Comments on: Professors discuss Middle East turmoil

By: Arafat

Arafat — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:22:58 +0000

How do the eminent professors explain the following instnaces of Islamic violence?

1) In recent years 5,000 Buddhists killed in southern Thailand.
2) Violence in NW China.
3) Violence in wouthern Russia.
4) Ethnic cleansing of Hindus in their ancient homelands of modern day Pakistan and Bangladesh.
5) Continual killings of black Africans and Animists throughout northern and soon-to-be central Africa.
6) Killings of Chaldeans, Copts, Armenians, Assyrians throughout the Middle East.
7) Killings of Bahai and Zoroastrians in Iran.
8) Sunnis and Shi’ites killing Kurds.
9) Sunnis killing Shi’ites.
10) Shi’ites killing Sunnis.
11) Sunnis and Shi’ites killings atheists.

By: Sad to See

Sad to See — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:49:10 +0000

It really is sad to see such incredibly muddled thinking or “narratives” as the writer of this article would no doubt call it, from professors at what was at one time such a great institution (note its consistently falling rank in US News). For various reasons, the Arab countries have been violent cesspools for at least the last 100 years and to blame that on the United States not intervening there makes no sense at all. Oh, and many of those the reader above recommended by read about Islam are Muslims themselves. Anyway, at least the situation has gotten so bad in so many Arab countries (Syria and Libya spring to mind) that they have been killing themselves which usually serves as the best way to divert them from killing us.

By: Arafat

Arafat — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Chuck,

That’s sweet of you to suggest Mein Kampf. Did you know it is one of the best selling books in many Islamic countries? Thanks for reminding me of this!

But you’re right. It’s me that’s filled with hate, not those who behead Buddhists on a regular basis in Thailand, who gang-rape helpless women in Mali, who cut off the hands of thieves, who commit a slow but steady genocide against Hindus in their native land of Pakistand and Bangladesh, who hang gays, who honor kill women, who slit the throats of baby Jewish children.

How silly of me to be so darn confused. Maybe a down-home-boy like you from Iowa can show me the light. {Sarc/off.}

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:33:20 +0000

Reading books by a bunch of anti-Arab racists will help us make sense of the madness?

Should we be reading the Turner Diaries as well? How about Mein Kampf? Let me guess, you think Innocence of Muslims deserves an Oscar…correct?

By: Arafat

Arafat — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:42:33 +0000

“This conclusion echoed Elfenbein’s previous statements about the necessity of interdisciplinary thinking in today’s complex world.”

Maybe the necessity should be to look at this from a different angle – an angle that actually explains this rationally.

Read books or articles by Robert Spencer, Ibn Warra, Raymond Ibrahim, Andrew Bostom, Bridgette Gabriel, etc…for it is here that a rational and cogent case is laid out which makes sense of this madness.

By: Arafat

Arafat — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:42:32 +0000

“Youssef brought up the American government’s lack of response to 2011’s Arab Spring, positing that there could be underlying resentment of the American government in the Muslim world contributing to the fierceness of the protests.”

Let’s just file this one under “Muslims blame America for everything.”

I guess Youssef is suggesting we should have done more. And what would that have looked like, I wonder? Anytime we send troops we hear we shouldn’t have done this. Everytime we send aid we’re told it’s not enough. Everytime we do this, we’re told we should have done “that” instead.

I have a novel idea. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE have nothing but money and weapons they have bought from us. Certainly they understand what their Muslim brothers want, and it’s clear we never do. Why don’t they solve their brothers problems for a change?

What do you say about this, Youssef?