lie by habit.
To: Red Jones
It was funnier the first time.
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posted on
05/22/2002 11:41:08 PM PDT
by
Chunga
To: elmer fudd
I spent about a year working on used car lots as a mechanic for Arabs, Jews and Pakistanis. It soured me on all three groups. They were all among the worst lying thieving bastards I have ever met. Some of us feel the same way about people calling themselves Elmer Fudd
To: keithtoo
Is there no prohibition in Islam against lying? Probably doesn't matter if you lie to an infidel. You're exactly right; they can lie, cheat, rob and kill the infidel.
To: Pistias
I would down four shooters of portofinio with him, and hide his car keys, then go out in the front yard and puke with him, till he passes out... put him on the couch, and talk sense into him, when he is at the disadvantage of a rather severe hangover for the next 18 hours... after he sleeps it off.
By then, the shotgun would be "missing" and we would be going out for beer and more pizza...
After a few days, he would definitely realize he was better off, without her...
To: HardStarboard
...I'm reading "Peace To End All Peace" - a history of the Middle East from 1914 to 1922...
It's one of the great books of modern world history. If you haven't read this one, you can't understand the Middle East.
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posted on
05/23/2002 11:11:04 AM PDT
by
NCDoc
To: Robert_Paulson2
LOL, perfect answer. Point being, you lie to the MF instead of letting him do something you'll both regret...thus, we see that simply saying "lying is bad" is adequate for children or the untrustworthy, but in the real world it's not so cut and dry.
It's but a small leap then to a battle situation, and since taqiyya assumes that all the infidel are actively trying to destroy the faithful (body and soul), if what they say is true then what's wrong with talking out both sides of their mouths?
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posted on
05/23/2002 12:42:28 PM PDT
by
Pistias
To: Pistias
My point was... I would find an honest way to dissuade him WITHOUT lying... and not that I would lie to him. Why say that is an advocation of telling a lie?
There is NO excuse for arabs lying.
Sorry if my willingness to get my friend pukeass drunk, comes across as any form of lying. It's not.
To: blam
"Truth is seen as an irrelevant category," he says."There is only that which serves your purpose and that which doesn't. They see themselves as emissaries of a national movement for whom everything is permissible. There is no such thing as 'the truth'." This is why the Left gets along so well with the Islamists. Both Communism and Islamism have the same contempt for objective truth
To: elbucko
My mother spent her childhood in what was then the Italian colony of Tunisia, in North Africa. She dealt with lots of Arabs, and despises them as being animals.
She would tell me why they wear robes instead of pants: she would see one walking across the street, stop, squat in the street, and continue on leaving a pile of feces where he had been
To: Robert_Paulson2
I would find an honest way to dissuade him WITHOUT lyingNot giving him his stuff when he asks for it is dishonest, isn't it? You promised to give it back when he asked for it...and there's nothing wrong with lying if there's a good reason. If you were captured by the enemy in a battle and questioned, would it be right to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
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posted on
05/23/2002 7:12:29 PM PDT
by
Pistias
To: Pistias
NO... if he did not want me to control it... he should NOT have left it with me. Sorry, saying NO to a friend, is not lying.
To: blam
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