Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Arab World


A fairly long, scholarly survey of what's transpired in the Arab world and what's brewing today:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=603733. Author, David Ottaway has been a spectator for a long time and was even present when Sadat was assassinated. I guess one could say that the state of affairs is just a bit turbulent and will remain so for a long time. Too many uneducated people and too much influence by those who enjoy channeling jobless young men toward mischief in order to benefit their nut job world view. Also, in my humble opinion, too many educated Arabs around the world who choose not to speak out against the hijacking of both their religion and the future of their native lands.

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