Sunday, August 13, 2006

Awakening a Conscience ?

Someone in the comment section (probably Craig) asked why did I keep bringing up articles from idiotic westerners and not from Arabs ? He wanted articles from Arabs to pick on and articles from intelligent westerners to pick on hmmm

Well I have been bringing a few articles from time time and even going through the trouble of translating them for you guys to rip each other about them. I can't help that the articles that do not seem to fit your particular line of thought are dismissed as idiotic now can I ? ;)
Anyway here is a short fresh one from last week. I'm back to my usual antics, count that interlude as just that - a freak storm.

Extremely Innocent questions : by the editor in chief of the 'Jamahiriya' daily newspaper issue 4991 dated 2-8-06 ( my translation)

"A few years ago, the Darfur regime was not present on the western mind despite
its geographical presence.Also a few years ago Darfur was NOT in the western
spotlight despite the sun hitting directly on it. Nothing was mentioned about 7
million Sudanese living in an area as large as France, whether Darfur's
inhabitant fought eacht other or not, whether they waged wars against each other
or not or whether the disputes about grazing grounds and water sources took
place or not.

Yet neither Paris, or Washington, or London or anyone new what was
happening within the history tunnel, and maybe no one wanted to know.
That is we must question the Darfur file and this 'sudden' great Western
concern about it .
Is it a case of a sudden love by the West towards this region?Why has this conscience been swallowing sleeping pills for mor than half a century while Palestine was screaming in its ears ?
Why has the western conscience unexpectedly woken up?and most importantly where was this conscience which is now making a racket regarding Darfur... why does it not open it's eyes regarding Lebanon?

What is Israel doing now will enable Hitler, Genkhis Khan and Nero to obtain a certificate of good behaviour. "

5 comments:

Highlander said...

NBA, well that was the point of this post , Craig wanted to see some 'idiotic' articles ...

Having said that not everything is idiotic in this OpEd. Just as selective are Arabs in the importance of Darfur vs Palestine, so can the West be accused of the same 'sin'.

I actually think that the West does not even have to care about both.

I'll let it rest at that not wanting to go into the you know what topic .

Actually Darfur is much covered in the Libyan newspapers because it is in Africa and we are African too and because Libya through the African Union has been trying to broker a peace deal for many years now and has been airlifting aid to the refugees on a constant basis. I have no idea how the peace process is progressing because the news get conflicting depending on whose propaganda you read the West or the ME or Africa but I'm hoping things can be settled...

Maya M said...

When the usually moderate Non-blogging unsheathes his sword and writes a text which can be mistaken for one written by Programmer Craig, Tommy or me, be sure his opponent is really idiotic :).
The good thing in the cited op-ed is that Hitler is implied to be a bad man.
Not all Arabs thought so. At http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22637, examples are given of Palestinian men named Hitler. Their fathers liked Hitler so much that couldn't think of a better name for their cute babies!
I guess there have been even more such babies. As said F. Zakaria (http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/122401_how.html), "When Adolf Hitler was on the rise and advancing in the 1930s, tens of millions of people in Europe and around the world admired his strength and vision. (Young children from Latin America to Turkey were named Adolf in his honor.) Once Nazism was destroyed, they quickly abandoned his cause. (The children were given new names.)"

Highlander said...

Maya , many changed their name from Sadam to Mohamed ( or other Arab name) after the US invasion on Iraq, I understand about the name issue.
Most Libyans I know think Hitler is bad, however they think that Bush too is bad ;)

programmer craig said...

Boy, this guy is really a retard isn't he? Thanks, Highlander :D

He doesn't even know Ghengis Khan is not remembered in history as a bad guy, does he? No more than Alexander teh Great is considered a bad guy. Perhaps he confuses Ghengis Khan with Attila the Hun aka The Scourge of God? Now THAT was a bad guy!!

Highlander said...

Out of topic but still interesting ....Ghenkhis Khan's grandchildren went native and became Muslims...

1220 Muslim cities start falling under his feet.

"On the other hand, the Mongol invasion was not entirely negative for the Islamic world. Perhaps the most significant achievement for the Muslims under Mongol rule was their ability to absorb the Mongols into their Islamic culture, rather than allowing its destruction at Mongol hands. This feat can be seen in the triumph of the Islamic faith over Mongol shamanism and Buddhism. It had occurred so quickly, in fact, that only 40 years after the fall of the Abbasid caliphate in 1258, the Mongols responsible for it had themselves adopted Islam as the official religion of their empire".

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/mongols/ilkhanate.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire