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Arab World’s Main Exports Are Hatred And Violence
At least since the early part of the 20th century, aside from oil, the Arab world has produced and exported two products.
It has produced essentially no technology, medicine or anything else in the world of science. It has almost no contributions to world literature, art or to intellectual development.
According to the most recent United Nations Arab Human Development Reports (2003-05), written by Arab intellectuals, Greece, with a population of 11 million, annually translates five times more books from English than the entire Arab world, population 370 million.
Nor is this a new development. The total number of books translated into Arabic during the past 1,000 years is less than Spain translates into Spanish in one year.
ArabianBusiness.com reports that about 100 million people in the Arab world are illiterate. And three quarters of them are 15 to 45 years old.
As for Arab women, the situation is even worse. Nearly half of the Arab world’s women are illiterate, and sexual attacks on women have increased since the Arab Spring, as have forced marriages and trafficking.
And the exact number of women murdered by family members in “honor killings” is not knowable. It is only known to be large.
In Egypt, the largest Arab country, 91% of women and girls are subjected to female genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. Not to mention the number of women in the Arab world who must wear veils or even full-face and full-body coverings known as burkas.
And, of course, Saudi Arabia is infamous for not letting women drive a car.
Another unhappy feature of the Arab world is the prevalence of lies. To this day, Egypt denies that it was the Egyptian pilot, Ahmed El-Habashi, who allegedly crashed an EgyptAir jet into the ocean deliberately. Vast numbers of Arabs believe that Jews knew of the 9/11 plot and avoided going to work at the World Trade Center that day.
So, then, is there anything at which the Arab world has excelled for the past two generations? Has there been a major Arab export?
As it happens, there are two: hatred and violence.
The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred — of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its twin, Jew-hatred, are the oxygen that the Arab world breathes.
Two of the most popular songs in Egypt over the past decade have been “I Hate Israel” and the ironically named “I Love Israel.” Lyrics of the latter song include:
“May it (Israel) be destroyed. May it be wiped off the map. May a wall fall on it. May it disappear from the universe. God, please have it banished. May it dangle from the noose. May I get to see it burning, Amen. I will pour gasoline on it. I am an Egyptian man. I am not a coward.”
“I Hate Israel” is so popular that it was the song that Egypt’s pop star Chaaboula sang at the largest music festival in the Arab world, Morocco’s Mawazine. The festival, one of the biggest in the world, featured Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin and Kool and the Gang.
Some of the lyrics:
“I hate Israel, and I would say so if I was asked to. Two faces of the same coin, America and Israel. They made the world a jungle and ignited the fuse. About that (Twin) Tower, oh people. Definitely! His friends (Israel) were the ones who brought it down.”
The other major Arab product and export has been violence.
It is difficult to overstate the amount of brutality in the Arab world. Mass murder and cruelty have characterized the region.
Regarding Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Dexter Filkins, the New York Times correspondent in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, wrote:
“Here, in Hussein, was one of the world’s indisputably evil men: He murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead.”
Syria, too, has been a country of mass murder, torture and brutal totalitarian rule — under the rule of Hafez Assad (in power from 1971 to 2000), and his son, Bashar, the current killer-dictator who, among other atrocities, used Sarin gas against his own people in 2013.
In the ongoing Syrian Civil War, according to the United Nations, from March 15, 2011, to April 30, 2014, 191,000 Syrians, a third of them civilians, were killed.
In addition, 2.5 million people have escaped Syria to neighboring countries, and 6.5 million have fled their homes within Syria.
In Algeria in the 1990s, Islamist terrorists engaged in wholesale murder of their fellow Algerians. That war cost Algeria about 100,000 lives, mostly civilian.
In Sudan, the Arab government’s atrocities against the non-Arab population in the region of Darfur led to about 300,000 deaths and over a million refugees.
In addition was systematic rape of untold numbers of non-Arab women by Arab gangs known as the Janjaweed.
Then there was the terror unleashed by Palestinians against Israeli civilians in restaurants, at weddings, on buses, etc. The Palestinians are the modern fathers of terrorism directed solely at civilians.
There are two possible reactions to this description of the Arab world.
One is that it is an example of anti-Arab “racism.” That would be the reaction in much of the Arab world, on the left and among most academics — despite the fact that the description is of a culture and that the Arabs are not a race.
The other is that it is tragically accurate. That would be the reaction of some in the Arab world and anyone who cares about truth.
One such individual is an Arab. In Politico Magazine two weeks ago, Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief of Al Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite channel, titled his article “The Barbarians Within Our Gates.” The subtitle is “Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.”
