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I don't know if I believe that someone from that area of the world would actually acknowledge blame. Is this from the Onion??? Someone ought to let the Chinese press know before they print this report!!

Per capita income is dropping in the Arab world, even as it rises almost everywhere else. Productivity is stagnant; research and development are almost absent. Science and technology remain backward. Politics is infantile. And culture, in thrall to Islamic fundamentalism and closed to the ideas that quicken the intellectual life of the rest of the world, is “lagging behind” advanced nations, Hunaidi says.

See, that's what I'm saying.

The contemporary Arab world is like the old communist domain of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, with its political and intellectual tyranny. We should accept that, and then adopt the same unyielding resolve to oppose governments that lie, oppress, and murder—until they totter and fall from their very own corrupt weight. There was a silent majority yearning to be free behind the Iron Curtain, and so we must believe that there is also one now, just as captive, in an unfree Middle East.

I've been saying since last fall that George W. Bush will do for the Middle East and Arab world what Ronald Reagan did for Eastern Europe..........tear down the tyranny and bring freedom to the region.

Although the Soviet Union was an organized and massive oppressor, communism did not breed the fanatical hatred now widespread in the Islamist world.

The task will be huge, but the enemy states will fall like dominoes, one by one. Afghanistan was first. Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia will follow in succession, hopefully, faster than we think!!

The use of democratization, as a wepon against Islamism, must extend beyond the so-called palestinian corridor that W identified in his recent speech. It must be extended to all of Islam to become the norm within Muslim society. Historically, Islam has largely not been up to the challenge of the true revolution that democratization would bring to it. But if it won't adapt, it may then have to be deconstructed as a viable means to "faith", for Judeo-Christian civilization cannot abide the descent in chaos which even our own liberal elites would bring upon us through the gradual, and relentless degradation and eventual disintegration of western values that drives their direct, and Islamism's transposed hate.

.........confirms the deep pathology gripping the Arab world..............

........'bout damn time someone held a mirror up to these clowns. Unfortunately, does anyone think this study will get the 'press' it deserves in THE SAUDI HERALD, THE BAGHDAD TIMES, TEHRAN DAILY, and the DAMASCUS POST?

See: Islam - Study Warns of Stagnation in Arab Societies, New York Times, July 2, 2002, by Barbara Crossette (posted by swarthyguy).

See: [Arab] Businessmen hit out at US move to target Saudis, Arab News, July 1, 2002, by Dhafir Al-Julfan (posted by SJackson).

See: Are too many Muslims in denial about September 11?, The Telegraph (U.K.), by Barbara Amiel, Mar. 4, 2002 (posted by Pokey78).

See: The Saudi Pipeline Petro-Dollars, Palestinian Terror -- And A U.S. Blind Eye, National Review, July 15, 2002, by Joel Mowbray (posted by habaes corpussel).

And: U.S. Sudan Ambassador Confirms Clinton Snubbed Bin Laden Deal, NewsMax.com, July 2, 2002, by Carl Limbacher (posted by NormsRevenge).

Said Tim Carney:

"In fact, what was offered (by the Sudanese) was to expel bin Laden to Saudi Arabia ... and the Saudis, because he was such a hot potato, simply refused to handle him,"

In Saudi Arabia, the leadership, in general, are revolting from the decadence which they believe to have resulted from the peoples' too close a proximity to the American media [generation]. As such, the leaders feel threatened by "Americanization." The Saudis, however by their methods, seem to be intent upon committing suicide in the name of trying to "save" their Royal butts from "Western Culture."

Furthermore, the Saudis are afraid that the communist-supported fascist-Islamic revolution which over-threw the Shah of Iran, has grown enough in Arabia to over-throw the House of Saud.

Also, the Saudis figured to appease Saddam Hussein, whenafter the last throw of cruise missiles by Bill Clinton's attempt to diffuse the concentration of the American public upon his Impeachment Trial in the U.S. Senate ... Saddam appeared, at the minimum, to win ... and so the Saudis upped the price of oil as tribute to Saddam.

In a similar vein, the Saudis are attempting to appease the fascists among their neighbors, among their subjects, and among themselves --- by attacking western culture and the United States of America.

When the Saudis ought to be busting their butts, to gather up all the Taliban and Al-Qaeda before they do further harm ...