Why are Arabs so primitive and violent? Will they ever catch up with the west?

Answer 1

I am not so sure they need to catch up with the so-called West anyway.
If you choose to talk about Arabs as being primitive and violent, let me tell you there are enough "Westerners" out there who are at least as primitive and violent.

Answer 2

The people of the middle east and Africa had civilizations that rival the modern world in terms of their advancement, before Europeans figured out how to make fire and to use tools. So if you are of European decent, and you are going to call the people of the middle east primitive, you have just proved my point. If Fox News in your primary means of understanding the middle east, you should not be allowed to operate heavy machinery. And besides, you all would still be living in feces in Europe if the Moors hadn't forced you to become civilized.
All you see on television is a middle east and Africa that have already been destroyed by European conquest. Europe has always been on the backburner of world civilation and will continue to be until it catches up with the rest of world. If you can look at American, British, German, Italian or French history, and the not see countless acts of genocide, depraved indifference to human life, and other such atrocities against all of human kind, you can start debasing the Muslim people of the world. Until that day comes, read a book and tell Bill O'Reilly to do the same.

Answer 3

Some Arabs spend most of their time fighting, plotting, killing, recruiting and praying. The only useful thing that they are doing is praying. They should spend their time building their country and using their resources to provide jobs for their citizens and developing their countries. Arabs will never catch up to the west if they don't wise up and change their policies and learn how to get along with other countries. They have resources that the rest of the world needs, they should be doing much better than they are doing. It is sad that all that natural resource is not being used to become a great nation. However when hate is your motivation it consumes you; to death.

Answer 4

I'm not going to say that Arabs themselves are primitive and violent because they aren't. There are several of them attending universities here and abroad, mostly in engineering and computers.

Anyhoo, you're probably referring to the extemist Islamic terrorist guys. For some reason, they believe the world should be stuck in the 8th century just like them (in the Taliban regime, TVs, kite flying, and singing were prohibitied.....but songs praising allah were condoned).

Answer 5

Having lived in an Arab country I have to say that primitive and vilolent are not words I would use to describe Arabs. There are many things we could learn from them. Do not make the mistake of defining an entire culture by the actions of its criminals. I do not wish to be defined by Jefery Dahmer and Arab culture should not be defined by Mohomed Atteh and Ossama Bin Ladin.

Answer 6

Just like your average American person in the hood huh? Maybe they've been brainwashed and live in a desert and the heat got to their heads. Allahdallah ps. think their are alot of very sophisticated arabs out there too, we just don't know them

Answer 7

What is your problem, last question was the anti-european (and my guess is that you have roots in another part of the world so whatever you say reflect on you) and now it is anti-arabs.

I wish that we could send a small jolt and zap you through your keyboard when you type these nasty things.

Answer 8

I would say their religion and culture is what sets them back 2000 years. They will only catch up if they adopt Western culture and ideas and abandon their backward ways.

Answer 9

Hmm, I think just in the case of breeding and training Arabian horses, I would have to give them respect right there.

Answer 10

Are you talking about Arabs or Muslims, or both? Are you seeing the West as "civilized" as in direct oppostion to those in the Middle East? If so, how would you account for Israelis being more western?

This forwarded letter might provide some answers for you.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD

Dear World, I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel.

Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry.(Outraged?)
Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the "brutal repression of the Palestinians"; yesterday it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily.

Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we - the Jewish people - upset you.

We upset a German people who elected Hitler and upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians and Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset.

We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us. For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit.

And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you (and thus love you)-and have you love us and so, we decided to come home - home to the same land we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.

Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you and your pogroms and inquisitions and crusades and holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor
Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.

Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel.

In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron.Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929.

Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967?
And when you, dear world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967?

And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then? The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who ­ when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of
"itbach-al-yahud" (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not "repress" them.

Dear world, you stood by during the holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres.

You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction.

And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians dream daily of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well ­ think of how many times in the past you bothered us.

In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could care less.