Islamic State, which is overwhelmingly Arab, is just the latest manifestation.
39 Comments on "Arab World’s Main Exports Are Hatred And Violence"
mo on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 8:37 am
You asshole! Look back at Christion history and see all the killing and tourture that took place in the name of Jesus. And how many millions have died in all the proxy or direct wars America and the west have been involved in? Articles like this just propagate hatred. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!! You asshole
paulo1 on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 9:00 am
re: “Here, in Hussein, was one of the world’s indisputably evil men: He murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead.”
And who supported him for years? He was just fine until he started screwing with oil availability, then he was not.
Paulo
ronpatterson on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 9:07 am
Mo, you are correct, Christian history is every bit as bad as the Islamic present. In fact, it was a lot worse. During the inquisition people were routinely tortured and often burned at the stake.
But that was the dark ages when all the world was in the grip of superstition and ignorance. That is not the case anymore and the present, this is the age of enlightenment, the age when people are not supposed to behave in such a manner anymore. Unfortunately a fanatical few still do.
The main problem with this article is that it tells the truth. And in this age of political correctness that can be dangerous.
Dave Thompson on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 9:13 am
The truth is that the USA and Co. is and has been bombing the shit out of brown people around the world for a long time. When bombs go boom people get upset and angry.
bobinget on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 9:44 am
Ask yourself, ‘what’s the point of distributing articles
such as the one above?’
We know perfectly well WHY such trivia is written.
Jews, I’m one, in particular the current right wing government of Israel need to portray Arabs as evil,
sub-humans so as to partially vindicate 40 years of war crimes perpetrated on Palestinians.
In fairness this trope could have easily been slapped together by some dark hearted Iranian blogger. Such is Mideast hatred.
Ignorance is no excuse for violence masked as religious duty. We should however, give plenty of credit to oil and oil’s loyal consumers in a non Arab world.
As for republishing… Perhaps our editors felt the need
to promote controversy. Perhaps… get a dialog going,
whatever.. Next time editors, substitute your own political, religious beliefs for the intended target of
this sort of guided missile. Ask yourselves if it will help peace to further distribute this hate filled leaflet.
Plantagenet on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 10:06 am
Christian nations are bombing Muslim countries. Muslim countries aren’t bombing Christian ones
Northwest Resident on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 11:22 am
Western nations, America being one of the main ones, have played a key role in keeping the Arab nations subdued and under the thumb of military power. IF ONLY those Arabs had been willing to play ball with the West — give up their tribal cut throat, jihadist ways and just Westernize their attitudes — then we would have been able to spend so much more money in getting them educated and integrating them into the global consumer society. But they refused to “play ball”, they maintained their medieval cut throat mentalities and in so doing painted bright red targets on their asses. They refused to be assimilated, and relegated themselves to perpetual enemy status. The bottom line is that The West was going to get all that Arab oil one way or another — with or without the Arab people’s consent. They chose the way of pain — they chose to remain mired in their barbaric and medieval lifestyles, and they have and still are paying the price.
action on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 11:28 am
Blind faith in scribblings of people who lived a couple thkusand years ago, and not being open or aware of observed facts and evidence, results in hatred and violence. Religion is a virus. Its destructive because it keeps people in a child like state of belief and acceptance without factual evidence, cutting off the individuals process of questioning and reasoning, of learning and forming a perspective on life, one free to grow and transform.
Newfie on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 11:44 am
The Arab world is kept stupid by their religion. Islam is a virus of the mind. It is a very destructive virus. Once embedded in the mind, it destroys the ability to reason. Arabs are infected from the moment of birth. So it’s hopeless.
JuanP on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 11:55 am
Action “Blind faith in scribblings of people who lived a couple thkusand years ago, and not being open or aware of observed facts and evidence, results in hatred and violence. Religion is a virus.”
When I left the church, I used to say this to people that quoted the Bible to me because I didn’t attend mass anymore and was considered a heretic, “I’ll be Goddamned if I ever let some Godforsaken superstitious, illiterate, ignorant shepherding MF that lived in the Middle East millenia ago tell ME how to live my f…ing life” LOL. It usually put a quick end to an unwanted conversation.
