19 February 2013

When An Arab Denounces The Arabs For Their Backwardness, Etc. What Is It He Can't Say?

Every so often, at www.MEMRITV.org, you can see a video of an Arab journalist, or professor, or political figure, who denounces the sorry condition of his fellow Arabs, deplores their miserable state, their plight, their wretchedness, their backwardness, their conspiracy-mentality, their everything.

But what lies behind this vehemence? What is it that that speaker, brave as he may be or seem, cannot speak about?

.... So those Arabs who see that something is wrong, but do not live in the West, and therefore cannot speak the truths that such people as Wafa Sultan or Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak, are not to be taken at face value.

Look behind their denunciation of "the Arabs" to what they are really semaphoring: a denunciation of Islam. [The Iconoclast] Read more