Islam - The Scorpion's Shadow - III ( Tashbih Sayyed Must Read Saudi Wahhabism

PakToday ^ | Dec. 6 2002 | Tashbih Sayyed

[swarthyguy]

Man has some of the biggest in the world.

Why has Chris Matthews never had him back on.

Why does Fox ignore him?

Wanna see him debate AlJubeir or Hooper. He's already cleaned Zogby's clock.

[swarthyguy]

Miss World 2002 Azra Akin from Turkey, center, gets a congratulatory kiss from Miss Norway, Kathrine Sorland, left, as Miss Peru Marina Montero looks on after the event in London, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2002

[ellery]

Must-read BUMP!

[marty60]

The only bone I have to pick here is that the Muslim Brotherhood is a ultra-right political and religious organization of ASSASSINS.

[PoisedWoman]

Excellent report. Are there Scorpion Shadows #1 and 2 somewhere?

Have you seen any report on Turkish reaction to Ms World win? Are they proud or ashamed?

You might also be intested in a Gallup poll taken in several ME countries ::
Is Jihad a Holy War, or Internal Spiritual Struggle? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/802992/posts

I've been doing some reading on the Middle East. You might like this quote from an old travel book as it points out one of the worst problems we have in dealing with the Arabs, the language. From: Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth:

"To live in Arabic is to live in a labyrinth of false turns and double meanings. No sentence means quite what it says. Every word is potentially a talisman, conjuring the ghosts of the entire family of words from which it comes. The devious complexity of Arabic grammar is legendary. It is a language which is perfectly constructed for saying nothing with enormous eloquence; a language of pure manners in which there are hardly any literal meanings at all and in which the symbolic gesture is everything...Even to peer through a chink in the wall of the language is enough to glimpse the depth and darkness of that forest of ambiguity. No wonder the Koran is so notoriously untranslatable."

[swarthyguy]

And how's that differentiate them from alqaeda and by extension, the entire saudi establishment, royals and clerics alike.

[swarthyguy]

Scorpions Shadows - search on FR or on his site.

I assume Turks don't mind having a Miss World. Apart from the jihadis.

[swarthyguy]

The points about the language are superb. Some US official once said, lie detectors don't work in certain parts of the world.

When an arab 'ally' tell us he is with us, there are many levels to interpret that statement. And so, we need a muultilayered deciphering tool when trying to understand what our arab allies are really telling us. Hyperbole, innuendo, flights of fancy, rhetorical overkill, hell, Chomsky should write a book on the nuances of Arabic.

[Inkie]

She is gorgeous.

[Turk2]

Its on the front page of every newspaper in the country and at the top of the news on all TV channels. The Prime Minister called her personally to congradulate her and invited her to the Prime Ministry on her return home. His words were:

"Your success has given not only myself but our entire nation great pride."

[Turk2]

An earlier picture:

[PoisedWoman]

US official once said, lie detectors don't work in certain parts of the world.

LOL. Maybe they don't work on liberals or other sociopaths either who don't know the truth from a lie.

[tet68]

She is a real beauty.

[swarthyguy]

Can someone get this man an hour at the WhiteHouse with President Bush? Please.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Allah uaaakkkkk barf.

My Arabic has a Texas twang.

[NeoCaveman]

bttp

[swarthyguy]

And invite this guy over for a briefing to Dubya.

[marty60]

They are openly operating in the U.S. My question is WHY isn't anyone focusing on THAT.

[swarthyguy]

As far as i can tell, it's a hear no evil paradigm that's ascendant where the saudis are concerned.

We've let a whole year go by as the Saudis have out maneuvered the USA with the willing help of ourselves.

Strategery, saying good doggie with a rock, wait after Iraq are all impotent and ineffectual statements.

Even the ptech story has died.

[marty60]

I know, listening to the media follow a bunch of boxes of paper makes my stomach turn.