Northwest Resident on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 11:58 am
Newfie — Some of the greatest scientific and mathematical minds are (and were) Islamic, so I wouldn’t blame the Islam religion specifically. Like Christianity or any religion, evil people bend and twist the meaning to justify whatever it is they want to do. I would argue that we have some very Taliban-like individuals and groups in America that have twisted Christianity to produce pretty much the same hate-and-violence prone belief system that the jihadists have cultivated. We’re just a lot better at keeping those radical groups under control in America, for now…
Davy on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 12:21 pm
Newfie the radical Muslims may have an evolutionary advantage to the civilized westerner. Primitive will transition better than complex. The corn pone southern red neck may prevail over the Hamptons snob and meek suburban smuck. I see the primitives taking over like what happen post Roman Empire. NR has a point when Islam was allowed to flourish the Arabs and Muslims were highly advanced. When an Islamic power takes over and establishes stability they settle down to the good life. With the good life generally comes knowledge. It is when the Muslim natives are in caves is when they are unstable and deadly
PrestonSturges on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 12:27 pm
..The corn pone southern red neck may prevail over the Hamptons snob and meek suburban smuck.
And the cockroaches, don’t forget the cockroaches.
noobtube on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 12:28 pm
“I’ll be Goddamned if I ever let some Godforsaken superstitious, illiterate, ignorant shepherding MF that lived in the Middle East millenia ago tell ME how to live my f…ing life”
That sounds like something I have said.
I wish the world had a reset button where these religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism) were wiped from the face of the Earth.
Has the world seen such a collection of hate-filled, violent, brutal, self-important, genocidal, xenophobic, intolerant collection of belief systems at any other point in human history?
Kenz300 on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 12:35 pm
Violence, hatred and intolerance………
That sums it up……….
Davy on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 1:23 pm
Noob skywalker, you yourself have chosen the dark side of the force with your mentor Yoda Mak. The dark side of the force will consume you Noob Skywalker beware. Yoda Mak is consumed already. You are young and naive you still have a chance Noob Skywalker.
Woof woof
^!^
ghung on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 1:28 pm
Noob: “I wish the world had a reset button….”
It’s a chicken/egg thing, Noob. Religion is just one way we justify the things we do; a sorry-assed way of excusing our treatment of one another. “If God be for us, who can stand against us”, and all that. We have plenty of ways, not just religion, to sanction our own bad behavior.
The religion of growth and progress has largely replaced the primary role of the world’s religions in the west. Not surprising that the author didn’t mention that.
Keith_McClary on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 1:33 pm
It’s not all Muslims, it’s mostly those who are sitting on “our petroleum lifeline” or on the Biblical homeland of the Israelites.
kervennic on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 2:04 pm
The west obviously the jihad to curb its carbon emission. It might save us more surely than IPCC reports and climate summit.
Akhbar allah 😉 And blow Gawar if you can.
GregT on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 2:15 pm
ronpatterson said:
“That is not the case anymore and the present, this is the age of enlightenment, the age when people are not supposed to behave in such a manner anymore. ”
My take? The Age of Enlightenment is over.
Welcome, to the new Age of Endarkenment.
http://www.clubofrome.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ValuesQuest-Graeme-Maxton-The-Age-of-Endarkenment.pdf
Richard Ralph Roehl on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 2:45 pm
Ah yesssssssss! The truth is ugly.
Arab culture, rooted in a backwards 7th Century religious belief, is a paragon example of collective psychopathic behavior that dooms humanity to suffer a major EXTINCTION EVENT before the end of the 21st century.
Hatred… intolerance… ignorance… sexism… racism… deceit… and barbarous violence are the primary contributions of Islamic culture. Arab culture (Islamic culture) suffers an inherent DNA flaw for criminal insanity.
Davy on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 2:45 pm
Greg, I just call it the dark period.
JuanP on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 3:23 pm
Noob, Yes, I know where your rants come from because a part of me is like that, too. But I don’t do things like that anymore, I just live my life in peace and try to avoid the people that bother me. That’s what I migrated for, peace. I grew tired of arguing and fighting, maybe it will happen to you, too. I’m 45, my guess is you are much younger than I am. Age slows you down. 😉
action on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 4:09 pm
Gods change over time as new information is known and the human psyche rolls over to the next perspective that helps make sense of things better. This is true individually and in mass. Indoctrinated mass religion based on writing that is thousands of years old is outmoded. Why is it so hard to believe that morality comes from human beings and does not have to be bestowed to us by a God. Evolution actually favors cooperative behavior if you want to look at it from that angle, things do better in groups, why would we be different. It is abussive to raise a child in a religion without allowing knowledge of other facts of life, serious psychiatric problems can ocurr later in life. The child needs to be allowed to question and pursue interests. Children automatically take what adults say as truth as an evolutionary means so that they dont need to exleriment with known dangers. So then the religion tries to keep them children in mind with a mentality driven solely by belief. Its pathetic and dangerous. And to think tberes billions of them….
