What's your take on Asia Times? Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The Reality of Our Image Date: 2/28/2007 5:12:07 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _omarkusto@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: 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 > The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN > Tel. +81-45-314-9324 > http://www.wordworks.jp/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, > vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ______________________________________________________________________________ ______ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.