THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 179, July 23, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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ARAB ATTITUDES
By Alan Caruba
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO MUSLIM ARABS HAVE TO KILL BEFORE WE GET AROUND TO FIGURING OUT THAT ISLAM IS A
MURDEROUS CULT, THE MEMBERS OF WHICH HAVE BEEN KILLING EACH OTHER SINCE THE SUNNI-SHIITE SCHISM SHORTLY
AFTER THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD, AS WELL AS SLAUGHTERING CONQUERED NON-MUSLIMS WHO WOULD NOT CONVERT
TO ISLAM OR PAY EXTORTION TO ISLAMIC REGIMES? THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST AS THE MOST REPRESSIVE &
TYRANNICAL REGION IN THE WORLD -- THE MIDDLE EAST AS THE MOST VIOLENT & WAR-LIKE REGION -- HEZBOLLAH & ITS
THREAT TO ISRAEL & THE WEST
FULL STORY:
According to a recent Zogby poll taken in Arab nations, “The United States is viewed less favorably in much of the Arab
world today than it was during the final year of the Bush administration, and President Obama is less popular in the region
than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
The poll results were released by the Arab American Institute, described as a “nonpartisan research and advocacy group.”
Yeah, I believe that, don’t you? The poll was conducted by the Zogby organization, and James Zogby is the President of
the Institute.
There are Christians and Jews born in Arab nations, but, when I speak of Arabs, it is exclusively those who are Muslim.
The fact is that I don’t believe anything Arabs say on any day about anything. Yes, I am biased, but, as the phrase goes,
“Everything I know about Islam I learned on 9/11.” Mumbai, India has just suffered a second terrorist attack and it really
doesn’t matter who’s specifically to blame because it is Muslims who committed it.
The fact is that, on any given day, you can read headlines or hear stories of Arabs committing murder and mayhem on one
another and on what they call “non-believers.” On Friday, July 15, the Syrian despot was shooting people in the streets
where they were calling for his overthrow. We learned that Osama bin Laden was plotting a 9/11 anniversary attack on the
U.S.A. A bomber struck at the funeral service for the assassinated brother of Afghanistan’s President. And on and on and
on.
How many people do Arabs have to kill before we get around to figuring out that Islam is a murderous cult that has been
killing each other since the Sunni-Shiite schism shortly after the death of Muhammad, and everyone else who would not
convert or pay extortion?
I am also thoroughly sick of a White House and administration that steadfastly keeps trying to get Americans to be more
tolerant and understanding of Muslims, here and abroad. Ask any European what it is like when their Muslim population
reaches a point where it begins to demand that everyone else behave like a Muslim.
Why should anyone be tolerant of the Palestinians when a recent survey revealed that 73% of those surveyed agreed that
Jews, i.e., Israelis, should be annihilated?
Ask them why there are whole sections of major European cities where non-Muslims dare not venture, including the police.
In parts of London and across England, Islamists are creating “Sharia law enforcement zones." As this is written, Muslim
enclaves are being established all around America and, of course, some want to build a mosque within a short walk of
Ground Zero in New York City.
In pretending that Islam is not as much a political entity as it is an alleged "religious" entity, one ignores the obvious.
When not being ruled by or trying to overthrow dictators throughout the Middle East and northern Africa, the track record
for Arab nations is deplorable. In January, 2010, Freedom House released its annual survey of political rights and civil
liberties, Freedom in the World 2010.
Nations that were not ruled by Communists or Socialists, such as Russia, Venezuela and Vietnam, had to jostle for top
dishonors with Bahrain, Jordan, and Kenya. According to Freedom House, “The Middle East remained the most repressive
region in the world,” followed by Africa, which had “suffered the most significant declines.”
“The most repressive region in the world”! And the Arab American Institute tells us to be concerned that “In 2008, only
nine percent of Egyptians had a favorable attitude toward the United States” and that Barack Obama’s popularity “has
plummeted to just five percent. Recall, it was Obama who led off his term with a speech in Cairo, an outreach to the Arabs
of the Middle East.
With considerable irony, similar figures reflected less favorable attitudes toward the U.S.A. in Morocco, Jordan, and the
United Arab Emirates since the end of the Bush administration. According to the poll results, Arabs are more favorable to
Iran these days and it is a theocratic thugocracy.
George W. Bush was under the impression that Iraq could be dragged into being a constitutional democratic nation if the
U.S.A. would do them the favor of capturing Saddam Hussein so he could be hanged by his victims. He also believed that
Afghanistan, a Stone Age nation, could be coaxed into modernity if the U.S.A. just killed enough Taliban.
With considerable irony, Barack Obama has managed to get the U.S.A. involved in a civil war in Libya for the same
purpose, the removal of Muammar al-Qaddafi. He was also quick to demand that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarack step aside.
Obama’s singular “success” in the Middle East has been to assassinate Osama bin Laden.
You can bet that Obama is praying that there isn’t another war against Israel in the remaining months of his first term in
office. He has painted himself into a corner with his obvious animus toward Israel, the first and only U.S. President since
the days of Harry Truman to turn his back on what is clearly the only real ally we have in the Middle East region. He has
reason to fear such a war against Israel, because the decision to wage war will be that of Hezbollah.
Published initially in 2010 and now reissued as a paperback edition by the Free Press, A Privilege to Die by
Thanassis Cambanis, the author reports that “Hezbollah has inculcated millions — including many beyond Lebanon’s
borders — into its ideology of Islamic Resistance, which is coupled to an unusually effective operation program. That
recipe has put Hezbollah in the pilot’s seat in the Middle East, steering the region into a thicket of wars to come.”
If the West does not come to Israel’s defense, it will seal its own doom for generations to come. The Arabs in particular
and 1.3 billion Muslims in general don’t like us much and would like to see a mosque on every corner of every city and
town in America.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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