Harquebus on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 4:46 pm
Religion is the enemy and only when it is defeated will there be peace and by “religion”, I mean all religions.
Davy on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 5:06 pm
Harqu, we are the enemy of ourselves. Forget religion that is minor compared to human civilization itself.
Herr Meier on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 5:46 pm
Muslim are retards, yet the west keeps importing them wholesale. Could it be that the west is even more stupid than muslims? It almost seem like it.
Makati1 on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 8:16 pm
The subject is well covered by the above comments. It appears the numbers are shifting away from the ‘exceptional’ country. “Unfortunately, those Arabs have the West’s oil under their sand, so they must go.”
I find it interesting that Muslims and Christians/Jews, have the same God. But then, if you look at Jewish and Christian history, especially recent, … it drips of blood.
“…hate-filled, violent, brutal, self-important, genocidal, xenophobic, intolerant…” Thanks for the words, noobtube.
Muslims fight for their religion. The West fights for money and power under the guise of religious ‘right’. On this one, if anyone survives, it will be the Muslims, not the greedy West and their wannabees.
Davy on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 8:22 pm
woof woof
^!^
Welch on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 8:56 pm
Northwest –
Are you sure of your claim of notable scientific achievements made by Arabs? I am not aware of any major scientific discoveries of the past 120 years made by Arabs.
Northwest Resident on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 9:12 pm
Welch — Yeah, it’s probably been a while. No argument there. The Islamic and Arab world has kind of gone downhill since their heyday. Too much religious fundamentalism is my guess — just a guess, I’m no history expert.
Northwest Resident on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 9:24 pm
“…if you look at Jewish and Christian history, especially recent, … it drips of blood.”
Sure, Makati1, take a look. But while we’re at it, just to be “fair and balanced”, let’s take a look at “recent” history of a few of your favorites too:
China: Some 1.5 million people were killed during the Cultural Revolution, and millions of others suffered imprisonment, seizure of property, torture or general humiliation.
Russia: Millions dead and millions more falsely imprisoned, tortured and worked like beasts in Russia’s gulags.
Japan: A few hundred thousand killed in “the rape of Nanking” — many more were raped and brutalized, children included. And that was just in Nanking. What did they do to the Philippine people?
Islamic world — Death and rape and mutilations and repression on a daily basis since the beginning of time.
Makati1 — Official pointer-outer of faults with America. He will walk through a burning forest of evils around the world to point at one little spark of evil in America, and he’ll jump up and down and scream and yell to make sure everybody sees that little spark of evil while the rest of the world burns.
Disgusting. Stupid. Totally biased.
One thing we know for sure and that is if America’s enemies came to Maktai1 for aid and assistance, he would LEAP at the opportunity to cause death and harm in America — because that is ALL.. HE.. THINKS.. ABOUT.
Apneaman on Wed, 1st Oct 2014 10:08 pm
“But that was the dark ages when all the world was in the grip of superstition and ignorance.”
That was Europe, not the world. When European Christians were putting the remaining pagans to the sword the Islamic world was in it’s scientific and cultural golden age. They showed a tolerance towards other “people of the book” the west did not reach until the 19th or 20th century. In addition, without their advances in science, especially math, we might not have the modern world. Ever here of Algebra-(al-jebr) or Al-Khwarizmi? Al-Khwarizmi was a great Muslim mathematician and Algorithms are named after him. It’s a fascinating period of history that has been largely written out, for obvious reasons. You do not get the renaissance and the so called scientific revolution with out the Islamic age of science. Ironically, it was religious fundamentalism that helped end that age. They had religious men bashing and denying science (sound familiar?). It destroyed their age and they have never recovered. Like the middle east, America has it’s own problem of millions of angry, broke, testosterone fueled young men with no future prospects. Articles like this one are designed to divert anger from the crimes of TPTB. They are playing upon your inherent tribalism. It’s a great recruiting strategy; get them marching off to war in distant lands before they start marching in the streets at home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
Davy on Thu, 2nd Oct 2014 5:17 am
