[lit-ideas] Re: Arab popular opinion
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:16:44 -0000
You do love the Mufti don't you...*
Do me a favour and read the Fukuyama article I linked. He disagrees with
your view that Islamic culture is isolated from western influence.
*It was interesting that one Zionist faction approached Hitler proposing an
alliance against the British. Hitler rebuffed them and instead appreoached
the Mufti. Which is worse do you think?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Arab popular opinion
>>Now if, as you suggest, these opinions haven't changed, to me that's
important because it shows that western actions have had no noticeable
positive effect on Arab opinion.
True, they haven't changed. It's hardly important ... because they weren't
expected to change. To pick a glaring example, the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem continued his antisemitism long after his buddy Hitler was dead
and the Waffen-SS troops he helped recruit were disbanded. Did someone
imagine the Western actions in WW2 would change his views?
This is internal to Islamic culture, which at the present, is run by the
wacko fundamentalists. Fundamentalists by nature have all the answers and
thus see no need to change.
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