What's wrong with today's Arabs? We've been asleep for five centuries. Not one of our countries is a democracy, not ONE. We have high rates of illiteracy and unemployment and many of us live below the poverty line. We approve of child marriage, flogging, stoning, and a God-given right to physically abuse our wives centuries after these practices were at least theoretically abandoned by the civilized world. Our women are still undereducated and underrepresented in our governments and many are illiterate and don't even know they have rights. Our criticism of everything Israeli and Western while we turn a blind eye to every one of our own faults has won us a notorious reputation for double standards. We brutalized our Jews and 99.5% of them fled, and the Bahais and Christians will follow suit because, apart from Lebanon, none of our countries has a clean religious rights record. And the problem will not change because we refuse to acknowledge its existence.
2007-02-15
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