N/R, thank you for the reference to Yoda Mak and his distortions. I rarely find his comments of value because of the distortion by the anti-American propaganda. We get facts out of place. We get biased criticism with alternative praise that is truly unbalanced and manipulative. It is the daily and excessive American insults that get old. The daily praise for the Asian region and the insignificant Philippians gets old. Asia has no claim to being better to any other world region. In fact his region is doing all the actions most of us here are disturbed with namely excessive consumption and population overshoot. This is true the world over but it is in Asia that it is growing and accelerating. The west has gone into natural decline with population and consumption. This western decline will continue. It has far to go and is still excessive but it is in decline. Is that not what we here think needs to happen? You just don’t turn this process on and off. History is a difficult area to analyze and criticize. It is even more difficult to use history to analyze the future. Yoda Mak clearly has cognitive dissonance and delusional fantasy. His cognitive dissonance is his belief that all will be well in an obscenely overpopulated series of islands of the Philippians in an obscenely over populated region of Asia. Asia can’t even feed itself is that something to crow about? His delusional fantasy is that an old man in his 70’s can go off into a jungle mountain hideaway and survive very long. I have never claimed my prepping will pay off only that anything is better than nothing. He smugly claims he will prosper and we Americans will be destroyed. The destruction he preaches is so numerous it borders on a religion. We are nearing an inflection and true paradigm change that will influence all regions in ways related to the region’s comparative advantages and disadvantages. How and when this change will occur are critical. The degree and duration is critical. The point of reboot is critical. All these factors are unanswerable at this point. We can discuss possibilities and details of those possibilities. At this point the blame game is a waste of time. Only using per capita justifications for consumption are not valid in the quest for answers to excessive global consumption. I accept the American critique. Much is wrong with America but excessive focus on the US is not the answer. This is a global issue now with all regions playing a part. Anyone that thinks the US power diminishment is separate from the totality of the control of globalism is superficial. Globalism is the true control feature now. America is a multipolar part of the global system that developed out of US ascendancy. All regions and nations are conjoined now in globalism. We will live and die together. Yoda Mak is doing a disservice to our attempt at understanding the fracturing of this globalism and its systematic influence on all of us in our little worlds called home.
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Oct 2014 6:35 am
NWR, but they did it to their own people, not sovereign countries with no possibility of damaging the US. The Chinese had a revolt that changed it all. Not going to happen today in any Asian country, especially China.
However, the US has killed many millions over the last 20 or so years and are still killing by the thousands daily. Men, women and children, not soldiers. No difference in the eyes of the Empire. Spent nuclear munitions scattered all over Iraq and who knows where else, slowly killing with cancers. Currently bombing Syrian grain silos so that Syrian children starve. Not much different than the Israelis and the West Bank or Genghis Kahn.
All I can say is: “What goes around, comes around”. The West deserves what is coming and it ain’t going to be pretty. Every bomb they drop adds to the hate of the rest of the world against the Empire. But then, maybe that is the plan of your masters?
antiwarforever on Thu, 2nd Oct 2014 6:46 am
The problem with this piece is that the OP conveniently forgets to mention that it is the US which initially financed the Arab fundamentalists/islamists…
theedrich on Thu, 2nd Oct 2014 5:33 pm
Actually, the writer of the above article is 100% right, the Arabophilic commenters notwithstanding. Mohammedanism is a savage animalistic cult whose main aim is the utter termination of all evolution. Even more than Christianity, “Submission” seeks the complete degradation and diminution of the human species, as the author has intimated. The West is, frankly, impotent in the face of it, despite the moralistic babble slithering out of the mouth of Obama & Co. America is little more than a genosuicidal, semi-White organization which glories in the destruction and enslavement only of high civilizations such as the Confederate States of America, Germany or Japan. Its elites cannot fathom the demonic ferocity of parasitic creatures who do not care about the material goodies so important to Yankeeland and its vassals.
As for the Jews, they are mostly quite suicidal; repeatedly they claim to want to live “in peace” with Mohammedan murderers. And in America, they vote in overwhelming numbers for a presidential candidate who bows to Arabian potentates and surreptitiously snubs the leaders of the Jewish state. Some people never learn.
In the best of all possible worlds, there is nothing wrong with Arabian religion that a couple of hundred thermonuclear bombs would not cure, starting with Mecca at the time of a Hajj. But this is not such a world. Instead, ISIL and its competitors are acting as magnets drawing devotees of Allah (and even Yahwéh) into their many vortices. The Western media — largely under Jewish control — will continue to feed sob-sister stories to their readership about how the Mohammedan countries just need more nation-building assistance from the declining West. A parasite-importing West that has lost its power to excrete.
Perhaps Allah is using his pious followers to reduce the earth’s overload of materialistic eco-devastators. The planet has never been so endangered by any species since Precambrian times. We are entering new evolutionary territory.
Kenz300 on Thu, 2nd Oct 2014 7:21 pm
Violence, hatred and intolerance ……….
is this religion………..
Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Oct 2014 12:58 am
“a couple of hundred thermonuclear bombs” Not even that many would end everything and everyone you know; your kids, parents, siblings, friends everyone. That truly is some powerful and selfish hate you got there theedrich. You would be perfect fit for ISIS.