[lit-ideas] Re: The Reality of Our Image

I do appreciate the fact that, on this occasion,
Lawrence was willing to listen and pay attention. He
sometimes is, more so than some others here. On the
other hand, one should keep in mind the caution that I
expressed before that some of these newspapers are
government-controlled (or at least,
government-supervised) and so they may not accurately
reflect the majority attitudes in those countries.
This will be the case notably with the Saudi Arab News
and also with Pakistan's Daily Times. Lebanon's Daily
Star is pretty much independent I think (although
there are limits to what they would publish, but they
did publish articles critical of the Hezbollah) and
perhaps also the Dubai Gulf News (somewhat too
pro-American for my taste actually). Egypt's Al-Ahram
is government-controlled but sometimes dares to
publish articles moderately critical of the government
and the Middle East Times does although it sometimes
gets into trouble with the government. So it's shades
of grey so to speak. Most of these newspapers, except
perhaps the Saudi, are secular in outlook; my post did
not include the moderate or liberal Islamist websites
since I posted these before when that was the subject.

O.K.


--- John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2/28/07, Lawrence Helm
> <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> 
> >
> >  When I got to the Daily Times from Pakistan, an
> article by Rasul Bkhsh Rais
> > really impressed me. I sent him an email.   You
> can see his response below.
> > I thank Omar for his web sites.   And I must
> confess that I had Dinesh
> > D'Souza's thesis in mind, namely that American
> Conservatives ought to reach
> > out to Islamic Traditionalists.  I don't know
> whether Rasul is a secular
> > moderate or one of the Traditionalists that
> D'Souza had in mind, but it's
> > hard not to be encouraged by his response.
> >
> 
> Reaching out is what it's all about. Good job,
> Lawrence.
> 
> John
> 
> -- 
> John McCreery
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